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Though she couldn't know it yet it Eyrún's call couldn't have been timed any worse. The wounds of her uncle's death were still fresh in Recluse's mind. Worse still was the effect it had had on her cousins, Jigsaw was distant, and poor Áskell had witnessed the entire affair and the woman suddenly realized she wasn't equipped to help him. The best she could do was offer her strength to her grieving family, the boys, and her aunt especially. As for her own children she was doing what she could to help them work through their first experience with death... which she had realized only days ago was technically he first experience with a proper death, though she assumed well enough at this point that her parents were dead, and had been dead to her emotionally since she'd been a child.

So there was a mix of emotions that flowed through the woman as she answered the call for her uncle, frustration, anger, a fresh wave of grief. These emotions would only get more confusing as the stranger appeared before her, cherry gaze instantly jumping to the woman's visibly swollen stomach. "Oh god." She wasn't quick enough to stop the words as they drop from her lips, realization, and pain in her tone in equal measure. She hoped to the gods she was wrong, that she wasn't about to have to tell this stranger that her unborn were to be denied their father... something that seemed to always happen in their family, by some cruel twist of fate. She summoned her courage and approached the woman until she was standing close to the border on her side of the territory. Her gaze flicked towards the black and grey girl, only a little younger than herself.

"I am Recluse Klien, Harbringr's niece and the leader of Habari. He voice wavered slightly as she said her uncle's name, and she berated herself mentally for showing weakness in front of these two strangers. "Forgive me but may I ask... Are they his?" She gestured toward's the woman's stomach, her tone softer than it might otherwise have been, all signs that she would not be angry at the answer, the pain clearly evident in her tone and posture and she tried to bite back the tears that were prickling at the corners of her eyes as she considered that yet another branch of her family would be broken.

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