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"Vell, der vun I ketch, his name was no Tuomas," amended Hilda, but smiling as she did so, "und I am told dot is a Templar's duty to follow der mages vereffer dey go, bot I do no tink dot ekstend to der bath, ja? A voman's temple is no for man to vorship mit out her permission." A quaint, but thoroughly Hilda-esque way of looking at the situation! Imenry had probably heard of it, when Hilda dragged the young Templar through Amaranthine to plop him at the feet of Aurin Demarc and demand of him Some Answers. Much of the keep had thought it riotously funny for weeks afterward, though Hilda did not seem embarassed, having felt herself right and correct in defending Thais. "Notting is wrong mit bath in a stream! Is brisk und good for der soul. Although," and her blue eyes sparkled with good humour and perhaps just a touch of mischief, "I haff often vonder if a mage could varm der riffer sometimes, not enough to harm der fish und vildlife, of course."
Explaining how her people came to be - Hilda herself an oddity, a woman of the world come from its most remote regions, daughter to both a jarl steeped in his line's traditions and a witch-aetheling of sorcerous origin - seemed to be the easiest task the skald had been set this day, and when Imenry replied with some tidbits of her own, the blonde woman smiled brightly and tilted her head in fascination. "I tink, mayhaps, dot long ago our two peoples may haff been vun. Hyu vould like mein oldest und youngest brothers, Alaric und Lukas. Hyu sound moch der same, hyu refference for der land und der game. Bot I find dot der greatest hunters are der vuns who vish to preserf der land der most, ja?" And indeed, Imenry seemed a woman at home in and respectful of the wildest of places, especially the cold and mountainous regions Hilda herself called home. Hilda might well extend her invitation to visit the villages of Brandr once this was all over - oh, yes, she would feel a little twinge of guilt for doing so, because a selfish piece of her would want Ordhan to herself for the long journey if and when it was made, but Imenry, like the knight, was fast becoming a trustworthy figure in the skald's eyes.