Morning came like a breath of fresh air through my window, nothing on the mind for the moment. Not my past not my Future, for right at this moment it was just me, the sun and Helda next to me sleeping. I slowly got up out of bed and got dressed as I was supposed to find somewhere to put the new Hall for the historicly changing meeting in a half of a year. I stepped outside for a bit to see that no one was up yet execpt for Kel. I walked all over checking a few places to build on but Then I came across a large part of the forest that was right by the Chief's Home. I would have to clear out the trees but I could build there.
I went to see Helga and I found her sitting in her map room in her home. She was looking at where the Manticores would possible be located. Without a second thought I point to the area near the mountain base. "They live right here, It would take us a day or so to get there by foot, but by flying only a few moments." I said to her and she seem to jump with seeing me so close without hearing me. She composed herself and asked, "did you find a spot to start building that meeting hall?" I shook my head "Yes" and had her follow me right to the spot. He took a step out and I pointed to the wooded area.
"Right here would make a great place, it's right across from the main Hall. I could even use the wood I cut down from the trees here without wasting anything." I told her and she thought I was a good spot too, She then let me start when ever I wanted to. I went back to my place and I grabbed a few axes that I had made months back. Brad saw me and came with me to help me out with the cutting. When we got to the spot I saw some of the Villagers wanted to help us with anything that they could do. I had then trimme all the trees of their bark so we could make lumber after we were done clearing the way.
We work for a bit till I felt my hands started to burn from all the chopping. Even with having superhuman like strength the reputation of hitting a tree over and over it draining. I walked over to the step by the Chief's home looking at how much we did. Ursa came by with a cup of water for me and handed it to me telling me, "Roni is here for you." I took the cup from her and I got up to find Roni, he was right by the docks talking with Kel. Roni seemed to laughing and smiling with her, I didn't really want to stop that but I had to see what he needed. "Hey Roni, what did you need from me?"
I asked him as Kel patted Roni's shoulder and headed back to my Smith shop. "My parents will help you with this meeting of Nations in a few months." He said and I was waiting for a "but" then he told me about the catch. "We need you to fix some important things In our village, Somethings my family need to live a healthy life." I raised my hand stopping him as I said, "Yeah I can do that in the morning, I'll just have my brother work on the trees for that new hall while I'm over in your village." I watched him smile for a moment, we then both looked over to the setting sun on my second day home.
"Moments like these makes you think, why do we even fight." I said watching the sun go down even further with Roni. "Yes I agree, this world holds so many treasures but we people tend to take it for granted." I left Roni by the docks to tell Brad about what Roni needed me for and he was understanding. "Well repairs for a guard squad seems like a fair deal, but I think you can make them something as a gift." He suggested and I agreed that I could add something fun for them. "Gotta make friends some how since we really Don't have any?" I said out loud as Kel and Helda came up from behind us.
"Future husband, isn't Kel a friend?" Helda asked me and I insteantly regretted that comment. "I mean a different kind of friend, someone I made on my own, someone like.." I was saying when Kel looked right at me. "You and I are friends no matter if my little friend Helda is you Wife or not." She said slapping my back, I laughed a bit then I apoligized. Kel felt no harm with my words, though she did understand my reasoning. "I feel that you made a good friend in Roni with protecting his family like you have." Helda said to me as I went into the shop area.
I smiled and agreed with her on that comment, then I pulled out my skillet that I had made. "Let me make dinner for us all, I'll even make it a meat dinner too." I said to them and they all smiled about me making dinner. I then pulled out a couple things of boar and chicken and made a good small feast with the veggies we had with it. We then sat and ate at the table enjoying the food. Kel was confused on how someone like me can cook, fight, smith and being nice on top of all that. Usally Viking people where mean or at least the men were, but for me I was different. I never went out of my way to make someone feel like crap.
