A smile slides out, easier than they've tended to come to him lately but Yngvi misses Gunnar like he misses a part of himself and it's easy to talk about him. Gunnar's the one doing grand off with the rest of them, sending letters back and forth when they can (more on Yngvi's end, him being the one with far more hours in the day for the letter-writing part.)

"Carta brother," as if it answers everything because are they brothers by blood, brothers in the Carta sense, or is it both? Best to keep people guessing because he always answers Carta brother with that look in his eye. "There were a bunch of us but we ate the rest, me an' him from our sort of lot 'bout that age were the best of 'em so we got to stick around, get into all sorts of scrapes. He's...in Nevarra? Was last I heard from him. D'you meet him on your travels? I'm the charming and handsome one out the two of us, he just got all the weird stuff."