#bergen_county

Bark bark bark! TwoBit announces Sylvi's entrance and bobs up on her hind legs in a funny little terrier-dance.

"Cool." Dag grabs two glasses to fill. "Well, if it's a fight then it'll work out. We have a lot of fighters."

"We do." Agreement, but concern. "But...I don't know, Dagmar. The Chieftain and Uncle Frank both look kind of...shaken."

"They sent Siv off in the Kestrel to go alert Mist's Edge."

"Mist's Edge - they did part of the big Thyle quest, right?"

"And you know Chief and Mountain Frank can be really pessimistic. I guess they have to be, because of their jobs."

"Yeah, a lot of them were born in Thyle. And...yeah, they've been concerned before. I guess they do have to be, you're right. Still..." she sips her iced tea. "It's a dragon. But, like, a BIG dragon."

"Dagmar, we need to talk I.." But hten Jaymes stops as he sees who it is. and what theyre' talking about "I was going to fill you in."

"A dragon? Cool!"

"Hey Dad. Tea?"

Sylvi looks more concerned than excited. "Sorry, Jaymes."

"...Not cool?"

"No, it's okay. Well, as okay as bad news ever is."

"Sadly not cool. no tea, thanks." He frowns. "Either of you heard about the details?"

"I heard some, yeah. Skallshrike? Is that it?"

"Skalstyrke" He says it with a Norwegian accent.

And as he does so, a shiver might go up their spines...

"Skalstyrke..."

Sylvi shifts. "Yeah." She looks like she wants to say more, but she's letting Jaymes tell it.

Jaymes says "The closest to a clean translation is Skullbreaker... but he is known as the Giantbane, the Destroyer of lodges, and his favorite target as these names imply is trolls..."

"Sally Mae said something once..."

Her brow furrows, eyes going distant for a minute.

The memory came to her first when she heard the news at the Lodge. It echoes again now, and she looks at the countertop blankly, dismayed.

"...Hunh."

"...and so far, it's a cycle" Jaymes finishes, "It rises, destroys a lodge and gluts.. and feeds. We have three new moons until SOMEWHERE, not necessarily here, in Concordia, the dragon swoops down and destroys a lodge and kills all in it."

"Only if it wins. So if there's a big enough force.. or a strong enough weapon?"

"I...I think I was part of a bit magic spell to harm it, once." She pauses. "It didn't work."

"Three months... so... Halloweenish?"

"Huh.. well, right down what you remember" He reaches for paper and pencils to hand at the girl, "The mountain wants notes. Dagmar... there are stories were it was badly wounded.... but that was against more trolls than we have. And it lives and... yeah, Samhain. Not the best time for us" He frowns

"Not a bad time. We can fight unseelie."

"Yeah, but...the Chieftain...."

"...Right. She gets depressed, right?"

"Mostly, yeah."

Jaymes frowns but nods.

"Siv is going across Concordia to deliver the clurichaun who brought us news to every lodge she can. To warn them all"

"Not knowing which lodge it'll go after is the big problem. If we knew which one it was, all the trolls could go there and defend it. Other fae might even help. But not knowing...."

"Can Vali try?"

"I Hadn't asked" He admits

"Or a soothsayer? Mountain Emmitt is good, right?"

"Maybe Vali would be able to see, but he might not be able to say it. It's that Beaumayne thing."

"I know the clurichaun already was at the Farm, so maybe Mountain Emmit is already working on it."

"Mountain Frank is working on it, probably with Mountain Emmit" Jaymes says. "For now, we go about our lives as the Chieftain directs."

A bit of a grin to Jaymes and she nods.

"And..." Jaymes says "it is entirely possible that one or both of you wilders will not be fighting the dragon, but rather escorting other kith to safety."

She harrumphs.

"I'm a good fighter."

"I know the escort is important, but....if any of us are fighting, I'd feel bad not being there with them."

"And you'd make a good guardian" He says to his daughter. Then a look to Sylvi, "Yes, well, given how we are, i imagine most trolls would. Doesn't mean the job doesn't need doing."