closed for @rvnxnt !
he is alive . she should be angry, she should be filled with white - hot blood that makes her see RED . instead, it is relief, cascading like a waterfall all over her . chloé makes her way through the viking encampment, pushes past people who are should be more excited to see him . " soren, " she finally says, and it may just be the first time she's ever called him that , by his name instead of you, or viking . " they said- i thought- " rumors are vermin, absence is worse, " i thought you had died . " she hadn't realized just how much that had affected her, losing another person . another person she cared about . " new scar, " she notes, and it takes every ounce of self control she has left not to fuss over it .