The daylight came thin and honest through the longhouse window, and Hannah felt the looseness she’d promised herself like a weight shifting into a new pocket. She had planned mornings and bread and the slow mapping of a life that didn't wait for Marcus to decide. Yet now, with two free weeks before the pass watch, empty hours sat in the yard with mocking silence. She paced the room once, then twice, the soles of her boots scuffing familiar grooves into the dirt floor, and the feeling at her ribs - restless, expectant - wouldn't be soothed by kneading dough or mending a sleeve.Her father sat at the table, hands folded around a cup, eyes catching the morning light in the same way they always did when he read what wasn’t said. "You've got that look," he said, soft as the hearth. "Thinking of the ridge again?""I do too much thinking," she admitted, folding her hands to warm them. "And not enough doing. There's too much useless quiet in my days. I want to train with the pack warriors. No
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