Bjorn.

It was hard to forget the memory that Ota showed me. The betrayal of the sister that now stood beside me born anew. I stood by her while she tried to kill Ota. Why would he see fit to allow us to live at all? Something about Bodil told me that she was not the same as once was. That a soul that was once callous and uncaring had been humbled. She lived a life that couldn't have been easy on her. Could I trust her? The last thing I knew before Ota brought us to him was walking through the forest with Gallion and Pepper. Then seeing Amaia. Bodil, standing there, no longer a dream, everything was still confusing and strange. I had the memories of Aadi, but I was still Bjorn. A powerless metal working foundling.

Walking up to the door of the cabin, goats bleating as we walked by the railed yard, we were met with a young man as he rounded the corner of the cabin holding a bucket of feed intended for the goats. He seemed happy to have seen us, grinning he said, "You must be Bjorn and Bodil. You do look the same! It's so neat! I have met twins before but you guys are almost exactly the same. Hey!" The boy took off running towards the barn, a younger boy was running away from him after being caught stealing a few long sticks. "That's my weapon, I told you Marc!" Both of the boys were out of sight arguing about sticks when the door opened to the cabin. A woman with long braided white hair decorated with little wooden runes stood looking at us.

"About time. I thought I was going to have to entertain these three on my own." The woman turned, motioning for us to follow. The cabin was full of plants, hanging from and potted. There were wooden benches placed in front of the fire place covered with furs. The fire roaring hot and welcoming. Gallion and Pepper were sitting on one of the benches drinking and talking. Another older man, who I guessed was Sullevan was sitting in the next. When they seen us they stood and came towards us.

"Well, what a strange adventure that is turning out to be, eh boy?" Gallion asked me. I smiled, at least he was in good spirits.

"Gallion, I met Ota. He has told us much. This is Bodil. My sister." I told him. Gallion's smile faded.

"You lived? And Gunnar?" He asked her.

"Dead." She answered him.

"I see. I suppose you know about Ama then as well?" He asked her.

"I told her." I said to Gallion. Bodil nodded only. "Gallion, you knew of Bodil?" I asked him sternly.

He nodded. "More details that didn't seem to make a difference in the end my boy. Again, I am sorry for lying as long as I have." He said bowing his head.

"My name is Kara. I suppose to met my grandsons outside?" The white haired woman asked. Her dress was strange to me. It was a green color with runes painted around the bottom of the dress in black. She wore a belt that was complete with four pouches, and a long thin rope that hung from her neck with more wooden runes on it.

"I see Ota gave you knowledge of who you used to be, but did not grant you all your knowledge you once possessed?" She asked.

I didn't answer, neither did Bodil.

"If you mean, the knowledge of magics, then no. Somethings we will have to learn for ourselves." I repeated Ota.

"Ahh, good for him. No mortal should possess the knowledge of the gods. Its corrupting." She clapped her hands. "What about for fighting skills? Can you at least use a weapon?" She asked.

"I am well trained with weapons." I said.

"I can fight well enough." Bodil said, "I can protect myself."

"When we are done with you, Bodil, you will be able to do more that!" Kara said to her.

"And what of us?" Sullevan stood up and motioned between him and Pepper. "Our people were expecting us. Are we expected to stay here, on Nef? There is evil threatening them. Woman and children are dying every day from attacks. A nidhogg just now in the woods. We must go back." He urged.

"Don't you think that a god would have sent you there if you were needed? You were brought here for a reason. For Bodil." Kara said annoyed by Sullevan's outburst.

"Kara, could I have another cup of that warm drink you have made?" Ask Gallion.

"It's called Tea for gods sake." Kara said as she started towards the firepit where a pot was staying warm over the fire. She dipped a ladle in and poured the contents into Gallion's cup. The aroma smelled lovely, full of herbs and something fruity maybe.

"May I?" Bodil asked motioning towards the tea. "I would like some as well, if I could?" I asked.

Kara nodded and brought tea for both of us. I took a sip and understood why Gallion enjoyed it, it was interesting and warm. I drank it slowly as I took a seat on a bench.

Bodil pulled her axe from under her cloak and leaned it against the wall nearest to the door, and then joined us. The axe looked familiar to me somehow. Maybe Gallion and I fixed it as some point over the years, except Bodil lived far across the land from us.

"I would like to start your training in magic immediately." Kara said. "I have had visions of you both using magic, so we know its at least possible."

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"Vision." Bodil whispered.

Kara nodded, "Another time." She said as she waved off the subject. "We will be supping together tonight! I would think you are hungry. My son will be back soon and my grandchildren will eat until they are pulled away from the table."

