Songs of the Stag Track 3 > Rolling Hills of the Borders

Songs of the Stag Track 3 > Rolling Hills of the Borders

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The Rolling Hills of the Borders is such a joyful folk song and I feel it really represents Cait’s love of her home region. This track comes 3rd on the Song of the Stag playlist, as I always imagine Cait and Kenzie’s train to Thorterknock speeding through the countryside when I listen to it. In one of the verses, the narrator talks about how they have travelled far and wide but love nothing more than their home in the Borders. Cait is much the same. It doesn’t matter how much she changes or how much she outgrows her home, its place in her heart is sealed. I chose the Borders as Cait’s home as I wanted her to be as physically close to Storran’s oppressors as possible. It’s what lends her the balanced outlook she wields in the story and helps her counter Aggie’s cut and dry opinion of the Afrenian people.