Two days had passed since I’d returned home from my trip to parley with the other clans. I stood on the beach, staring at the final clan’s ships as they arrived. Clan Akefor and Clan Bjornvik had both arrived yesterday. This morning, Clan Brending was spotted on the horizon. Clan Hakon’s shores were now lined with warships, so many there was no place for a few of the larger ships to make landfall and they were held in the bay at anchor, their clan members ferried to the shore in dinghies. Clan Brending would have to leave all of their boats out at sea.
As soon as they arrived, the hustle and bustle of battle preparation would begin. We needed to be back on the ships and headed for Tara in two days. The sooner we got there, the sooner we could finish this and move on with our lives.
“Tak
