*Erik*
I helped her bathe and wrapped her back again as Thora had. It seems to help her, and for that, I am glad. We ate, fed Mani again, and have just been lying in bed. We’ve talked and laughed with naked skin caressing each other as our limbs have tangled together. This is what I’ve needed today: this closeness with my wife.
I tell her about going to see the seer. I tell her about the Norns and meeting Odin. I tell her what they told me and how precious she is to them.
“I’m nothing,” I say with a small laugh. “It’s about you. It’s always been about you.”
She smiles at me sadly. “You will have more descendants than you can possibly imagine. How can you think that you are not important?”
“I was so angry with Odin for saying that all wolves would come from me, but not you,
