*Erik*
“You don’t have to keep him with you,” Hvitserk tells me. While they are staying with Thora’s family and Anders in the barn, I decide to go to my old home, and Thorolf asks to join.
“It's fine,” I tell him. Besides, I think I like him, and he is determined to marry my daughter.”
He smiles at that. “He truly is.”
“I’ll bring him with me,” I tell him. “I need to see Inga before going to the house. Ellie sent something for her.”
He nods, and I walk off with the boy. We enter the center of the village and pass the barn that used to house the slaves. “Promise me, if you run off with my daughter and begin your own village, you will not have slaves.”
“We will not,” he says firmly, as if he and Mani running off together is something that he plans to have happen.
“The Jarl here
