As we go through life

way down we go

***********Aidens pov ***********

"I've never believed in the supernatural, not the books I've read nor the fairytales my mother would read to me as I grew up. I guess it was hard to believe that a magical bean can save you from being poor or that a person was able to come in and change your life and youll ride off to the sunset into happily ever after.... I could never believe in that bullshi.  that's why I loved history. It was reality, that one decision leads to another then another and this was the world, but being stuck here in this time period made me realize something.  That reality meant nothing if you were not in control" ......

I cough out as I feel the air being kicked out of me and I find it hard to breath as blood gushed out my nose

"Just who the fuck do you think you are to talk down on us" one of the men Sigurd had sent to keep me in check shouted as he kept kicking me as another punched me

I let out a small chuckle spiting out the blood
"You punch like a bitch" I let a crooked smile show and it makes them even more angry as he put a sword into the fire making my eyes go wide I prepare to take the pain as I let out a scream as he came closer

"Let's see if that smart lil mouth of yours will keep talking after this" the man approaches me angered

"Hey... what's with all the noise" a man walks in looking drunk and notices making us all stop and look at him

"Who are you" he turns his head confused and I sigh

"Sigurd told us to question him but he won't say a word" the man with his sword in hand answers

"So instead of finding out you beat him" another man crawls inside making me look down at him

"Let him go you fools judging by the ink he's Viking idiots" the man spits

"But ivar... Sigurd said" the men holding me tries to say something but the man crawling gives him a death stare

"So you answer to Sigurd now" the deformed man speaks and the two mean looked terrified and I can swear I felt one of them tremble making me almost even chuckle

"This guy must be no joke" I think to myself

"Hvisterk get him a drink won't you, I'm sure he will be more than happy to tell us who he is"

The crippled crawls closer and gives me a smile but I can already tell this man was crazy and I had to be careful what I said or this will be the place I die

The drunk man that came in first hands me a cup as he took a chair and placed it in front of me

"Soo are you a slave" he says as I shake from the pain trying to grasp the cup

"No I'm not a slave, I got lost and stumbled across here by mistake" I answer and the drunk man nods as the crippled just stared me down

"So you are Viking" he asks and I respond quickly knowing the situation I'm in

"Yes"

"From where" the crippled doesn't take his eyes off of me..........."Norway" I say remembering its history and everything I knew about Vikings

"Norway" the drunk one says like he knew the Vikings from their very well "fuck"I think to myself

The cripple just looks at me trying to piece together who I was

"And whom do you serve" he asks

"No one, I serve under no one" I respond finishing my drink coughing up more blood that didn't wanna stop from flowing