“how’s my land?” she’d ask every day when his father returned from the fields, and later jesper would learn that the farm had been in her name, a wedding gift from his father, who had courted aditi hilli for nearly a year before she’d deigned to give him the time of day.
“blooming,” he’d say, kissing her cheek. “just like you, love.”
- leigh bardugo
Oh! This makes me so happy. And… wondering if you guys picked up the little echo in Colm’s line? One of those things I really enjoyed building into Colm and Jesper’s speech patterns.