the firestarters always get the burns
and the good guys never get the girl
She can’t say she’s not happy with the new recruits, but.
But.
She knows; she is not blind. She sees it in the way the girls’ faces light up when they tell her why and how they came to Hyaline, she knows it by the smell of the colt’s touch lingering upon them. She wonders how he keeps that up, but mostly, if he has figured it out yet - he can’t bring them all here under the presumption they’re the only one. They will run into one another.
Recruiting takes more than dragging a pretty face over - they won’t stay long if they aren’t a fit, or at least they won’t be an asset for the kingdom. So she seeks him out; it had been long overdue, but if Kagerus doesn’t tell him that this is not the way, if Solace doesn’t believe her boy is capable of all this, and if Svedka is again or still running around the mountains as a lion - then she is the only one.
She tracks his scent, and wonders how the hell she should talk this out with a mute.
@[Rhaegor] because he has a foster mother who is not pleased, right about now