Before I fell asleep I went looking for Cora so she could tell me whatever it was she wanted to tell me. I found her melting some ice and pouring water over her dirty body a little bit outside of the camp we were all sharing.

At first I’d thought she was just a big woman, but she was a very well proportionate big woman. The armor she usually wore hid a slim waist that made way to pronounced hips and legs that could probably kick the shit out of you.

“Are you done staring?” she asked me.

I shook my head. “Just a little longer, please”

I leaned on my staff and continued to stare. Her midsection was toned and her tits were just like Sigyn’s in her blonde form, for a second I even thought she might even be the goddess.

“Done, yet?” she asked with a smirk enjoying my attention. I looked up from admiring her legs and nodded. “Now, I am.” I gave her a small smile as a thank you.

“What only a smile? Aren’t you going to wash yourself too? You do realize you stink, right?”

Ah well no good deed goes unpunished.

I took off my robe and got closer to her, the fire barely reached this area of the camp so I couldn’t really enjoy her figure, like I’ve said before my eyesight is not what it used to be. I don’t know if she was smiling, scowling or enjoying my figure but I knew I wasn’t bad off. Working every morning on a farm kept your muscles wiry and carrying loads of olives to my house always kept me fit.

I knew I was fitter at seventeen when I had arrived at Fincas Nosu, but eating olives and pigs almost every day had its perks and its downside.

My dinners were always tasty, but I had to work harder to keep my body in shape.

“It’s really disconcerting seeing a man with no hair.” The blonde naked woman told me as I poured melted ice on my body.

“I know… I hadn’t called upon fire in a long time, I was actually liking having long hair.”

“You don’t look that bad” she said cocking her head to the side.

Not being one to lose an opportunity to flatter I replied in kind “You don’t look half bad yourself either.”

She gave me a rude gesture with her hand, as was her way, and I gave her a small smile as a reward.

“So what did you want to tell me about Samuela?” I asked her as she put her clothes back on to fight the cold of the night.

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“Our dear Samuela there…” she pointed towards the sleeping woman “…is the reason why we came looking for you. She has a god speaking to her every day and even though he rarely appears he is always following her. The rest of the party has seen him a few times but he seldom pays us a visible visit. Samuela says he’s always floating around us but we usually never see him.”

Since the gods had descended upon us crazy stuff had been happening so I didn’t doubt there was a god walking around me now probably eaves dropping at my conversation with Cora.

“Do you know the god’s name?” I asked trying to find the god, wherever he was around us.

“Samuela, says his name is Hermes.” I shouted some obscenities towards the invisible god to see if he would do something but nothing happened.

“And what does he tell her?”

“You should ask her, I really don’t pay attention to that, I am here to fight and help the party with other issues.” I nodded but the reason I’d come to her side was to find out why Samuela was afraid of fire.

“So why is Samuela afraid of me?”

“When the gods appeared a woman by the name of Agneya descended upon her village and burned it down. Much like Loki appearing in your village, gods appeared in other towns and destroyed them. Other gods came looking for people with specific skills and Samuela was one of them. She stopped talking soon after. From what I’ve heard from Alfar, who is the closest to her, there is another god named Agni trying to stop Hermes from achieving his goals through Samuela. Having you alive and with us is a great coup to bring back the Mount of Olives.”

Again, I had no idea what this people were talking about but I would go along with the group as long as they didn’t head east.

My family made their home towards the sun, meaning the East, and for ten years I had avoided them. If they so much as smelled me in their vicinity the ass kicking would be monumental. The group was pretty hell bent on going north and from what I’d heard from the adventurers coming through my fields the month before, there were opportunities to be found farther in the mountains.

I wasn’t sure the environment would be the most ideal for my olives, but pigs could live almost anywhere.

“This is very helpful information.” I lied.

I don’t think she believed me, as she left for her sleeping area next to the fire she told me “Next time you have a naked woman in front of you, you should try to do something about it.”

“Weren’t we here to have a serious conversation?” I shot back.

“With the way you look you should take every opportunity you get.”

I put both of my hands on my bald head and let her know how I would screw the leaving life out her next time I saw her naked. She flipped me the finger and flashed her tits as she left. I really liked blondes.

I passed again by the men playing cards and I could see things hadn’t changed since I’d last left them playing.

“Aren’t you tired of cheating them Drógar?”

The rouge gave me a wink “You just don’t understand how to play the game Kami, care to take a sit and learn?”

I saw the concentrated looks on the other participants and was sure I didn’t want to participate in anything they were doing.

“You should play the Kodo and Hero Power” I told Alfar.

He flipped me the finger. Drógar frowned at me.

“Did you and Cora learn in the same sign language school?” I asked Alfar.

The leader of the group ignored me but Fulmar and Usok gave me the finger.

I turned towards Drógar “Are you feeling left out?”

He gave me the finger too.

That was more like it.