He wouldn't have been wrong to inquire. Gyda knew her brother to be tricky and twisting words and half truths wouldn't be below him. "He will keep his word, for my sake if nothing else. He hates my mother, but we share the same father and that makes us family, and in this place, when people can disappear so suddenly, family is important."

For Ivar's sake, she refrained from telling him that her brother felt he owed her a debt. Even after her vision was restored, he felt guilty about it-and took it out in their training together. Besides, Headmund had no reason to know this anyway. Neither did he have to know that she was one of the few members of their family he didn't hold a grudge against.