A Few Words

"Hauke!" Ashlynn cried, jumping down from her throne and stumbling down the icy steps of the dais in her haste to reach the young Frost Walker's side. All thoughts about her dignity as the Mother of Trees, her role in presiding over the trial and the path she'd been carefully building toward the future left her mind as she focused on the only thing that mattered. Her friend.

Odette moved just a handful of seconds later, similarly abandoning decorum at her son's first sign of movement since they brought his listless, unresponsive body into the room. Seeing him like that had crushed what little resolve she had left, but now she cast aside all of her worries as she dashed across the icy floor to join the Mother of Trees at her son's side.