The Bond of Blood by Kody Boye

Author:Kody Boye [Boye, Kody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-07T22:00:00+00:00

“Wake up, Odin! Come on! Wake up!”

“Quit shaking me!” Odin cried, throwing Nova’s arms away from his shoulders. “Where are we?”

“We’re here!” Nova laughed. “We’re here!”

“Where’s here?”

“Hell if I know, but that doesn’t matter because we’re here!”

Before Odin could even begin to question where they could possibly be, Nova pulled him out of bed and began to throw layers of long-sleeved clothes at him. With little choice other than to assemble himself as fast as he could, Odin pulled a pair of long, insulated pants up his legs, then pushed himself into his hood, all the while trying desperately not to stare at the window which remained clouded over with ice. “You don’t know where we are?” he asked.

“No, but Miko said we’re here.”

“Have you seen it?”

“No.”

“Then why are you down here yelling at me?”

Nova didn’t say anything at first. When Odin smiled, however, the man’s lip curled into a smirk, the one corner of his mustache tilting as if he’d just arched an eyebrow. “Miko said to come get you up and dressed.”

“All right.”

After securing his coat into place, Odin pulled his hood over his head and clasped the mouthpiece together. Nova, impatient as ever, began to tap his foot.

“Can you quit?” Odin laughed, pulling gloves onto his hands. “You’re making me nervous.”

“I want to see where we’re at.”

“You can go up without me.”

“He told me to wait for you.”

Shrugging, Odin reached down, pulled another pair of socks onto his ankles, then pushed his feet into his boots. He took several moments to make sure the laces were properly secured before rising.

“Ready?” Nova smiled.

“Yeah,” Odin grunted. “I am.”

The two left the room and made their way through the halls. Cold air met them more than halfway to the stairs—a sign that, while ominous, led Odin to believe that their location had to be much more remote than he had anticipated.

“Brr,” Nova shivered, rubbing his hands together. “Guess it’s colder than I expected.”

The cold only continued to worsen until they stopped at the foot of the stairs. There, the chill seemed to taunt them with its presence alone, slicking white wisps of snow across the stairs and staining their breaths a pale gray.

“How cold do you think it is up there?” Odin asked.

“Don’t know,” Nova said, “and don’t care just as long as we’re where we’re supposed to be.”

Odin didn’t linger on Nova’s words. He took his first step up the stairs.

Coming out into the cold, Odin grimaced and tightened his hold on the hood over his head. The spectacle of sailors dressed in their heaviest winter clothing surprised, but didn’t dissuade him from moving any further. He turned and gestured Nova up with a simple wave of his hand.

“What’re they looking at?” Nova asked, grunting when he left the final step.

“I don’t know,” Odin said. “Let’s look.”

After crossing the deck and nearly slipping several times in the process, the two slid between a few men.

Before them lay a sight neither of them would ever forget.

Extending far into the distance

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