She kept her thoughts to herself as we all cleaned up after dinner. Then I went to sleep to get my morning started with traveling to the Manticore Village. I could hover a bit with my magic so I could get there just as fast as Manti did. I layed my head down to feel that Manti and Helda both were laying on my chest. I smiled a bit then I passed out without a second thought. Then that next morning I got up early without waking anyone up and I flew to the village. I landed just on the outside of the forest to see that Slay was up looking at what broke this morning. I walked right up to him and saw it was their storage room.
"I can fix or replace that If you want, I bet there are others like this?" I asked him without saying hello, which spooked him a bit. "Yes, we have a couple buildings like this with my people living in them. We don't have any skilled craftsmen since the one we had died ages ago." He said to me and I smiled a bit looking at what I need to do to fix the building. "I can fix this today and I'll get to the others as well, well the ones with Manticores living in them. I wouldn't feel right not doing at least that today." I then pulled out my tools and I made a couple wood cutting tables before I went hard on the buildings.
I checked on each building to see what I all needed then I went to work. I saw the only thing that was wrong with the storage building was the rotten floors and roof. I fixed and built a new roof with in a couple hours. I then fixed all the homes that had weak floors in them. I could see that most of the Manticores didn't like me much but were told to let me work. As I was fixing a relative of Manti's, her Aunt and Uncles place. They had a bunch of younger kids running around but not near me. One watched me from back yard closely, she thought I was a weird human and told me so.
"You act funny, why don't you fear us like the other Humans do?" The little one asked me and I laughed, "Ah, I guess it's because of Corie, she wasn't hostile towards me so I guessed that her people were like her." The little manitcore heard me say her cousin's name and got closer. "How did you meet her, no one tells me anything?" She asked me and I told her about the hunting story, I could she was worried about the contract familar stuff. "I would let her free if I knew how to un do it, she's a free spirit like me. I'm not going to control her at all, she's a friend, more like a sister."
I said finishing up the last board as the little girls Father came around the corner. He saw I was talking with his youngest, at first he was mad but then saw she was smiling. Then he heard me say before I saw him. "I have a deep respect for Corie's family, they protected my village when I was gone on my trip. I'll do what I need to do to repay them, fixing a couple buildings is just icing on the cake." Manti's Uncle walked up to me. "I see that my little Lily kept you worken, I'm Cork by the way." He held out his hand and I shook it, "She was asking me questions about how Mant, I mean Corie was doing. Doing a job like this is a change of pace from my day to day."
Cork smiled a little bit and asked me, "how is my Corie doing I haven't seen her in a couple years after she left home?" I looked at him and I said, "Well, she's been fine for what I can tell. She's taught me magic and how to fight here and there. For the most part she's been keeping my village a safer place to live." I then told him about the pirates and why his family guarded the village for thoughs months. He didn't smile but he understood, "I heard that you guys are going to have a meeting of some kind in a couple months. My brother said that you requested to have our people act as guards why is that?"
He asked me and I told him why I needed them. "The leaders of the Beastmen Nations will be there, I suggested we get your people to act as guards to make them feel welcome. Plus you'd be all unbiased being nonhumans yourselves." The man turned away and then turned back to agree with my reasoning for needing his people. Let's go talk to my brother then, this is a better reason that what I was being told." He let me pack up my tools and then we headed to see Slay and Cory. Who were sitting on the porch steps eating a snack of some kind.
They looked up and saw us walking together but with a perpose, Slay knew what it was about and was going to say no. But then I got to my knees, then I told him my reason for requesting help once more. As I told him the longer reason of why I needed the Help of the Manticore. Cory wanted my to stand and look them in the eyes, I raised my head and stared at them. "I don't want anyone to get hurt on either side, I've seen to much death in my life time." Cory had me sit with them after I said that last part, "How have you seen that much, you don't seem like you've seen battle at all?"
