It wasn't easy for Ashlynn and Loman to relax and talk as they once had. As much as Ashlynn wanted to move on to safer topics of conversation, Loman was proving to be as prickly as Jacques on a cold day.
She'd thought that talking about her travels would help Loman understand the Eldritch as people, rather than as a nebulous threat, and she'd started by talking about the High Pass and the meal she shared with the Frost Walkers.
After all, despite everything that had happened after the feast, the chance to dine on sturgeon and caviar in a great hall made entirely of glittering ice had been an extraordinary introduction to the Eldritch world, and up until the attack by Tuscans who were hunting Hauke for his iridescent horn, the fishing trip on the frozen lake had been genuinely fun.
Loman, however, grew agitated as she began describing the way the Frost Walkers used the power of their horns and sorcery to shape the harshest environment she'd ever seen into something wondrous.
