VIKING: Thunder Horse (Norse Adventure Series Book 2) by Aiken Ritter Katie
Author:Aiken Ritter, Katie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-29T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Forty-One
The tallow-renderer guided his horse along the road towards the small settlement where he worked, looking for a waiting figure. A maroon shawl, yes, there was his wife. He waved, eager to share the amazing news. This year they would celebrate the spring dÃsablót festivities as never before.
At his wave, he saw her entire body change from stiff worry to relief. She lifted her skirts and ran towards him, mindless of the deep mud on the trackway.
He leapt from the horse. Her arms went around him as his feet touched the ground. âIt went well!â she cried. âI can see it in your eyes! Tell me everything!â
He buried his face against his wifeâs shoulder. The long ride home had filled him with hope. So much could happen now.
. . .
âJust think! Our grandchild in Naldrumâs own household! Living on that grand farm, in that house!â He looped the horseâs reins around his arm. Hand in hand, he and his wife walked back to their modest dwelling.
âIs it true that Naldrum has a glass window in his longhouse?â
âIt is. I saw one as we walked through. I wanted to go over and touch it, but no one is allowed.â
âBut you saw it!â
âI did. The sun shone through it onto the longhouse floor!â
She marveled. So many years of struggle, of worry, now perhaps at an end. She asked him over and over to repeat Naldrumâs words, and he said them, laughing. âAll will be well!â
She felt like a girl. âI canât wait to tell our daughter! Walk faster!â
âWife, Iâve ridden so long,â he protested, but she would have none of it, and laughing, dragged him into a run. He dropped the horseâs reins to let it graze, and together they tumbled through the longhouse door, calling to the fretting young woman who held a tiny bundle in her arms.
. . .
Kel had followed, keeping his horse Thor-Thunder at a distance as he always did. Rounding the same curve in the road, he watched as they went inside. He yearned to turn around, to leave them to their happiness. The ache in his chest flamed.
I canât do this again. But Drikke rode behind him, sulking.
Kel gritted his teeth. Just this year. If that one girl comes, if she gives me proof, Iâll go back to Mani and file a claim. Either way, after this spring, Iâll find a way to be free of Naldrum. Iâll find AldÃs, bodily put her on a ship to another land, and put the knife in Naldrum where he cannot recover.
He groaned. What would AldÃs think of what he was about to do? What he had done so many times? She would detest him even more. But she would be safe from Naldrumâs threats as long as Kel carried out his headmanâs grisly orders.
At least he, unlike Drikke, could show the family some respect and kindness in this dreadful deed.
. . .
Kel willed himself to become iron. He dismounted his horse and forced himself to walk towards the small dwelling.
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