The winter frailty clung to the edges of the God's Garden, ice creeping over the stone foundations and climbing up the many wild herbs. The normally pungent scents were dulled by the frost, silenced beneath a blanket of white. Talyssa breathed in deeply, her breath misting in front of her pale blue-grey gaze. Her ivory and matte gold coat a stark against the mostly untouched snow. The stillness of the God's Garden was only broken by her solitary footfalls and the distant rustling of animals seeking refuge against the creeping cold. Her mind was not on the landscape, however, but on finding Quill.

She knew she had been too invested in her studies, that they had come to stay in hearthstone longer than she intended. Her guilt gnawed at her through the cold, the weight of her unrealized distance sitting heavy in her heart. But now, she wanted to reward his patience with her undivided attention.

"Talyssa Carpathius"

It didn't bother Quill to be left to his own devices. That was how he'd spent the majority of his life, after all. At least he knew there Talyssa was; safe with her family in the castle. So much social interaction... that just wasn't his thing. After a while it grated on him and he needed to get out into the world and breathe. That was what he'd been doing with Talyssa found him.

Lately, his thoughts had been consumed with the strange fae from his dreams. Well... she wasn't only from his dreams. They'd seen one another twice, the second time resulting in him saving her life from a bear. The same situation that had led him to meeting and becoming infatuated with Talyssa, actually. He couldn't deny the fact that the draw towards the other woman was intriguing, but he wouldn't leave Talyssa high and dry.

Approaching pawsteps had the big brute turning his head. He'd swept off a big slab of stone and was laying upon it as though it were his very own throne. Seeing Talyssa, Quill pushed his paws into the stone, sitting up and shaking out his thick, braided mane. "Look who finally decided to come outside," he teased lightly.

"Quill Klein"