[full moon part two]

The moon hangs heavy and round in the sky, and Ygritte finds herself particularly restless.

With everything warm and the night growing shorter, something she's never really known like this, so many more hours fill the day. So many more places exist, and there's green, growing life everywhere, the land coming to life like the stories they'd whispered before she'd fallen asleep, just a babe.

It's all so alive, an electrifying feeling, and when Ygritte peers out her window to see the moon so high and full, she very suddenly knows the cure for this deep restlessness, the need to confront the life seeping out of every crack of Darrow.

She remembers the way to Derek's place, and even pays a car to take her part of the way. The rest, she walks, kicking off her boots somewhere near the path up to his house. It hadn't even occurred to her to try and look pretty-- she's in nothing more than a thin sleeveless shirt and her shorts, hair tumbling wild on her shoulders as she knocks on the door.

Lights are on, and it's early enough-- she's certain he's here.