The Weaver and the Witch Queen

by Genevieve Gornichec

“People say things they don’t mean when they’re hurt and wish to make others hurt with them,” her mother had said once when Oddny was younger and had come crying to her after an argument with Signy. “You’re sisters. When two people know each other as well as you girls do, you know the exact things to say that will cause each other the most pain.”

Until now, she’d been unwilling to admit that she was outmatched. That she could lose. And she hated it.

This wedding was for his family, the people, the gods. But these words were a reminder of the oath they’d already taken, a reminder for just the two of them.