Cory asked me as I took of my shirt to show her the wounds on my back. "I'm not from this world originally, I'm from one similar to this one. In my time in my world I was part of a grand military unit known as The Hounds. We were responsible to track down and eliminate dangerous groups, I was tasked on scouting out areas. Most of the time I was the first person to find them or see the death left behind. One mission, my last mission I failed on saving a child from those monsters. I retired and I went back to school to become a teacher." I started to tear up then I said braking my sadness.
"I wouldn't ask you guys to help me out again if I didn't have to, but I don't want to see un needed killing or another war braking out." Cory, Cork and Slay looked at eachother, then Cork spoke first. "I would offer my services if you'd accept his request brother?" Slay seemed to give up on saying now as he shook his head "Yes" I felt excited but I didn't show it. "We can do it but I'll expect you repay us in full when we request for your help." He said to me and I told him, "I have that covered, I'll help you build up the village to even better than it was, make it more comfertable."
We looked up to see the sun was getting high in the sky, "you fixed enough today, you can head home if you want?" Slay said, I waited a second then I stood up. Then when I was leaving I saw that Lily wanted to see me off. "Tell Big cousin Corie we all miss her," I patted her head I said back to her. "I'll be sure to let her know Lily, now I best be getting home my brother needs my help with work." I then lifted off the ground as everyone waved goodbye. Lily was suprised I could fly but she waved as I flew off to my village.
For the next few weeks I went back and forth to the Manitcore Village and my own building and fixing everything. Sometimes when I need an extra pair of hands I'd bring Kel, Brad and Manti with me. Everyone in the village started to become more comfertable with me there with each passing day. Then when I was done with the last building at the Manitcore Village, Slay asked me. "When that meeting is over would you make a road for both of our villages?" I looked at him while I was sitting on the steps I just made, I looked confused then he said. "We want to start trading our products to make our village better."
He said taking me to the storage room, I saw they had piles of some kind of spice and pelts of animals that were hard to hunt. "Yeah I can do that for you, but that might take over a year the normal way. Or I can use my fire magic a control burn the trees away." I said telling him that I could control the fire when I'm focused. We agreed to the faster method. I made my way home after that and I looked up over my head to see that a white light was shinning over head. I then saw a figure fall like I did when I came through something like that.
I flew faster to the Village and saw the thing that came through was someone I knew. I looked back up to see another person was coming through, I flew up to catch them. I landed on the ground and sat the person next to other one. Half the village were crowding us when I saw the portal thing closed faster this time. Brad came over to me to see who came through, "Bro, these two?"He said and I shook my head "yes" as we were worried. I watched the first one wake a up a bit to see Me and Brad looking right at him. "Cousin, is that really you?" The guy said grabbing my face, checking to see if it was really me.
"Yes, Jared it's me and Brad's here too." I said as he looked at my brother, "are we dead. why are we surrounded by strange womem?" He said getting up off the ground, He saw the other person out cold on the ground was his own brother. I told one of the girls to get Astrid, they froze up for a moment but then ran to Astrid. I picked up my second cousin and met Astrid half way to the first Hall. She saw me with two new men. She looked at my face as I laid down my younger cousin on the table. Astrid checked him over then told me he was fine just knocked out cold. Then she looked at my other cousin who was darker than this one.
"Who are these two men, why do you know them?" Astrid asked me and I told her straight out, "These two are my older Jared and younger Cousin Dom from my world. A huge portal like the one I was brought through dropped them off right by the docks. I don't know why but I do know they'er scared right now since they don't speak your tongue at all." I was saying in Nordic the whole time as Jared was wondering what I was saying. He knew that I only knew two languages from my days after my military days from school. "where are we Jacob, are we in the past?" Jared asked me and shook my head "No."
"We are in another world like ours but as you can see the Vikings are still here. Plus others I'll show you later or if she shows up soon?" I said to him and he seemed to get scared for a moment. I saw Helga and Helda walk into the room to see what happened. "I see we have to weirdly dressed men in here, where did they come from Jacob?" Helga asked me and she dropped her jaw when I told her. "Are the gods planning something we should be worrying about?" Helda asked and I shrugged, Jared who couldn't conversate grabbed me and asked me to tell him what I was saying.
