a shadow over the land

Concentrating as he was on finding his way south to where his family had apparently settled, Sk?ll was not as on his guard as he would have normally been, so when he came around the corner and there was suddenly a WOLF right there, he was a bit unprepared for it, blinking uncomprehendingly at the form for a moment. Oh, he was ready enough for trouble from the wolf, but it took him a long moment to recognize...

"Baldur?" he asked incredulously. An opportunity from the gods, for sure. He smiled beatifically at the older brother he hadn't been expecting to find here, smiling despite Baldur's assumption that he too would have abandoned their family.

"Not at all, brother mine. I'm just rebuilding the ship completely." He winked at his brother, icy eyes gleaming in good humor. "If you made it here, I'm guessing Thor did too?"

He hadn't been involved in the fiasco between Vili and Baldur that had resulted in Baldur and Thor leaving the pack and frankly he wasn't sure what side he'd have taken if he hadn't been patrolling - Vili was his father's chosen heir and as such his orders should have been inviolable, but Thor was the oldest remaining Hr??vitnisson, a direct blood link that was in Sk?ll's eyes superior to a mere brother, and if he and Baldur, another blood descendant, had both been at odds with Vili... well, that was something to consider. Besides, he'd hadn't yet reached his full growth, later putting on a couple inches and quite a few pounds of muscle. The scrawny adolescent he'd been at the time wouldn't have done well against Thor and Baldur or Vili and Ve.

"A lot of our other siblings left since you two did, too. Any of them make it? Akemi? Freyja? Weth?" He cocked his head to the side, curious to know which of their blood had survived.



"Speech"

My declaration embedded deep under my skin

A permanent reminder of how it began

No hesitation when I am commanded to strike

You need to know that you're in for the fight of your life