#dreaming

A pause. "Earl, are not at least three DeBukes pregnant?"

"Yes, but I don't claim to know how that works..." He blushes

"Women's ways are womens ways" "Not to be nosed into" "Mmmph" the fellows say

The female spirits look amused and roll their eyes alternatively

"Still, that is three... but leaves..." She counts.

"Three more" Earl notes "Fewer than I expected" he admits

"Six trolls are thunderous. Of course, if the Maudes are carrying more than one apiece..."

"We six sent the others out" one fellow says "While we fought... though the childling was not supposed to be there"

"They might be satyrs," Earl whispers

"Others? Sent where?"

The girl crosses her arms but answers "yes...to save them time, some escaped, and I assumed went on. They may have had more than a few lives"

Eyebrow.

"We do not need enter belly direct" One of the figures said, "It is in the blood you see...we can empower that,a ttune it, and if dreaming is kind ,our soul will follow this new line"

"...Escaped?"

"It's hard to remember, the dragon came... we sent away some of the hearth I think, the very young...thel odge..." A scowl "some held the line while others fled with allies we trusted"

"So... some of your Lodge escaped the Dragon, but you six... you were the last defenders?"

"Aye!" Proud

"Remember you the name of your Lodge?"

"Frostglen," One says "We called it Frost glen"

"Remember you a year?"

"Nay" a shake of the head

"Frost Glen... nay, Lodge no more. It is held by Sidhe."

"A freehold, the fire lives..."

"They must have restored it.. we owe them something" But said BEGRUDGINGLY

"I will go" One fellow says "I Remember some of the shining host kindly.. I will go that area, and repay them"

"I forget which house holds it..."

"I will go regardless..." He says and rises. "I think I can find it now."

Earl says "You are welcome to the farm, the rath is open...bind yourselves there if you like... there is, also if you wish...Rivervale, a holding in the Duchy of Gardens... a fine lodge"

"The Shacklebreaker is a fine chief, true."

Check yourself before ya Brekke yourself

"Bristlepine was the third lodge to contribute directly to the demise. I know less of them" He says "But they are of unseelie bent"

One troll perks at that "mm sound like I will pay the debt there, ironically enough"

"The Farm is quite seelie, alas."

Earl looks amused at that alas

"Rivervale is more mixed."

Nods are given

And they rise...seeming to have trouble focusing on old memories and new directions... they are shedding their old lives so rapidly

"A new life awaits you. A new start, as heroes are due. Change is good, nu?"

"I wish we could find the other.." one sighs

"Wait, I thought you were the only ones trolls of that lodge that stayed?"

"We were, there was another.. not a troll who saw the lodge.. who joined in..foolish, but brave"

"And shared our fate.. but hard to remember"

"Wait, do yo uremember the kith? "

Earl asks

"It was a pooka..."

"No, definitely an eshu..." the other says

and they..part, leaving before they can settle the matter

Eyebrow.

"Curious."

Earl nod "Yeah, does right of rescue count for pure fae? as well as changeling?" Troubled by something