Life was simple, easy, safe despite the nagging of others demanding to know what Y/n wanted to do with her life she had little to complain about.
Still she wished the sea would take her, she didn't want to worry about where her life was headed, she...
Inside the fortress we soon caught up to Uhtred looking out from the stairwell that led down into the water spring. Men ran around fortress most still gearing up for battle, others shouting commands.
"When we attack, Steapa..." Uhtred begins to instruct.
"I know, lord, to the gate." Steapa, aware of his role, interrupts, both men's eyes watching the ground before them waiting to attack.
When the men running around dispersed to their respective position I knew as well as anyone else that the time was upon us. Letting out a shaky breath I readied myself.
When Uhtred goes for his sword we all follow in tow, weapons at the ready as we approach from behind, our infiltration successful now to win the battle. Attention now drawing to us instead of the gate as we begin the assault from the inside.
"Behind you, behind you!" A man yelled as Uhtred came up behind another stabbing him through the back.
"Hild! Hild!" Father Beocca yelled as the battle inside the fort began and the nun fell behind in our attempts to reach the gates and remove the pillars holding it closed.
A man came for me but was quickly intercepted by Finan who made quick work of killing him.
Agile: Adjective meaning to move quickly and easily. Finan did just that dancing around his opponent in graceful movements as he cut them down.
I found myself captivated by him especially when he turned back to me nodding and rushing off to deal with another opponent.
I gulped as I suddenly realised what the stirring feelings felt. Sure I'd known him a year, during the most hard year of my life as well.
But I certainly couldn't be falling for him... it just... it's too soon to feel this way for anyone... besides I can't afford love not when I could be ripped away from this world as soon as I complete whatever task it is I was sent here to do.
"Lord! Breach!" A bowman yells from the walkway above the gates after one of our own archers shot down one of theirs.
"Steapa! To the gate!" Uhtred yelled.
I had yet to wet my sword running with the group and dodging attacks as I furthered into the fortress. I figured I did not need to wet my blade if I simply dodged their blades and kept running allowing someone else to handle them.
But when Steapa was brought to his knees before the gates, Dane with his axe pulled back ready to strike something within me moved. With feet as light as a hobbits, heart pounding loudly like thunder, I came up behind the Dane, my sword with the dark purple hilt in my hands.
Before I could realise what I was doing my arms moved with frail accuracy as I pierced the man's heart from behind, my movements slow, gentle and steady. In and then slowly out, his body collapsing at my feet as I stared wide eyed in horror of the blood drenching my sword.
My eyes catching with Steapa who looked at me in shock, a nod of gratitude and he was off to unbar the gate. Meanwhile a war cry to my left had me spinning, barely dodging a blade as I swiftly swung my hand with my own blade striking down my assailant.
There was something in the way I moved and my blade moved that contrasted the movements of those around me. I didn't charge with rage, I didn't strike with violence, I didn't swing with anger and hate.
Instead my blade moved swiftly, slowly cutting down my enemies as if they were made of glass and all it would take was the tip of my blade touching them to cause them to crumble.
I danced around my enemies, slicing them down like I was cutting the finest of silks and did not want the cuts to fray. By the time Ragnar and his man barged through the door and created a shield wall my blade laid soak in crimson.
The Six bodies below my feet, lifeless.
I did not blink, I did not look back, instead I joined beside Sihtric and Finan, a stone cold look upon my face as we watched the square be made and Ragnar entered determined to avenge his father and bring down the man who burnt his family alive.
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To Be Continued
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