The air was, yes, very heavy. Harboring a heat and thickness of fog even in winter months which the northern woman had not ever felt in all her life and in these moments, she realized just how little she knew this magical world and all the wondrous things beyond the towering cold mountains which was Northfall. A curiosity which pulled at her like strings in ways it had her father before her. Though also, like her father, she held now the weight of responsibility, of duty and, even more like her father, a selfishness to have it all. And that precisely was why she was here.

There had been one thing missing in her life, which she had tried and tried again to have, but time and failures had led Wardruna to believe she could not longer trust the idea of a happy love-life and marriage in mortals. Instead, she would seek the magic of the world and it's gods.

You ready? A rhetorical question as ever. Sreda Callosum did not feel fear or at the very least did not allow the pleasure of any mortal to know if it. If something was dangerous, if something was beyond knowledge and understanding, magical and otherworldly, Wardruna could trust that Sreda would be at her side without question or consequence.

Wardruna had been compelled by magic and gods before, so when the thought lingered there that an offering need be made to this Tree of Life, the Norse Queen would so give it.

Before the two lovers even in death, Wardruna would come to lay down before them, her front legs stretched out and opened enough that she might tuck her muzzle to her chest and touch her head to the earth. The ground seemed to pulse there with energy, or was this the heavy beat of her own chest?

To the Gods of Old, to the Gods of the Norður, All Mother of the Pentacle and the great guardian of Mythris, hear us. We pray to you, we give our worship and offering. Wardruna would lift her head and bring in her front legs so that she might bite around both ankles, enough so to allow them to bleed and once more she would stretch those front legs out so that her blood may soak into the earth there. We give blood for blood. Offer life, for life.