"You can actually speak with the dead?!" Ashlynn asked, staring at Hauke in disbelief. Thane told her that the Frost Walkers viewed their horns as sacred and that they kept them in ancestral caves but she'd assumed that it was like a normal graveyard. Clearly, there was much more to it than that.
Around her, both Heila and Andrus took steps back, their eyes wide as if the island was home to ghosts that could prey upon them at any moment. Only Virve seemed unphased by Hauke's statement, shaking her head at the antics of the young ones from the Horned Clan who spent very little if any time among their frosty neighbors.
"I, I don't think 'speaking with the dead' is the right way to think of it," Hauke said carefully after clarifying words with Heila. "More like, we commune with their memories and wisdom. Our departed ancestors aren't ghosts or vampires, they don't learn new things after they die and continue their existence."
