Blood Moon - Ned your help

"Fun? Recently.. Nothing. No time for fun."

"What about previously?"

"You won't be surprised.. We used to throw axes. Whoever hit the target the furthest away won."

"That explains how your so good with a axe."

"Mm, I was mediocre compared to my friends." He hummed. "What about you.. Hobbies?"

"Well I sew, cook, I love hore riding and I can hunt."

"Horseback riding is rather fun," He agreed.

She smiled. "Did you have a job in your old home?"

"Mm," He hummed. "I was a guard,"

She nodded. "That explains the physique."

He raised an eyebrow at her, "Physique? I don't think I have one that's especially extraordinary. I actually, when the raid happened, was home visiting my family; the King had allowed me to visit my mother, she was unwell."

She nodded. "Oh..." She sighed. "Must have been nice to see her, my mum died when I was five."

"I mean.. I suppose. She told me she was doing better but it didn't matter in the end, they all got killed so perhaps it would of been nicer for her had she been feeling terrible before it." Cedric shrugged lightly, wrinkling his nose at what she had said. "I'm sorry, what happened to her?"

"She was killed in a raid." She told him. "She was a shieldmaiden like Thora."

"Raids are horrible things," He whispered, "It's naivety but one day may we live in a world where there is no need for war and raids and violence."

"What would that place be called?" She asked him.

"Heaven for me, Valhalla for you.. I suppose."

SHe nodded.

"One day perhaps we won't all have to wait until death to experience that kind of peace,"

She shrugged. "No other way for my people to get into Valhalla."

"You wouldn't need Valhalla if the living world was just as peaceful."

"That's true, things can be pretty peaceful here though."

"Mm.. Do you know why your sister Thora had such an issue with Ragnar sleeping with that brunette shieldmaiden?"

She shrugged. "Thora kinda has a problem with everyone, but shieldmaiden's take a vow of chastity until marriage."

"Well, the brunette doesn't seem to be adhereing to that does she?"