"Then this is no concern for us to have." They weren't worried in the first place, in truth. They still don't know how he did it, but they could take villages from him now far more easily. They'd just rather not. The idea of their Creature missing by another god's work, even briefly, is as upsetting as the war that they'd likely need to wage after.

Sweetheart returns. Holding another tree, Monzun notes absently when she plants it somewhere near the beach.

"Yes. Unless you would prefer elsewhere," they say abruptly, swinging back thoughtfully in a half-circle. "Is this not your home? Or was it another place? The land of more snow?" They still remember Khazar's announcing him as though "of the snowy realm" was his title; this lead to their own taking "of the seaside storms", though they've dropped the "seaside" since.