" did you know there's a godswood within highgarden ? " serena asks to break the comfortable silence . her gaze lifts from absently flipping through the pages of the book she'd been reading to maika earlier , resting on @encirclet . rather than the text and illustrations next to her , however , the information is conjured from memory . as her thoughts flicker from one topic to another — her time in the reach , what changed and what stayed the same , the people she traversed the reach with — it reminds serena that she has yet to ask for rickard's opinion , whether she should involve herself in her nephew's affairs . but she elects to keep the conversation not so bleak , at least for the moment , " it's nothing like the northern ones , surely , but i've heard the three singers are still quite magnificent . "