"They're worried something is coming since you came through the portal, the goddess Fraya brought my here eight months ago to unite something. Did you see a strange figure before you wen through the portal or that white light?" I asked him and he said back to me, "A raven flew in front of us when Dom and I were searching your old home for you. We then fell and then I woke up to seeing you looking right at me." I looked at Astrid and Helga when he said Raven, "I think Odin did this one this time?" I said to them and they seem to calm down, Jared saw that and asked me what that meant?
"Odin brought you here for some reason, that is the god they pray to here, welcome to Raven's Beak." I said taking him out to see the village, Jared didn't want to go outside but Brad said. "I'll watch over Dom, Don't worry Jared you'll be fine." Jared went with me to see Manti looking right at us, "bad timing but he was going to run in to her sooner or later." I said out loud, he got nervous as I told him what this world had different from our old one. "This world is like a fantasy anime, like summonded to another world with magic, monsters non human people. This woman right here is my contracted famliar to put it simply."
"This is Corie, she's a Manticore and a good friend of mine cousin." I told him and he seemed to understand but not really, then Manti turned into her normal form for a minute to show off. Jared seemed to jump back but his brother came out to catch him. Dom had woken up when we left and Brad told him about what was going on. Like me he accpeted what had happened and came to check on his big brother." Dom saw Manti and said, "cool, this is like a anime then but for real?" He asked me and I shook my head "Yes" then we calmed down Jared. This took a while, I decided what happened to me and Brad over the year.
He listened for the most part as everything set in till I told him I was engaged to marry a Viking Princess. "After only eight months of being here you found love and a home, did you ever plan on going back home?" He asked me and I said back to him, "No, Brad might but I found my place, where I belong is here with my future wife." He smiled a bit, "Let me guess that younger one who came into the room earlier with us?" I laughed, "No, the one with bright green eyes who walked into the hall after we had put Dom on the table. Her name is Helda, she was the second King's Guard captain and daughter of the first King."
I saw he was looking around and saw all the adults were Woman as we talked for a bit. "Whats with all the Woman, don't they have any men around?" Jared asked me and I shook my head "No" then I told him what happened to the men. He looked sorry for them and then Helda came out to check up on me. "Are these two ok Jacob, Astrid told me a bit of what's happened?" She asked me and I told her, "Jared here is feeling disoriented but he's ok for the most part, maybe food would help him settle?" I suggested and she agreed, but she was concerend that they could speak Nordic.
She said that and Manti got a funny look in her eyes then she put her hand on both Jared and Dom. The she hit them with green energy, I went to stop her but Jared said in Nordic. "Why did you hit me with that?" Helda gave him a weird look and asked, "can you say that again?" Jared turned around and said it again, "Why did you hit me with that?" I looked at Manti, "Corie did you do that?" I asked her and she told me that she gave him and Dom the knowladge to speak Nordic. I didn't know she could do that but that fixed the communcation issue. Then she told me that they could speak English when I speak it.
Jared seemed to be overwhelmed a bit, but then I asked if everyone was hungry? Jared nodded and so did everyone else, So I went back into the hall to start a huge dinner for everyone. Jared sat near me as his Brother explored the area with Brad. He asked me about how this world was. "It's a calm one but it has it's problems like ours did, like right now the Nation's of the Beastmen are trying to start a war with the Viking Nation to the south. I'm being tasked on heading a meeting to stop this with both parties in a few months." He looked at me like that was crazy, "You mild mannered Jacob?"
He said to me almost laughing, "Yeah me, I'm a bit of a celebrity for my Smithing work and the fact I'm open about being from another world. The second King came here once last year and appointed me as his personal smith. After that I started to become a valued memeber of this small village as another leader. Our Chief wanted to give her title to me but I'm moving to the capital in the future." I said to him as he heard a large person come through the front doors. He saw a giant of a woman coming right at him, he looked startled but didn't move at all.
