Word Count: 72,014
Summary of Events:
Chapter 23:
Æliyäu's sister Villimænnä and her husband Gerhäardt were planning to leave with a group of people organized by Thårijn's brother Svän, which Æliyäu advised against strongly, and eventually he succeeded in at least convincing them to take some time and think it over. Thårijn then found out from Bæjern about the council and what had happened amongst his siblings, and he wasn't really too terribly surprised about most of the news.
Chapter 24:
Æliyäu went to visit Helännä, but because of hearing an outcry went and saw Øbjen and told him that Thårijn the Eikenenshåldjgråvenwød, then once he'd done that he was met by Thårijn's sister Vånnä's husband Villäm and given a sword — being as he doesn't really have the ability to go into the forges and make his own — and was told about Bæjern's sword. So Æliyäu went and was shown Bæjern's sword, finally he then visited Helännä. Thårijn had been building his shield and then he stained it the colours he wanted and lent Bæjern the brush and watched Bæjern stain his shield.
Excerpt of the Day:
"Thårijn nodded. "Do you think they would try and take my life even now?"
"They may very well, who knows?" Bæjern replied.
"Is it because of what they believe me to be that they all seek to kill me — aside from Øsälä?" Thårijn asked.
"Are you not the Eikenenshåldjgråvenwød?" Bæjern asked.
"What do you think?" Thårijn asked.
"Yes, I think you are," Bæjern replied. "Æliyäu has been a frequent visitor, and not just to our mother. He has been called by Göd, he is the one who told us that the time is in full, so I would be quite certain that he has told you that your are the Eikenenshåldjgråvenwød."
Thårijn emptied his plate and said nothing, rising to wash his dishes.
"Many of them want to kill you so that they will become the Eikenenshåldjgråvenwød, even though it is that they are not even the last born of their mothers — regardless of the royal tradition," Bæjern said.
"They are jealous," Thårijn said.
"Very much so," Bæjern replied.
"I will need to be on by guard even now yet," Thårijn said.
"I would advise you to be, yes," Bæjern replied.
Thårijn nodded. "Then I shall be."
"I advise you not to travel on your own," Bæjern said.
"I shall be well armed," Thårijn replied. "I have much ready. I only need to finish my set of armour and I will be ready to depart."
"But what about your food?" Bæjern asked.
"I shall have Sönnä and my other sisters who will come in peace," Thårijn replied. "For I will not have Mother."
"And Græshädå?" Bæjern asked.
"There shall be plenty of grass," Thårijn replied. "And he has legs to paw under the snow. He shall be well."
"What sort of arms do you have?" Bæjern asked.
Thårijn stepped into his room and pulled out the suit of armour he had fashioned, the mail and leather he had gotten for himself and Græshädå, the daggers, axes, and other weaponry he'd fashioned — except his sword.
"You have no shield, just a shield-boss," Bæjern said.
"I've had no time to fashion a shield yet, but I hope that I shall yet," Thårijn replied.
"And you have no sword," Bæjern said.
"I do," Thårijn replied. He went over to his bed and reached under, seizing the sheath that had been fashioned for him by Äthelröd's sister. Drawing it out, he took the handle of his sword and drew it out, holding it squarely before himself, casting the sheath aside and taking the handle with both hands.
Bæjern's eyes went wide with amazement.
"This is Helännäri, my sword," Thårijn said."
Villimænnä: villih-mane-ah
Gerhäardt: gerr-hart
Villäm: vill-am
Helännäri: hel-anna-ree
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