She surprised him with a grin and it transformed her face. ‘The old ones among my people say that sometimes you find a person with the roar of a sea squall in their eyes, and those ones, they say, have swum the deepest waters. In you, Ruthan Gudd, I now understand what they meant. But in you I see not a squall. I see a damned typhoon.’
He quickly looked away, ran fingers through his beard. ‘Just a spell of gas, Skanarow.’
She barked a laugh. ‘Have it your way, then. Avoid raw vegetables, Captain.’
He watched her ride off. Fisherfolk. You, Skanarow with the lovely smile, I need to avoid. Too bad.
Greymane, you always said that between the two of us I was the luckier one. Wrong, and if your ghost hearkens to its name, spare me any echo of laughter.
He paused, but all he could hear was the wind, and there was no humour in that moan.