*Erik*
I can’t sleep. My brother is injured, and I may have given him my curse. The future of my village is destroyed. My wife is now injured even more than she was before. I can’t believe she fought in battle with her back like this while pregnant. She should not have bathed the children.
I carefully lift one of the cloths across her back to look. The cuts look less angry now, but they are bad. I had almost forgotten that I had hurt her through the ordeal, but it all came rushing back in when I saw her back. This will scar. It will always be a reminder.
We could heal her if we could turn her, Hati whispers in my mind.
You heard the Norns and Odin. We cannot make her wolf.
He’s right, though, and I think for a moment that it would be worth dealing with their wrath if I coul
