Neve swallowed, catching her lower lip between her teeth.\u00a0 \u201cDid Phelan tell you that, Marin?\u201d<\/p>\n
She snorted softly.\u00a0 \u201cWhen was there time?\u00a0 He didn\u2019t tell me.\u00a0 It never came up.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think Thordin even knew he\u2019d had a child until Sif told him out on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even Thom looked confused by his wife\u2019s statement and his words came slowly, measured.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen how do you know that Ireland was safe?\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at him squarely.\u00a0 \u201cA certain ghost that likes to hang around told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00c9riu.\u00a0 Of course.<\/i>\u00a0 Neve shook her head slightly, a faint smile tugging at one corner of her mouth.\u00a0 \u201cI should have known.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe,\u201d Marin whispered, her gaze flicking back toward Sif.\u00a0 \u201cYou should sit.\u00a0 Thordin will cool off enough that he\u2019ll want to talk eventually and you did want to hear about what we\u2019re facing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cActually, you were more interested in my story than I was in yours.\u201d\u00a0 Still, the muscular woman eased into a sitting position, facing Marin, Thom, and Neve next to the fire.\u00a0 \u201cGiven your apparent friendship with…Thordin…I can\u2019t say that I blame you.\u201d\u00a0 She glanced at Neve, her eyes narrowing slightly.\u00a0 \u201cHow long have you known?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe found me on the road,\u201d Neve said softly.\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t believe it when my brother told me he was still alive.\u00a0 I thought what everyone else thought\u2014that he was dead, gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI told you that I got better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sif flinched at the rumble of Thordin\u2019s voice from behind her, the warrior woman going rigid as his shadow fell over her.\u00a0 Neve looked up at him, trying to suppress a grimace.\u00a0 He just looked at her, resignation in his eyes as he stepped away from Sif and circled the fire to pour himself a cup of coffee from the pot that sat steaming on the stones near the flames.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did die,\u201d Thordin said quietly, \u201cbut as some of us have come to realize, death is actually a transient state of being.\u00a0 The dead can come back if that\u2019s what their souls desire.\u201d\u00a0 Pain filled his gaze as he looked at Sif.\u00a0 \u201cOr if someone deems their return necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you saying?\u201d she whispered.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m saying that I was reborn onto this earth as a little boy named Torvald Amundsen thirty years ago in Wyoming and it wasn\u2019t until Lili and Sven Amunden were murdered in front of me when I ten years old that I realized who and what I really was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Neve swallowed, catching her lower lip between her teeth.\u00a0 \u201cDid Phelan tell you that, Marin?\u201d She snorted softly.\u00a0 \u201cWhen was there time?\u00a0 He didn\u2019t tell me.\u00a0 It never came up.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think Thordin even knew he\u2019d had a child … Continue reading