"Asher was more Avvar than his blood said. Things festering nearly killed him and I guess they did. His mother hid that she was half-Avvar, Asher's grandfather says that Asher's a joke the gods played on her for denying who she was and she exiled Asher from her home. When Asher took us there for the first time he gave me and my brother a last name all proper like, said we were his family."

Yngvi still struggles with that sometimes. Family. Family maybe being a thing you got to choose instead of being a thing that happened to you because Asher said you were allowed to have a family that way if you wanted to. Roaming around the hold and only being teased gently or when he was actually a menace. Honoured guest and it meaning something for the first time in however many years he'd had. (Too few, it's generally accepted he has too few under his belt.)

It's unfair he went how he did, Yngvi hasn't made his peace with it even if he said he did.

"Look, no one's shoving a spirit up me and you lot haven't blown up my home so why would I care? You were all around 'fore everyone else yeah? So. You know what you're doing with it. Got sat down by a fire and told stories because if we were his family, everyone said me and Gunnar should know things."