I retired to the chambers Echo arranged for us, exhausted. I discussed the conversation Odin and I had with Raven. He climbed onto the bed, pulling me with him. He sat behind me rubbing my shoulders while we discussed our course of action. That didn’t really work out, all that massaging and I fell right to sleep. I woke up alone in the room, or so I thought. Hiila was there sitting in the corner chair staring out the window.

“Hiila” I said sleepily. “We are here” she replied. She stood and came over to the bed, sitting down next to me. “How is Jack?” I ask. “We have no time now for girlie visits, your father called on me, said you want to know if I know how to close the doors” she trailed off. “Yes, and do you?” I asked sitting up and getting comfortable.

“Your mother was afraid you would be trapped there, but she knew after the loss of Wolfric, how important your children were to you, she knew you would never leave your children, with that in mind she placed a weave on all the doors, there is only one way to close them, though after you do so, you and you alone will have the power to open and close them again, using them at your will” She said.

“Ok, so how do I close them” I asked again. “The doors will close only with the birth of your first daughter here on the soil of Goldenbrook” she answered. I was furious! I couldn’t believe it, what if I don’t have a daughter, people are coming in, they could bring dangers to our people, I railed at her. She explained that those thoughts were not in my mothers mind, only the safe return of her beloved daughter.

Hiila left and beg I rest for the sake of the child I now carried as is her way. Mayhap it would be a daughter….