Sin hadn't realised Athelstan's meant his scars but let's him touch and see without complain. Three even cuts, each deeper that the last, scars almost silver in the moonlight.
"I knew no-one there, I was just passing through when the storm hit and closer the roads for the winter."
"The Icelanders are a gentle, pragmatic people. They readily accept eccentricities but are not always quick to engage with those outside their idea of normal. They keep themselves to themselves, preferring a stability communities like that must need to survive."
"Olaf was... an exception to that rule, not that you would have known it from the outside."
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Date: 2015-07-20 12:33 am (UTC)"I knew no-one there, I was just passing through when the storm hit and closer the roads for the winter."
"The Icelanders are a gentle, pragmatic people. They readily accept eccentricities but are not always quick to engage with those outside their idea of normal. They keep themselves to themselves, preferring a stability communities like that must need to survive."
"Olaf was... an exception to that rule, not that you would have known it from the outside."