I had noticed your arrival from a distance, a figure who, in his own world of fatigue and wounds, seemed to have been stripped of all energy. Maybe that's why it caught his attention, because he saw in you a shadow of what he himself had been when he arrived.

While working close to each other, they met a couple of times under the shade of a large tree. Thorfinn watched without saying a word, noting the mixture of resignation and suppressed fury in her expression. At some point, when the day became exhausting, you tried to lift a load that was too heavy and your hands shook. Thorfinn silently approached and helped you support the weight.

—You don't have to try so hard, if your body isn't ready —he said in a low voice, while both finished arranging the load.