Why be ashamed? her mother always said. If people don’t like you, it’s their problem, don’t make yourself suffer for it. Fuck ’em, she’d always said. You’ll find enough folk want you to suffer, there’s no need to help the bastards. They never got Vigga’s mother to drop her eyes, and Odin’s beard, they’d tried. So Vigga didn’t drop hers, either. Not for anyone.
