I waited, and hoped I would endure because my patience was tested and strained to the limits. I had dreamt again. Of murder. In the dream, I had rowed back across the river, and just like some small demi-god of Asgaard, a cre...
In the evenings, the main hall filled with mild mannered soldiers. They sat there, sipping mead and ale and spoke gently amidst long tables while warming flames from the huge fireplace lit the room. They were rarely the same men, but often new faces. Some were like us, blond and tall, others stou...
My mind was whirling as I tried to catch a sight of Ittisana. “Did you know?” I whispered. “She lives!” Thak looked long-suffering and said nothing. I fumed. The black steps led up. T...
Men curse the damp weather, the sickness that follows, and the general mood-killing gloom, and they fear freezing nights and frosty mornings and so it was that the fall months didn’t cheer many people, unless they hoped to die in the winter and knew their time was near. The land was steaming with...