"Knowing my luck, you will return home soon." It's said with a hint of amusement. Self deprecation and a sense of irony at the number of friends and allies she had lost. The Others had a way of testing her and it was becoming fatiguing to accept and move forward after every blow.

But she shook her head, not wishing to think of it now. Ubbe was good company and more often than not, he pulled her out of her darker thoughts and found reason to make her smile.

She glanced down at her hands, held gently and softly by his. "I was at my loom too long. It's nothing." Blue eyes flicked up towards him, hesitant by the intimate gesture.