Kara started to work on supper, Bodil offered her help and together they were soon roasting fresh beef over the fire on a spit. The smell made my stomach rumble. Gallion and I managed and ate well enough between the two of us, but this smelled better then anything we have ever made.

"Smells good, Kara. Better then anything I have smelled in my life." I said to her.

"Oi!" Gallion said as he tried to shove me off the bench from beside him.

A man came into the door followed by the two boys we had seen earlier chasing each other over sticks. He was tall, as tall as I was. His two children looked just like him. Their brown hair was braided back while the sides were cut short to the skin. The man had a mark across the middle of his face, ear to ear, a line that looked like the thorny stem of a flower. Above his eye was another mark, a rune I did not recognize. And third mark just under the middle of his lower lip. A broadsword.

"Ahh, Cal, here you are. They have arrived." Kara said this to her son reminding me that they knew we were coming. Magic, I thought to myself.

"Well, that means its time to get to work." He said with a determined tone.

"Cal." He said holding out his arm to me, I took his wrist and greeted him. "Bjorn." He released my wrist and turned to Bodil. She introduced her self shaking his wrist. Cal stood back and nodded with a smile.

"You two look like your mother. My cousin." He said to us.

"I thought you were in Cinneadh?" Sullevan asked him as he offered his own wrist in greeting.

"I was." He said. "I am still unsure how I have gotten back here without a seer to bring me."

"Never under estimate the gods, my son." Kara said.

"Mmm, they could have at least sent me back with my provisions. I can only hope that Toke will bring them back with him in the following days." He complained.

"Are you two aware what is being asked of you? Why you have been brought here?" Cal asked Bodil and I.

"Not entirely. We know that we are needed to help the awakened and Dryadalis defeat an old evil. We know who we used to be. We are not them now. We are mortals as you are." I felt that was important to explain. "Ota has explained its our power that we need to defeat it. Interitus. I will admit however, I do not know how to use it, or what it does." I looked at Bodil hoping she would have an answer for it.

Bodil shook her head, "That is the same for me. I know its name. I know its powerful." She paused, "I know it will come to us when we need it." She said the last part looking at me.

"I feel the same. It's not something that can just be done." I said agreeing with Bodil.

"Well, let's not worry about that for now then. You have much to learn, its going to take time that is sparse as it is. We will trust in Ota and prepare for what we can." Cal said as he reached for a cup and filled it with mead from a barrel.

"Our villages are being attacked by everything from Banshee's to Ravagers. Creatures that have not been seen in over a hundred years. More probably. At first we thought it was something else, we thought a Draugr had come. Then we realized these creatures were following something more powerful than that. An evil that not even the gods could control on their own. Before our time, they were thought to have been destroyed. Except they were not. This one has been hiding, hidden from the gods themselves. And now, it seems up to us to get rid of it." Cal took a deep breath. "A lot of people are dying, which feeds the evil. Feeds Ødeleggeren. And when he is ready, he will kill us all."

"Ødeleggeren? I know this name." Bodil said.

"I also feel like I know this name." I said.

"He is from the realm of Nef. His kind were defeated by the gods long ago. You would of known them as the Udøde." Kara said. As the word left her mouth terror washed over me. The name was as familiar to me today as it would of been in my godly life. The reason that Amaia and my self were created by Ota and Terra. To protect the realms from the Udøde. Only the power of Interitus could destroy them. Only Bodil and I could defeat this Ødeleggeren. If he was an Udøde many more people will be dead soon.

"Has any other Udøde been seen? Or just one? " Bodil asked.

"No, and no one has actually seen Ødeleggeren." Kara informed us. " There are four seerers in this village, and all four of us have had the same visions for two full seasons. If other seerers have had them, I am unsure. A vision of a giant with eyes that glow red and skin grey and scaley like the dead. He is surrounded by dark and followed by an army of chaos. The name Ødeleggeren is repeated over and over as though the gods are warning us. He destroys the island of Nef, the island is swallowed by the sea... and then then everything else after that. On the edge of the world you two stand fighting Ødeleggeren. A power never seen before, if you succeed or not was never revealed. The vision ends with you, Bodil." Kara looked almost curious as she studied Bodil's face.

Bodil looked concerned as she spoke, "The dreams." She said as she looked at me. I understood what she meant and nodded. Bodil stood up and took Kara's hands. "I will do what I can to help you stop Ødeleggeren. We will." She finished looking at me.

"Of course." I said to her. I wasn't sure we actually had a choice to help or not. It seems like everything depended on us. How Bodil and I were going to learn to use magics and interitus before it was to late was a concern of mine. I felt like something was missing. Something was needed in order for us to connect.