"ah, this is Kel, She's a half Giant and a smith learning at my shop of how to make weapons like I make. She a friend of mine and Helda," I told him and he got up to shake her hand. She smiled at him and He introduct himself to her.. "I'm Jared, I'm Jacob's older cousin from.." He was saying as she gave him a huge hug, "Glad to meet you little man, I'm Kel." She then let him down and as he hit to ground he let out a huge gasp. "Helda said that you were making dinner for everyone tonight, so I came to help out if you need me?"
I looked at her and I smiled, I'm good for the important part but you could help Jared clean off the tables." I said to her and she nodded as she dragged him along with her. Jared looked at me while he was being dragged. "You'll pay for this one!" He mouthed to me, I laughed as I finished the cook on the dinner. All I had to do is wait for the tables to be cleared. When it was time for dinner a few people came with Brad and Dom. I put servings on the tables and we all sat down together for a grand meal for the new arrivals. I sat with Jared and Dom who were on both sides of my, Helda sat across from us with Brad.
Helda seen I was really smiling when I looked at both of my dear close cousins. "Are you really that close with these two were your real smile shows up?" She asked me as I looked right into her eyes. "I nodded and I told her. "These two here are more than cousins to me, they are brothers. we all are close to the same age and we grew up together doing everything together. Three out of the four of us had a career in the Military for many years." She saw us look at the person who didn't join the military and that was Brad. "I can see the bound you four have, I just only seen you smile when you talk with someone you truly love or like."
She said to me and I was shocked she picked that up even being around me all these months. "I never not smile but I'm suprised you spot my real smile." I said to her and she placed her hand on mine, "I saw it once when you gave that gift to that boys mother. Then I saw it once when you came to the Capital back in the start of spring." Both my cousins looked at my brother and they looked uneasy. I put my hand on top of Helda's for a moment. I guess that means you make me really happy then, even when I have.." I then saw Astrid come up to the table, she was drunk when I was here that first week.
She took a second then she sat right next to Dom then looked right at him. "You look nothing like those two, what makes him your family?" She said pointing right me, Dom gave her a funny look then she asked Jared the same question. "His mother is my Aunt so thats how we are family, what makes you a Viking?" He said right back to her, She looked at me and I shrugged. "Go lay down Astrid you're drunk and asking dumb questions again." I said to her and she blinked at me, "Sorry, sorry just had a thing on my mind, I'll go to bed now." She said going to her bed room not far from us.
We all looked at eachother and we started to laugh a bit. "Whats with her, is she like that all the time or just with you?" Jared asked me and I told him that she was worse when we first arrived to this village. As we talked and ate the night away Helga came in to get some food and rest. She sat with us as we traded stories of our shared past for everyone else. Then it came time to go to bed which was going to be difficult. Jared and Dom had no place to stay so I had to make them one in Brad's room for the time being. As we entered into my home I saw that Kel had been busy making new axes and knives.
They looked like mine but seemed a bit to heavy as I picked them up. Kel looked at me wondering if I liked them but saw me tossing them around to feel the weight. "What did you do differently this time, they seem stronger but their still heavy?" I asked her and she told me just stretched the metal out more to lessen the weight. I shook my head in dissapointment, then I went to forge where she had a ax head sitting on the anvil. I started heating up the head to show her why I am able to make my iron lighter. I saw the head had a bunch of impurities in the blade part. "See those dark spots in the blade, those are thats what you work on."
I hit the blade over and over till the bad metal fell off the blade. I then showed her with the last heat up, we saw that the dark spots were now gone. Kel softly smaked her forehead as she understood why I took extra swings at the metal. While I showed her that my cousins made their beds and went to sleep. Today was a rough one for them to say the least, with going from our old world to something medieval in nature. I sat in my bed with Helda laying on my chest as I thought of a way to help out Jared and Dom. "Maybe when I get done with the Hall fully I can make them a small house near us?"
