Not Too Late

Feast

Yn's POV

I reluctantly follow her into the room off of the throne room. She leads me to a room. "We have a spare room off of our room that you can stay in tonight" I bow and she raises her hand. "Don't bow, you're our guest" "You're still a royal and I've learnt that being disrespectful to the ones being kind to you is ultimately not in my blood" "Very well" We turn a small corner before I see a small bed. "Rest easy Yn" She starts walking away from me. "How is it you know I'll be resting?" This woman knew nothing of what I would do for all she knew I could be planning to kill them. She turns around and smiles at me. "You hesitated before answering me, you go by a schedule and you also said you had one free day" "What I do doesn't concern you" I place my bag on the bed and in that time she spins around to face me.

"How long?" "Excuse me?" I look up at her expression and I instantly know what she means. "I don't know what you're talking about" "I think I know exactly what I'm talking about" She grabs my arm revealing the charcoal makes on it. "I didn't know what these were when you came in but now I know" I try and yank my hand away but she keeps a tight grip on it. "Let go of me" "Not until you tell me" "You don't care so don't act like it" I kick her in the kneecap and she lets go. I hold my arm close to me.

"Get rest Yn I mean it, I'll wake you when the feast is ready" She walks out and I roll my eyes. I lay back on the bed and stare at the ceiling.

Gunnhild's POV

I walk back into the great hall and sit on my throne beside Bjorn. "So?" "So what Bjorn?" "Is she joining us?" I look over to Torvi And Ubbe. "You two leave and get some rest" They nod and leave. "Bjorn not everything is about business" "Then what did you speak about?" "Nothing of your importance Bjorn, the concern right now is this feast we're holding for Yn" As I go to stand up he grabs my hand. "She killed our men" "and yet she is still a child" Bjorn looks at me like I've told him something that wasn't obvious. "What?" "How would you know that?" "Oh please Bjorn she's barely an adult she may have scars all over her face but you can clearly tell she's still young" I pull my hand away. "So let's set everything up. With that I walk away from Bjorn.

*

The feast is almost done and I made sure everything was perfect. It was yn's first time in Kattegat and I needed to make a good impression. I head into my room then walk through it to get to the spare room. As I turn the corner I see no Yn. I look around the room only to find the back door ajar. I head towards it with curiosity. I peak my head out of the door just a bit to find Yn with a little viking. I stand there and watch them.

Yn's POV

"You want to see something cool?" I watch as the little girl nods and smiles. I grab some mud, sticks, stones and leaves. I place them all together to make a little doll. I grab a piece of string from my clothing to tie it all together. I hand it to the little girl with a smile. She hugs it accidentally breaking it. We both look at each other and laugh. "How old are you little one?" "I'm six" My eyebrows raise in surprise. She looks much younger with her puffy baby cheeks and how short she is.

"Well I'm gonna give you something so you can defend yourself okay?" She nods excitedly. I smile at her enthusiasm. I reach into my bag to find my little knife. I smile as it's the first knife I've ever gotten and used. I hand it to her and she twists it in her hands. "Now you do that knife justice okay?" She nods. "But why would you give this to me?" "I have no more use for it and it's better me passing it on then letting it sit in my bag" She looks down at it and smiles. "I'll use it every day" "Good now you must go your mother would be worried"

She nods and runs off before coming to a halt. She spins around and looks at me. "What's your name?" "It's Yn" "it was nice to meet you Yn, My name's Thora" Before I could say another word Thora runs off into the village. As she disappears my smile seems to go with her. A tear slides down my cheek and I wipe it away. I stand up and start walking back into the home.

*

I sit in the corner of the throne room that they call the great hall. I swirl the liquid around in the horn/cup that Torvi of all people had given me earlier. I slyly smell it. I smell bit a couple of times to make sure I know what I'm smelling. In that time Ubbe comes over and sits beside me. "Enjoying yourself?" "So much" I roll my eyes. "you are unlike everyone here" His breath reeks of alcohol and I almost gag when the smell enters my nose. "That is because I do not belong here" "what have the vikings ever done to you?"

I look at him as if he's crazy. Maybe he is if he has to ask such an idiotic question. "Exist" I swirl the liquid in my cup around again and Ubbe notices that it is still full. "you haven't drank any?" I look at my drink before I look at him. "Why don't you drink it? I'm not an alcoholic" He looks at the cup before looking back at me. "one drink won't harm you" "Yes but it looks like you like to drink so please I insist" As I move the cup/horn thing towards him he moves back. I pour the liquid on the floor. "Next time when your wife wants to poison me make sure I can't smell it"

I roll my eyes. "I'm sorry okay I'll tell her to back off" "Just leave me alone, Ubbe" I get up and pull my hood over my head and walk out.