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from my saddle. Using the string for momentum I quickly rubbed a stick into a log and waited for smoke before blowing on it and finally the fire caught. I smilled softly to myself before grabbing the two rabbits from yesterday I skinned them quickly before anyone woke up and placed them on a make shift spit above the fire. Eventually they woke to the smell of cooked rabbit, the stranger looked at me curiously as I tried to wake Alice up. 

 

When she didn't immediatly open her eyes at the sound of her name I beagn to shake her, what if she died because of the cold! I should have woke up sooner! This is all my fault! 

 

'Do you always think such morbid thoughts?' The stranger asked, I looked at him shocked to see he was right behind me offering a water skin. I took it hesently before taking a drink, 'only when sourounded by savages.' I muttered to myself, he laughed echoed all around it was a deep belly laugh that brought a half smile to my face. 'Are you not the Barbarian Princess?' He asked with a short chuckle. I sighed and didn't reply and returned my gaze to the still sleeping Alice. 'We gave her something to help her sleep last night she wouldn't stop fussing on you.' He muttered looking amused. I rolled my eyes, 'sounds like her.' I turned back to the cooked food I asked him to cut it up for me and his responce was to raise his eyebrow again, and tapped my skirt as he walked passed. So he knew I had the knife, why didn't he take it off me I wondered. He handed me some of the delicious rabbit with an apple, some bread and cheese. Where did they get this from? Pillage? The spoils of battle? 

 

'Are you Vikings?' I asked seriously, curious now. He laughed took a deep breath before glancing at me agian. 'You read too much, but little one do you think we'd be here in england of all places?' he asked just as curious as I was. 'We are in the land of plentaful, west is poor. Why wouldn't you come here?' I informed him tilting my head curiosuly. 

 

'That is true but no, we are just people saxons or savages as your men like to call us.' He told me grinning at my lack of information. 'I wonder what it is like to travel across the sea discovering new places with nothing tethering me to the land..' I trailed off sadly. 'Why didn't you?' He asked his expression turning serious too. 'Because I am a woman and we have our duties, we do not feed our familes or fight in wars. We bare heirs and do as we are told.' He snorted at me before poking at my fire. 

 

'You say that as if you are reciting from a passage, you do not truly believe that.' It was more of an point than a question. 'No you are right, I do not. If it wasn't for my sister I would go do these things but I will not allow her to be married away to some lord, she is the sweetist of children I will not allow that destniny to befall her.' I shrugged, pulling myself into a little ball on the cold ground. It was freezing this morning, 'So why is it that you are traveling?' He looked at me in a different light now, 'I will take my sisters fait onto my self and allow my sister the freedom of a second child. She will marry for love not riches or protection...' I trailed off sadly, what would come of me now? 

 

'Why is it that you are being married off?' Yet again he looked at me curiosly stroking his wild beard before taking a bite of some bread and rabbit. Sighing I continued my story, 'my family are being attacked by savages, by men attached to no others. Vikings maybe I know not. I was not told much of why I must be sold only that I was old enough to be sold away. I have had soutors before but refused them, when my parents told me they would have to send my sister away I quickly agreed.' I told him mournfully, I didn't know why I had told him anything he had killed Caspians men... I was telling this man my deepest secret and I didn't even know his name. 

 

'You agreed with no argument?' He asked in disbelief. 'I suppose, my sister is innocent where I am not...' I trailed off. 'So you laid with a man?' I snorted in an unlady like manner, 'of course not, I am still a princess. I mean that I killed a man and was about to kill anouther before you stopped me. My sister would never fire an arrow or take up arms. She is a regal woman... Wherest I am not. She would be fit to rule, if she found a sutible man to marry who was capible of loving her and ruling I would leave. I do not want to lead a kingdom.' I told him boldly, his deep blue eyes bore into my own with such power and authority I knew i could never best him. 'What will you do with us?' I asked not really caring for my own safety but that of my sisters and Alices. 

 

He shrugged his massive shoulders, 'I have sent you man, Jesse? To your bethotheds camp.' He trailed off grinning. I rolled my eyes 'so we are spoils of war?' I sighed again and looked down at the sleeping form of Alice. 'No Princess you are not spoils of anything, you are a woman who wishes to be free. We can offer you that. We could even offer you hand maden here a place to live, she will not be looked down upon for giving bith to a child out of wedlock. She or he will grow up loved, with no tittle but that matters little here. We are the freemen.' He looked at his men proudly, 'you cannot be free if you rely on someone else for food.' I rolled my eyes yet again from one dictator to anouther. 'How?' He sounded enraged, furiously so. 

 

'Your bread, your clothes, your money are all taken from someone else.' I stared at him angrily with my own eyes. 'You will see princess. You will see.' I looked down at the floor as it began to rain, this was going to be another hard day of riding with little rest. My body still hurt from yesterdays bindings and riding, that and all the walking I had been doing before hand I sighed as I watched some of the strangers men pick up Alice and place her in a cart. I climbed on to Ghost who was now thethered to the Saxons horse...

 

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