I said to the cool air as I heard a storm getting close, I got up quickley and I closed the windows as rain it my roof. I then got back into bed and I fell asleep listening to the rain above me. As I dreamed I could see that I was in a golden world looking over a earth but not mine. I knew where I might be and turn to see if I could see Fray. Instead I saw a large dark haired man with Ravens on his shoulders. He had a smile on his face but it didn't feel like a safe smile. "Young warrior, you seem uneasy with my presence are you afraid of me?" The man asked me and I shock my head "No" Then I said, "I'm just cautions since you're Odin."
His eyes got wide but he looked more impressed with me knowing who he is. "Yes, I am Odin but how did you figuar that one, was it my Ravens or was it my eye patch?" He asked me trying to get to my level. "Well, I met Fraya when I was brought to that world. With my cousins saying they saw a raven when they brought to Raven's Beak. I just put two and two together, I studied Norse culture in my younger days." I said back to him, he saw that I was getting used to him being infront of me. "You wish to ask me a question, you can ask it since we have a bit of time." He asked me and I just stood there for a moment.
"Why were we brought to that world, I am supposed to stop this impending war or to unite a world under one ruler?" I asked him and he just smiled at me, "Ah she never told you why we choose the four of you. Well, I can only tell you it was to push them into a evolution to make them better or force them to fall." He answered me and as I went to ask him another question I was thrown back into my sleeping body. I woke up slowly to see Helda looking right at me with a smile. She kissed my forehead then she got up and got dressed. I sat up then sat over the edge of the bed looking out at the window.
It was still raining pretty hard so I wouldn't be working, So I decided to show Jared around the Village a bit. Also teach him what I knew about this world a bit more, He was a soldier so adapting is a part of him that can't be broken easliy. I gave him my hooded jacket I wore on rainy days and I put on a new one I was given from Helda. We went outside and then I took him hunting for a bit, we walked to were I first met Manti. "Counsin, why haven't you come back to our real world?" Jared asked me making conversation, I shurgged "I don't know, we don't even know if we can go back since we were brought her by Odin and Fraya."
I told him and he gave me a weird look then spun me around. "Wait they really exist, and why did they bring us here?" He asked me and I laughed, "It's to help unite or be the cause of this worlds petty squables. They both didn't really tell me why they choose us like they did, gods can be very frustraiting at times here." I said as I brought us down to the ground, I pointed out to get Jared attention before he asked me another question. We both saw a magical creature eating grass right infront of us. It was a unicorn like horse but it had two horns instead of one.
We sat there for a moment to hear a thump behind us. I turned around to see Little Lily from Manti's home village staring at us. I sat on the ground and I laughed as my heart seemed to skip for a second. Jared looked confused on what was infront of us, "This is Lily, she's Corie's younger Cousin and a manticore." I said to Jared and he seemed to panic a bit. She came up to me and asked who the new man was? "Ah, Lily this is my own cousin, his name is Jared and is living in my village for a while." I said to her and she smiled at him not showing any kind of fear.
"This world is a bit to much Jacob, monters, creatures like that and magic, can you even do magic?" He asked me and I smiled a bit, "Yeah I can do you wanna see?" I asked him back and he nodded for me to show him. I had Lily stand back a bit then I casted a ball of fire in the middle of my hand. Then I changed it into shapes as he kept watching me till we spooked the unicorn away. "Wow, magic is really real, do you know anything else or is that it?" He asked me and I held out a kife for him, "I have iron hard skin from my partnership with Corie." I dragged the blade across my arm to see nothing happened to me.
"Can I learn magic too or do I need to get me a familar too?" He asked me and Lily spoke up to answer that question. "If you were brought here by the Gods they might of given you a magic linked to your personality." She said sounding like an adult for a moment while she skipped away and left us. Jared and I looked at eachother for a moment, "If that's the case we sound go back and see if we can find a magic book of some kind." We returned to the village and checked out if we did have magic books or something like that. When we got there we felt the rain stop, "ah looks like I'm back to finish my job."
