Månen

CH.4

" Why were they chasing you??"

The question was broth up by Lukas as he sat down at the dinner table joining Mathias. It was asked quietly with the thought to not wake up the sleeping boy in the neighbour room. Still, the question was asked directly and seriously. 

" What, I wasn't I ..." 

"Don't try to lie to me, I saw it in your eyes, I also heard the horses running"  Lukas glace was steady, calm and emotionless.

Mathias could feel his heart beating faster and faster. How was he supposed to tell him, he didn't even know this guy? He couldn't tell him. If he knew they would throw him out for sure, look at him with shame and disrespect.   Mathias desperately tried to look for an answer but it was like his head froze. He should have seen this question coming. He twisted his thumbs nervously and looked up at Lukas' face. Then his mouth just began to speak of his own and suddenly he had said it.

"ehh I slept with the Danish princess"  

"What ?"  

"Sorry that is not true, I just needed a lie on the spot, sorry again. wait, are you blush ." Mathias pointed a finger at the other's cheeks. Then he was interrupted by the now flush pink Norwegian. 

" As I  was saying, I just need to know how this will affect me and my brother" Lukas was now calm again and very serious. He was simply afraid,  he didn't know what the Dane had done to have the Danish knights chase him, for all he knew Mathias was a dangerous criminal. But even though Lukas didn't talk with a lot of people he found it easy to see their intentions. He read them like sheets of paper.Lukas saw something in this Danes eyes, something real, those eyes were not a threat. 

"You can stay, for now, I kinda need a bit help before the winter anyways" Lukas held his emotionless look. As for Mathias, his grin riched from ear to ear.

"Thank you thank you " Mathias could not stop shaking the man's hand and almost jumping up and down in the chair.

"I am only doing this for my own benefit, don't forget that"  The Norwegian gave Mathias a glare and went to the kitchen to do the dishes. Mathias simply went to the bed that was made up for him in the living room and soon fell into a deep slumber. Something he had not done in a long time. 

Lukas would later see a goofy smile on the sleeping Danes face as he passed by on his way to bed next to Emil. This Danish boy sure is something for himself. Lukas thought, he had never met someone who was somehow so careless and free from all the struggles of the world. 

Lukas kept thinking as the night became darker and Emil's small breaths where sleeping beside him. Where did Mathias get all that fancy clothes from ? and all that money too? Was he a thief? Where he a high-class son or something? but then why where he so weird, awkward and childish?

Lukas rolled around on top of the deerskin. His little brother in his dirty white sleepwear was rolled around a bit. Now the duvet only covered half of his body. Lukas slowly reached out and covered the boy again. The child curled up again and found a comfortable position.

Lukas was often awake at night, the thoughts about their struggles were making him tired but unable to sleep. Soon the winter was here, with the frost that froze the scars and making them frozen in pain.The decisions about warmth or fire or food always raged in Lukas mind. The worrying of his little brother's health.

Mathias was now, even though he didn't know it, the brother last chance to not freeze or starve to death, 

Hi! I have been kind of busy lately, with a lot of exams, test and other school stuff. I  also went on tri in the weekend where slept outside and went kiting. (skiing after a big kite that drags you across the mountain)  It was really fun and it also reminded me of how cold it is to sleep outside even when there is just -5 (Celsius). I have slept outside in a lot colder before too and it inside a snow cave(what?? XD)

When I write I try to be as real as possible so I like to refer to real experience and for example the nature of Norway.  And I have to give credit to my younger brother who I kind of based Emil out of ( mixed with his "older" personality)

Kind of short chapter again but the next one is longer again:)

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