When I can drown in blood, I can lay on the ground !

5 month later

POV Lilith
I Was now getting huge. The child was growing and growing. Sometimes I felt it kick.
Ivar was training and doing many meetings. But in every free minute he had, he spent it with me and Hvitserk.
Hvitserk was now my best friend. We had a lot of fun talking, taking small trips and mocking
Ivar. Making him mad.

I haven't heard anything from my brother In The 5 month I had been here. I missed him....sometimes. He was so different from the boy I used to know. Kattegat was now my home. And I enjoyed it.
I went out hunting as much as I could to not totally losing my fighting skills.

"Lilith? Hi." Vanessa -a young slave girl I got friends with- said. I was about to peel the skin of the fish when she sat beside me. "Hi."
"Here!" She handed me some fuzzy, brown-white gloves.
"Wow they pretty. Did you make them." Her smile got bigger and I touched her arm.
"I did, thank you... they are for you."
"What?" I did very well understand what she said but I didn't understand why she would make gloves for me.
"Yes. Well you said you needed some new gloves now were the winter is gonna be longer than we thought." I couldn't believe it. Probably because I never had friends or anyone doing anything for me ... "what do you want for them?" Her eyes got big before she started to laugh. "Nothing! Oh Odin. I made them because I wanted to make you a present."
My heart melted. I had never got anything for free or just because someone wanted to make me happy. "Oooh, thank you so much."
I hugged her for a long time. Saying how thankful I am over and over again.

It was getting late and we waited for the dinner to be served. I was In between Ivar and Hvitserk and tried as good as possible to follow what they talked about. Soon after the table was full of potatoes, meat and berries.
"We shouldn't be so soft and stupid about this! This christian king Stefan is threatening Kattegat. My kingdom! And you think I shouldn't be concerned." Ivar talked loud and sharp that everyone stopped eating and looked at the man he yelled at. "My king. It would be stupid to think that these Christians can do anything about us. We are way stronger than them." The older man argued. I already knew that the man would end with his hand cut off, if he didn't stop talking as if he knew everything better. He didn't.
"That's not a reason to not do anything! Do you even know what was standing in the letter? NO! They said they wanted this land. Make us believe that a virgin woman was the mother of their gods son! You want to believe something stupid as that????!!!! Do you? You are welcome to! But that will mean that you lose your head. I will personally cut your throat open, Rip it of your head with my bare hands and stick it on my sword while I burn your body."
He said it so slow and quiet that you could feel the words in every part of your body. I had to smile behind my cup.
"My kin..." he got cut off from Ivars finger in the air. "If you say one more word I swear to all of my gods that you die!"
After that the man didn't even dare to breath. Hvitserk and I had to give each other the so-typical-Ivar-look.

Ivar was crawling into our bed were I was already laying waiting for him.
He laid his arm around me so I could lay my head on his chest.
"Is he dead?" I asked him after a while.
We looked at each other and I could sense a smile on his lips. "What makes you think that?"
I laughed. "Ivar, I know you and the way you looked at that man you would have killed him right at the table."
Everyone knew Ivar was impulsive and aggressive and that every little thing could trigger him.
"He drowned after bumping his head into an axe."
We both ended up laughing till our stomachs hurt.