#rivervale_lodge

He leans against her with a sigh and lets his head get scratched, eyes heavy lidded with pleasure at the attention:

"He. Is not. A pet."

Those t's are well clipped.

"oh. "

She sets Connor down, "go on now. It was nice meeting you."

Oh, and at that tone he retreats, a hint of a guilty look as though he had piddled somewhere or chewed a shoe, and scrambles off to wherever puppies go.

"Connor, please come back and meet Lady Tanya properly."

"Baroness, I will remember more as time unfolds. I know some of the images will make sense if I can just put them together again. It is my hope that your greater experience will provide insight into them that I might lack not being as familiar in some ways with this Autumn world. "

Brekke regards the girl, then nods and sighs. "Well said. Know that, although you have replaced the girl Tanya, her family is still your host's source of support, and so you must live her life as if you were the mortal girl she was. We will try to help you do so." Who 'we' is isn't exactly clear.

"I understand, and I do feel some odd echo of attachment to them." She says, then "Are there no other sidhe in these lands?"

Siv looks wistfully out a window

A slight nod. "There are. In fact, I would like to escort you to Caer Falken, home to Hemlock Autumnsbane, Count of Bergen. You must be introduced. Are you ready?" She rises.

"Yes, of course," She says then "oh, a moment please, there is one thing I must do." She looks to Siv "Please extend my thanks to Sylvi , Zane and ...Dagmar if you see them. Whatever else they were helpful as were you when Iwas vulnerable. ANd... " A look to Hearth Kerri, "Dame Kerri, thank you for a cup of coco so delicious I almost think it is Arcadian sent." A bob of her head to all before turning back to the chieftain "Lead on when ready, Baroness."

A look back to Kerri. "Let the Mountain know all of this. I will return later." She rests a reassuring hand on Siv's shoulder for a moment, then leads the way to the door.

"you coullld tell them yourself" Siv says but then coughs "I'll pass it on if I see them first." A nod to her mum

And Tanya glides after, like a beam of winter sunlight behind the glacier of a woman

Brekke's expression is carefully neutral at Siv's words, and then she is out the door and gone with the new sidhe.

With a sigh, Kerri retreats to the kitchen.

Rubbing her forehead, "I think I prefer Lump Sidhe, and not just because 'boys'. Still, owe mum me best support." She moves on up the steps.