Grey Souls

The Most Natural

Daga had searched for hours through the town and surrounding woods and yet she found nothing. No trace of her beloved Bjorn who had seemingly disappeared the night before with out a trace. No note. No sign of his tracks or direction or destination. Absolutely nothing.

Daga felt her self deathly calm. She knew he wouldn't dare leave with out some sort of a notice would he? He wouldn't dare to leave her behind if something important was needed to be done. Would he? She followed the footsteps she knew belonged to a certain blonde woman whose newly acquired title was that of a Princess but much like herself she preferred to do things her own way.

Coming around the break in the trees she watched the young blonde woman pull the fishing cage up onto the shore line before bending down to unhook her line from the side of it. Daga silently made her way over to the woman standing a few feet back as she read the woman's body language. Thorunn wasn't the lest bit concerned about her husband which meant she knew exactly where he was.

"Where did he run off to Thorunn?"Daga asked calmly scaring the blonde woman making her loose her balance and fall side ways staring up at her in shock and slight fear.

"Princess Daga you frightened me. I'm sorry but what are you asking?" Thorunn asked trying her hardest to play confused but Daga saw through it as she suddenly found her self picking the young woman up by her neck lifting her single handedly up into the air where she began to sputter and kick and choke.

"I'm warning you Thorunn, do not test me dear girl. I will ask you once last time where in all of the Nine Realms is Bjorn?" Daga softly growled her eyes a blinding feral yellow.

"I do not know I swear." Thorunn lied once more closing her eyes in exhaustion as she slowly but surely began to turn a light purple-blue color before being roughly dropped onto the hard damp ground. Thorunn sputtered and coughed and gagged as she desperately tried to get her breathing under control again. The blonde woman looked up to see a highly dangerous and feral looking Daga giving her a mocking grin with a twinkle in her eyes she couldn't really place "Well, you're loyal to my brother I give you that. I must warn you though if you do not explain to me where my brother is I'll kill you and your unborn child without a second glance and tell Bjorn you've been having a scandalous affair with his best friend you're so close to and that the child you held in your womb wasn't even his." Daga smirked her eyes blazing while her sharp k9s peeked up over her bottom lip giving her a fierce grin that alone made Thorunn quiver but her words made her piss herself in the shallow puddle of water she had landed in as she stared horrified at the slightly older woman as if she had never truly seen her before.

"You would do that to Bjorn?" Thorunn asked utterly horrified causing Daga to release a sudden animalistic cross between a laugh and a growl causing a heard of ravens to suddenly leave the trees behind her and the water of the sea its self to shudder violently. Daga crouched down towards the younger woman her head turned side ways her eyes swirling with a moving ring of crimson that would move towards her pupil before shooting out and moving back and it seemed to get brighter and thicker in width as it moved toward the pupil before thinning once more as it moved back outwards.

"There is no line I wouldn't cross, nothing I wouldn't do in order to protect my children. Regardless of who brought him into this world, regardless of who he marries where he goes or what he does in this life or the next he will never be yours. Bjorn is mine. He is one of mine. He is one of my children and if you keep withholding information as to his where abouts I will ruin everything you have worked so hard to build with a singly flick of my wrist Slavegirl.

Thorunn took a shaky deep breath as she lowered her gaze in shame, her eyes flowing freely with heavy tears.

"He went further North. He left alone and he left last night. He took only a satchel full of supplies. He said the Gods were trying to show him something and he had to stop his pride and listen to them as his sister was so easily able to do in order to achieve his full potential. He said he saw a vision in his dreams of a snow covered land and a large hole in a frozen body of water, he said there was blood on the ground leading to the hole and his hands were covered in the red."