I said to Jared and he decided to put his magic research on hold. He instead came and helped me with my work with Brad. Dom on the other had worked along side Astrid to see how she healed people. As the moment of arrival of my cousins to finishing my work load in just two months. Now today it's been two weeks since my cousins showed up. We were on our way to back home from the Manticore village. Lily from when Jared first met her told her clan about the new arrival of humans to the Viking village. At first everyone was conserned about having another human in their village but saw they were like me.
As everything was setteling I decided to train with the Manticores with my magic alongside Jared and Dom. They wanted to learn magic from anyone and why not it be the Manticores right? So every other week we would spend our mornings training over in the newley improved Manitcore Village. Roni taught me more about his families magic and shared information on his people. "We don't just all do the same type of magic. Yes, my clan has their fire magic but for the others they each have their own element or type. Like or our cousins they knew wind and healing magic, for the second family near the front of the village."
"They know Ice and water magic depending on gender, for you three I think that Jared should learn fire like you. Dom the second youngest of you should learn wind and healing magic." He told us and I looked at Jared, "Yeah he's much like me in every way but has a quicker temper. Dom's been the chill one but not to relaxed, he's just a very calm man when it comes down to it." I said looking at both of my cousins. They saw I was messing with them a little bit but wanted to try their given choices. They went of to train with other memebers of the Manticore Village while I trained more with Roni.
We did this for three more months till it was time to set up for the meetings between nations. I had just got done using my fire to make a straight shot road from village to village when I saw the Ship of Thorin come into the bay. I ran right to the docks to be the first ones to greet them but Helda beat me. Her face was still but she had a bright smile across her face. "Hello my love I'm guessing you saw the Ship from the house?" I said to her and she nodded as we saw the ship stop right infront of us. One of the men threw a rope to me and I tied it off as the ramp came down.
The new Captain of the King's Guard came to greet us and saw that Helda was the one he saw from the ship. "My Lady it's been sometime, how have you both been?" He said shaking my hand as he realized who I was too. "Oh so great, Jacob here just came back from building the road to our allied Manticore Village." She told him and he saw a couple of our Manitcore guards fly around above the village. "So it is true, I do hope these meetings go as planned, we can't really afford a war when we haven't recovered yet." He said to the air thinking about the war he was last in.
"I agree, these people lost all their men in that last great war, I don't know how they all of these men would react to another big battle?" I responded and the man looked at me, "I forgot, King Thorin said you were from another world like ours." He said back to me and I nodded, then he asked me if my cousins were here? I nodded yes and pointed to Dom who was working alongside his brother and Astrid. "They are going to be part of the Manticore Guard to make sure peace is kept with our people too." I said to him and the Captain thought that was a good move on my part.
I threw my hands up and I said, "No no, that was on their own decisions, they've been stepping up after they realised we can't go back yet." Captain understood and left after that to check out the lodging for the Royals coming in. I had made an extra couple buildings with my extra time to make sure my cousins had a place to live and to make sure everyone was safe. King Thorin came down the ramp after all of his guards went before him. He saw Helda and I waiting for him just as King Canutis's ship came into the bay. "Ah good to see your faces again, Helda it's been to long since we've spoken."
He said greeting her with a smile, "Uncle it's only been six months, oh have you met Jared and Dom yet?" She asked him as he shook his head "No" and left to greet them. I waited to there to greet my future father in-law. As he came down the ramp after his ship settled he gave me a hug instead of a handshake. "Good to see you my son, where's my daughter?" He asked me as I told him she was with King Thorin with my cousins. "Ah I had almost forgotten your letter mentioned them, have they settled well?" He asked me and I shrugged, "Kind of, they believe they still can get home but you know how Odin is."
I said and Canutis nodded in agreement, "the gods can be a bit difficult to deal with. Though they are your family so they might do well, just keep an eye on them. They might be hidding how they really feel my Son."