4. Sneaky
I do hope you like this chapter! again so sorry for mistakes, English is not my first language. I speak Spanish, if you are wondering.
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The evening was cold my robe was not thick enough to keep me warm so I had to light a lot of candles. The sun was setting the sky was red, it looked like it was bleeding. Bleeding before the massacre that is coming. I thought. Zeinab came early, to bring me some food which I ate really quickly. I asked her to deliver a letter to Tøumd. I had change from my dress to a pale beige blouse and pants and my short cloak. I put my blades on and with one last look at the room I leave through the window.
I grab the bumps that the wall had and climb up, grasping to everything I could. It is a rush of adrenaline, you just climb up and look around, everything looks amazing in the heights, as I reached the edge of the roof I push myself up and sit there to catch my breath., you just climb up and look around, everything looks amazing in the heights, as I reached the edge of the roof I push myself up and sit there to catch my breath. What? Almost 300m. Nice.
I heard a movement behind me and in a blur I had him down on his back with my left blade to his neck. But to my surprise it was Tøumd with wide eyes.
"Easy there, I'm not going to do anything" he said with his hands raised.
"Sorry I forgot that you learned how to climb rooftops" I said pulling my blade out and helping him to stand. His height towered me, almost two heads "I'm really sorry" I repeated
"It's nothing" he said laughing "but this time I really thought that you were going to do something" he added with a nervous laugh.
I just gave him a look and shake my head, I walked over a small balcony that watch over the city, you could see he fire lightning the streets. Light turning off and on. The same city that watch me grow and suffer will burn in a few days. I sat down on the edge dandling my foot on the air as Tøumd join me with a nervous expression.
"How could you not be afraid" he said pointing at the height and the huge death fall.
"You get used to it" I simply said "I've been waiting to die for a long time, so it will make no difference if I fall or not." I just raised my legs.
"hmmmm" he said grabbing the wall for dear life.
I looked around seeking for a guard to be eavesdropping our making guard but we were alone, no one was on the rooftops.
"I know the plans for the attack, I requested the port. We have to plan how we are going to make I happen. How we are going to approach them. And if they remember you." I said. I told him how we divided the guard's circles and how everything was controlled
"We can tell them that they are coming from land. There is a small port outside the city that nobody uses." He said "you can say that they have arrived there, the gate is closer to the palace so everyone will go and make the wall there"
"That actually is not a bad idea" I said thinking all the cons a pros. "we still need people".
"Really one assassin can't kill one of us, trust me, if we warn them. We are five times stronger than you" he said.
"Yes but we are ten times faster than you, you have strength. We have the speed and the precision" I added with a wave of hand.
"Fair point well" he said with a gesture of his hand.
"I want you to tell me" I said quickly looking at him and then toward the city that was sleeping under our feet "more stories of Kattegat. I want to know more of them"
"What do you want to know?" he said question looking at me "or perhaps who do you want to meet?" he said correcting himself.
We had this meeting of "people", we usually would describe them and tell me things about them, like what would they normally do in the day.
"I don't know" I said "the only one I know is Ragnar Lothbrok" I said.
"King Ragnar Lothbrok" he corrected.
"Oh so he is king?" I asked looking at him
"As far as I know yes" he said "I don't know now" he added sadly. "So who you want to meet?" he says again.
"I don't know" I said thinking "probably his sons? You told me he had many sons or so that said the seer" I answer myself and him.
"You want to meet the Ragnarsson" he said "Okay".
"first the eldest of the five" he says looking at the city " his name is Bjørn Ironside, his is tall, taller than me, he is very strong, he has blue eyes, he is an amazing warrior, really formidable, he went with his father to raid Paris and to England. He grew up with his father in the golden years, his mother is Lagartha, and he had an adopted member in the family that was a monk or a priest I am not sure which it is. So he has a very different mindset than most Vikings. If you ever meet him if you show you are not afraid he would probably listen to you. Before you ask I grew up with all the Ragnarsson."
"then comes the second eldest which is Ubba, he is very alike to his father or so is told, he is very loyal and kind to the people he cares about he is a very good warrior like his brother, he likes to go out and hunt. He loves and protects his brothers like a mama bear." He says and we laugh.
"Then comes Hvitserk, he is very lighthearted, but never be misled, he is very mysterious, and he is tall like all of us. He is a very angry aggressive warrior he is very good. He looks up at Ubba a lot. He likes to fight train with his brothers."
"Next is Sigurd snake in the eye, he has a snake in his eye. He is a light warrior, he is not as good as his brothers, and he prefers to play instruments than fight, so in our culture he is no warrior at all. That is why he was always excluded from us, he never really understood us when we play."
"And last but not the least there is Ivar the Boneless" he says looking at me this time " you will like a lot his story" he chuckles " from the name as you can hear, he has no bone in his legs, he always crawls around. Rumor has it that when he was a baby Ragnar left him to the wolves, but his mother Aslaug pick him and took him back to the house. He is very selfish, cruel, unpredictable and very wise. He loves a lot his mother and his brothers, Ubba always looks after him, even when he doesn't know" he says and claps his hands "well that is the end of the story telling, any questions?" he raised his eyebrows.
"Ivar can he walk?" I ask curious
"No, he can stand, but I never saw him walking..." he says murmuring "he was very neglected by his father and the people. It's hard to be a cripple or have something wrong with you in the Viking world, it's not like here that you, all the community helps them. Over there you are just by yourself, I mean his father left him to the wolves, what can you expect from him" he says deep in thought.
"Someone like me you say" I said turning to him "what can you expect from me. I have been whipped so many times that I lost count already, and still I will choose to be a monster and kill my father. That makes a monster like him. Because I am violent and cruel. I am the most unpredictable person in the palace and people fear me for it."
"but you are not like him" he says more likely convincing himself.
"what happen if I am?" I asked
"You haven't met him yet" he says "you do not need to trouble yourself."
"Do you think they will allow me to leave with them?" I asked "what happen if they say no?"
"Bjørn will never say no" he says "he loves meeting new people, he will take you and because you are a princess here they can't take you as a slave, we Vikings respect a lot the ranks of nobility either is from birth, rank or acquired. But that follows the way of death." He says
"I think we should go back, I don't want them to start searching for me again" I say with a smirk.
"Yeah" he says and goes to the way he climb up and ties a rope around his waist.
"Hey! That is cheating you have to climb without help." I say crossing my arms and walking towards him, and tugging at the rope and smile.
"Well I am not an assassin that knows how to handle themselves at heights" he says grabbing himself on the wall.
"Have a good night Tøumd" I say shaking my head and smiling, as I head out to my room. I climb the edge and dropped little by little until I reached my floor and swiftly I get inside my room.
I took off all my clothes and put on my silk nightgown and went to the jar and grab a cool glass of water. I unbraided my hair and went straight into my bed and lay there wide awake looking at the high sealing of my room. It really left me intrigued the last Ragnarsson, it seems that we was like me. A monster, not by choice but by how life was treating us. i want to meet them. I though.
How tall they are, how do they look, what would they say about me? I have so many questions and I am so thirsty for answers. And with that the tiredness crashes over me, dreaming to the five sons. The princes of Kattegat.
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