“What do you want to hear?” She managed to sound calm. “With what offering should I start?”

“Friend and the enemy. How they came to earn those titles? Who were they?” he sat at the altar, taking two braids. One blonde with just a shade of red, other, long and thick, black but glistening with blue.

“My name is Ardeni, fifth daughter of the seventh house of Lagredda. Our house is hunting beasts on many continents and I was sixteen when my father decided I am old enough for my first hunt. He took me to Tanragar mountains, well equipped and prepared for a long hunt. I wanted my first prey to be something special. And he knew that if I am in danger, I can step through the void right home.

What none of us knew that I will be too stubborn and too stupid. But, that is not an interesting story. I underestimated cold, I never before experienced it, so even when it was not comfortable, I stubbornly pushed through, ignoring my chattering teeth, ignoring everything. To the moment when I collapsed.

I woke up in warm water, with the kriggari girl taking care of me. She found me in the snow and carried me to her home, a few kilometres in the mountains. I always thought kriggari hate us, or fear us, thanks to all draveii raids on their villages. But she did not care for race, she found a freezing girl and took care of her. And as I was putting myself together, we talked.