Hammer of God by Ines Johnson

Author:Ines Johnson [Johnson, Ines]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781944744137
Published: 2018-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Here to steal some fruit again?" asked Bryn.

It always came back to thievery. I'd never actually stolen anything from someone. Anything I'd ever taken was from someone who was dead. I'd taken things out of museums, out of tombs, but never out of anyone's actual hand. I had some morals.

Bryn finally noticed that Loki had slipped through her fingers. She looked up at the sky and screamed, or rather screeched, as his body dissipated into the clouds.

"Oh, let him go," said Siggy. "You two can poke each other with swords another day."

Bryn turned glaring eyes back on me like it had been my fault that she'd dropped her guard. "No human woman has breached this realm for three thousand years. How did you get here?"

"I …" I figured I'd start at the beginning. "It was a shipwreck. Over the Bermuda Triangle."

The Valkyrie lowered their swords. Well, Siggy and Hilda did. Bryn still pointed hers at my left boob.

"Ran and Aegir," said Siggy.

"They must have sent her to us," said Hilda.

"They've never sent a female before," said Siggy. "What would we do with one?"

"I don't know?" Hilda frowned at me in consternation. "They don't have the strength we require that human men do."

It had to be the feminist in me that ignored self-preservation and reared her head to tell these women just how wrong they were characterizing me, and my entire species' gender. "They didn't send me. I escaped."

There was a pregnant pause, swollen with disbelief. Bryn burst out laughing. Siggy looked at me with an amused sort of pity. Hilda reached out and patted me on the head again. I dodged her hand before it could land.

"Bryn, lower your sword," said Hilda. "Can't you see she's just a lost, defenseless, little human woman? She's frightened to death. Look at her shaking."

Oh, I was shaking all right. With rage. There was nothing I wanted more than to test my magical blade against their light ones. But that would definitely confirm that I was a witch or at least a knight. And I already saw how that reaction played out.

So, even though my panties were bunched into a tightwad up my ass, I allowed the tremors that ran through my body to be mistaken for fear.

"We must show her compassion," Hilda was saying. "She's likely never seen women such as us in her short life. Warriors with the strength of body and spirit that no man could ever hope to test."

Had these Valkyrie never been to the human world? In any century? In any culture?

Not every woman on earth carried a weapon. None of them rode a dragon. Some weighed less than the armor these three carried on their back. But human women were filled with cunning, craftiness, and an intelligence that kept the world spinning while men were busy exploring what was between their legs. If Valkyrie didn't recognize now, they would by the time I left this place.

"We're Valkyrie." Hilda smiled down at me like a first-grade teacher explaining why we didn't eat the crayons.

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