That'd be a yes, then. The horses have a bit of anticipation to them, a hope to drink, though they don't have to yet. Lashan's a bit concerned about what to do when it gets dark. Is there going to be an issue with her calling a witchlight so everyone can see?

She purses her lips for a moment. Lashan's explained variations on this to many young people but Guts, if she takes a charitable read, just doesn't have the imagination or attention span of many of the others. How can she keep this simple enough without being too reductive and without seeming to talk down to him? "Around here many of the women most like me think they're men. Believe me, you've seen some, looking like men, acting like men, and thought so too. If they were born to the Plains they'd know they could be womanly and no one would hate them for it. Since they're here, they just wish, except the luckiest ones."

'Womanly' means something quite different on the Plains than here, too, which would make the whole topic more fraught here even if the housefolk cultures welcomed men-who-became-women and women-who-became-men. The 'clans' of Man and Woman are kept so strictly apart here in the north.