Svend Aze: Leaving Home.

chapter 3

It was allmost inaudible, he wouldnt have heard if not for the floorboard that creaked when stepped on.

Svend grabbed his axe but left the shield and crept to the window, he didnt see anyone but heard the slight creak of the door.

Svend crept to door of his room and looked out and saw someone looking at a carved figure made from elephant tusk, they were rare in this part of the world and it would fetch a fine price at a local shop.

Svend crept up behind the person which he now realised was a boy shorter then he was but still a good size the boy went to spin around but stopped as he heard svends voice "move another muscle and i seperate your head from your body."

The boy didnt know if svend was able to as he didnt know he had the axe but the tone of his voice told him not to risk it.

"Dont hurt me" he cried svend told him to turn around he noticed the boy had blonde hair but was darkend from dirt, his left eye was black from a brusie he guessed his thieving hasnt gone so well lately.

"Im not a thief" the boy yelped "funny thats what it seemed u were doing" Svend replied with a bored tone of voice "i needed somewhere to stay i had no idea you were here" the boy said svend thought for a minute or two.

"Allright you can stay but you owe me." the boy agreed happily he hadnt slept in a proper bed or had a friend since his parents were killed in a battle.

"Now come with me." Svend said he took him to one of the slaves old quarters and told him to stay he shut the door and bolted it, he went to his room and went back to sleep.

He woke up the next morning and decided if he was going to travel he would need a friend and so this boy seemed to be fairly loyal he woke up to find the boy making breakfast.

"What the hell i bolted that door shut." svend exclaimed "you forgot the other door" the the boy said in a matter of fact tone, svend in truth had no idea about the other door.

He sat down at the table as the boy put a meal of eggs and cold meat on the table.

"Whats your name boy." said Svend
"My name is roni, i have been barely surviving since i was 10. Ive been a slave to a man for the last 2 years but he was abusive so i ran away."

"Do you have any skills." svend asked in a conversational tone.
"Im a good swordsman i was trained by my father but i dont have a sword at the moment." a quick nod from svend told him to keep going.

"I am a good hunter and good at fishing, i know a fair bit of cooking from my time as a slave." svend nodded he would certainly come in handy.

As the morning went by svend noticed that the boy, roni went out of his way to do as much as he could around the house.

Svend decided it was time to see what he had a use for he went to the shed at the back which was about the same size as the cabin but it had less windows.

Svend opened the shed with roni standing behind him they looked around and there was a mass of weapons, shields, and tools to repair the items there were other things of value but Svend wasnt interested in most of it.

"Grab what ever you want and find a pack too we will be moving out tommorow." At that the two boys went around inspecting everything Svend who was happy with his axe and shield looked at some of the seaxes his knife was very old and all though it was looked after well he figured he might as well get a seaxe while he had that chance, seaxes are better then the knife he had anyway it was on the small side and not too usefull other then for carving.

He looked through the ones his uncle had collected, his uncle had a thing for them clearly.

He found one he liked, it had a wood handle and had patterns in the blade, he wasnt normally one for showy things like this but he decided that he liked it so that was that.

He found some other things he liked aswell, a leather bound journal he couldnt write but if he found someone who could teach him this would be usefull but he can allway draw in it, he also found a new bedroll it was of better condition then his old one and was considerably warmer. "Theres some bedrolls over here"svend called to roni.

As he explored the shed he found a map of the areas nearby and folded it up and placed ut in his new journal.

He came across some spices which he put in his pack, he went to see what roni had gathered roni had picked out a sword and a shield and had placed them to one side and was putting some things in his pack, he had grabbed a bedroll and was strapping it on his pack.

Roni had found some good quality clothes to go with it.

The two boys decided they would go off and set everything to order roni had a good bath.

Svend was surprised after a good bath and in better clothes roni looked like a formidable warrior.

The boys enjoyed a good meal and had an early night, svend was excited about what was to come and he thought of the meal he just had and realised neither of them had thought of a way to hunt.

He decided that in the morning he would get two of the bows and some arrows from the shed and on that thought he fell asleep.