09-04-2016, 09:43 AM
He hears a familiar voice, and freezes. He is so sure it had been her...yet all he hears is the chirrup of early morning birdsong and the wind in the trees. Then it comes again, this time voicing his name, and he knows that it had been real.
"Ygritte!" he trumpets as he races forward, having turned in the direction of the voice when he had first heard it. The path he takes is no path at all, forcing his way through heavy brush and overgrowth as he heads directly towards the sound of the voice.
And then she is there, looking scratched and bruised but most important - alive. He crashes into her, the force great enough to knock her over had he not wrapped his neck across her opposite site to hold her close. "I thought I'd lost you," he murmurs in her ear, "I thought I'd never seen you again."
"Ygritte!" he trumpets as he races forward, having turned in the direction of the voice when he had first heard it. The path he takes is no path at all, forcing his way through heavy brush and overgrowth as he heads directly towards the sound of the voice.
And then she is there, looking scratched and bruised but most important - alive. He crashes into her, the force great enough to knock her over had he not wrapped his neck across her opposite site to hold her close. "I thought I'd lost you," he murmurs in her ear, "I thought I'd never seen you again."