***This chapter will need to be read a little slowly, since what happened in the past is presented from two POVs. One is by the man who it happened to, and the other is what Louhi learns. If it all gets to be a little too much, her explanation to him near the end ought to clear it up. I uh, ... hope. I always learn a hell of a lot when I write anything wi...
Author's Note: Well, here it is, the first chapter of my post apocalyptic story! It took some doing to hammer out the details, but here it is, finished and with more chapters waiting to be written! I do hope that everyone who wanted this story enjoys this opening chapter, as I put a lot of love into this story! Now, shall we begin? *************************...
***I'm moving the spotlight away from Louhi for a little while. This will tie in later, but for now, we're looking at the border country which separates England from Scotland. The year is not 1000AD yet but I needed a clan who could have been active there near the border and had a feud running with their opposite numbers on the other side. I picked a name,...
*** A little of what's happening in both places now, at sea and on land. Something to note here; The creatures back at the keep are not human and they have a rather involved societal structure. I'm aware that there are readers who might not especially like the way that these things all have a varying degree of capability to go in both directions which depe...
***By the Tenth Century, the peoples of Northern Scotland, the Faeroes, Orkneys and Shetland Islands all found their ways of speaking being supplanted by a language that is today known as Old Norse. The more southerly groups regionalized this even more with what is now known as Norn, a rather insular variant which is now extinct other than as a flavoring in...