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I pulled my sword from my scabbard with my right hand and caught the axe with my left. “Vegr yfir fjor.” She settled her arm all the way into her shield, lifting it up over her head in an arc to stretch her shoulder before she repeated it back to me. “Vegr yfir fjor.” Honor above life.
if with that last breath, her soul had let go of her body. But with Iri, it had never been that way. I still felt him. Maybe I always would.
“He’s my brother. And if you get him killed, I will cut your throat like I should have done in Aurvanger.”
Because the only thing worse than knowing I was a dýr was the thought of my father knowing it too.
Iri picked up a basket and handed it to me. “You look pretty.” The smile on his face made him look like a little boy. I looked him up and down before my eyes met his, the anger inside of me coming back to life. “You look like a Riki.”
“This kind of bond is formed when a soul is broken. It’s formed through pain, loss, and heartbreak. They’re bound by something deeper than we can see. And that made Iri family.”
“What are you thinking now?” The weight of it fell from my head, down into the rest of my body. The words were small but they were true. “I’m thinking that I wish you’d died that day.”
find things, just as we lose things, Eelyn.” Inge stood. “If you’ve lost your honor, you’ll find it again.”
“Thank you,” she whispered. And the glacier inside of me cracked. It roared as it broke and fell into the icy waters around my heart. “You’re welcome.”
“Elska ykkarr,” he said, and the warmth of the words wound around me. I love you.
The moon rose up over my broken home and I broke with it.
And when he kissed me again, the seconds slowed. They stretched out and made more time. I felt his body against mine, unraveling everything else that was between us, and my soul unwound, threading itself to his. And I let it. I gave myself to him. Because I was already his.
