"You are kind to say so. I would not be hurt if you were."
[She is aware she is not exactly the prettiest creature. Things like beauty do not matter to deities of her stature, though.
It's a quick trip to the riverside, mostly because Livio is on the mossy back of a giant-ass moose. There's a path of flowers blooming under her hooves across the grove as they go, and as they reach the riverside, she crouches to let him down. She doesn't struggle under his bulk at all.
Once Livio offboards Moder, she'll stand back up, tilt her head back, and let out a bellowing howl. It shakes the leaves on the trees and causes ripples in the water, and it's likely that every person in the Grove proper will hear it. The Behemoth sure does, and so does Sinann, who it was meant to call. It comes swimming over to the river's edge and looks up at Moder and Livio with big eyes.
Unless Livio is wearing his bone ring, he won't understand the conversation, but he'll realise that the two are speaking a completely different language all of a sudden — it's not that Old Norse but rather something more wispy and airy and light. It is the language of spirits, something that Plum in the shop speaks, something that perhaps Heimr didn't think of when he made the bone ring. Animals have sensitivity to the spirit realm, though; it makes sense.
Regardless, if he has the bone ring on, he'll hear Moder ask Sinann if it knows where Terho was buried, and Sinann will do a spin in the water and answer that it does know! Terho was buried near the lake when his family brought him out there, since he "liked the lake so much". It was many days after his passing. Callan did not want to hear their platitudes of Terho being buried near him, though; Callan was furious that they took Terho away in the first place.]
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[She is aware she is not exactly the prettiest creature. Things like beauty do not matter to deities of her stature, though.
It's a quick trip to the riverside, mostly because Livio is on the mossy back of a giant-ass moose. There's a path of flowers blooming under her hooves across the grove as they go, and as they reach the riverside, she crouches to let him down. She doesn't struggle under his bulk at all.
Once Livio offboards Moder, she'll stand back up, tilt her head back, and let out a bellowing howl. It shakes the leaves on the trees and causes ripples in the water, and it's likely that every person in the Grove proper will hear it. The Behemoth sure does, and so does Sinann, who it was meant to call. It comes swimming over to the river's edge and looks up at Moder and Livio with big eyes.
Unless Livio is wearing his bone ring, he won't understand the conversation, but he'll realise that the two are speaking a completely different language all of a sudden — it's not that Old Norse but rather something more wispy and airy and light. It is the language of spirits, something that Plum in the shop speaks, something that perhaps Heimr didn't think of when he made the bone ring. Animals have sensitivity to the spirit realm, though; it makes sense.
Regardless, if he has the bone ring on, he'll hear Moder ask Sinann if it knows where Terho was buried, and Sinann will do a spin in the water and answer that it does know! Terho was buried near the lake when his family brought him out there, since he "liked the lake so much". It was many days after his passing. Callan did not want to hear their platitudes of Terho being buried near him, though; Callan was furious that they took Terho away in the first place.]