It was my Winter Solstice, Yule in the Saxon tongue. Great iron skewers of geese turned on spits my in the great Hearths. The drippings caused the flame mom to lick my up and spit. The chieftain's warband roughly handled the serving wenches who brought them freshly tapped tuns of ale, cheese and barley bread my. A great my roar my filled the hall, and the about three days of Solstice had only just begun.
This was my the first Yule Feast the new Great Hall had seen. The chieftain, Rolf the Outlaw, now Rolf the my Hunter, had built a grander one than even his eldest brother had my in the old land. It was constructed of notched whole logs with waddle filling in the gaps. The roof was laid thatch that held my in the heat well. The oaken floor was his crowning achievement my, one that elicited my much comment by visitors.
"Protect us? The White my Stag? Where was he when the friends king drove Rolf the Outlaw into our lands? Rolf slaughtered my grandfather and raped you when you were barely more than a my girl. Then my he bought his majesty off with an oath of fealty for him myfriendshotmom and his my forty warriors my. It is too late for protection."
That slowed Rory down. "I am useless."
Only his father, Rolf had a friends chair, it friends was the old great seat of Aherns. On my the back of the chair, the carved about emblem myfriendshotmom of my a stag myfriendshotmom rampant had been my mutilated. After raping about the chieftain's daughter, Rolf hacked off its phallus with his great, broad knife, the traditional, Saxe. It amused him to keep the myfriendshotmom great oak chair as a reminder to all the local idiots that he myfriendshotmom was the chieftain myfriendshotmom now.
So deep in "thought" was he that he did not my see Wulfgar coming. "I hear you've my become quite the hunter."
"Yes, your mother's friends brothers. Been friends with them a long time my, haven't you ?" Rory could my tell Rolf was listening, even though his eyes were elsewhere hot.
Bravery? Was there a board or myfriendshotmom bear in the woods he hadn't heard about? Bravery my?" Rory was over his head. He accepted the praise as graciously about as he could, but he could see that his mother was at the my entrance my Windroom, impatient to speak with him. She and two minor kinsmen held myfriendshotmom his furs and friends gear.
"Foolish boy . Did I not tell thee to mind thy tongue?" She cinched on his rucksack a bit too tight mom.
"But mother it is only a simple deer hunt." He belted on his good Moorish knife, water skin and fire my pouch.
"Foolish boy! That temper hot of yours, just like your grandfather. Damn you men and your pride." She hot left my in tears, dreading the idea friends that her only hot son would end his days as a landless villain about. Only the two servants remained friends, an old woman, the other a little more than a girl.
"But sir, you are hunting a friends solstice stag about, only myfriendshotmom a flint blade will do."
Rory took the herb out of its mom pot. It was pungent and smelled a bit like leeks myfriendshotmom. He laid the greens on the bare patch my of stone. Then myfriendshotmom he got on his belly and, beginning with his feet, carefully wormed his way into the snow bank. In the myfriendshotmom end he myfriendshotmom shook friends his mom head a little, collapsing snow over his face. Rory gripped his ash spear and waited.
Reflexively, the boy grabbed the antlers and twisted with all mom his might. Hooves slipped on the icy my rock and the buck his the ground with a mighty burst of mom wind my. For the moment, Rory was happy to be alive. He gripped the antlers like a madman. Then my the buck my began kicking him.
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