What Will You Teach Me?
05-02-2014, 04:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-02-2014, 04:12 PM by Katja the First.)
A dark-coated wolf sprawled atop a large boulder in a field of boulders, ticked coat absorbing the sun as she slept seemingly insensible to the world. But at the sound of tiny voices below her, a sliver of silver appeared in either eye as they cracked open. Smoothly and silently she gathered herself into a crouch, ears flicking toward the sound and nose twitching as she tried to catch the scent. A fox kit, and a young wolf pup. One of Raisa's no doubt, since the Olympians had left for their own land. She had yet to formally meet the pups despite having attended their birth - she had in fact been avoiding them. Newly born puppies were tiny and looked breakable, and while Katja had excellent muscle control from long years of practice at more martial uses for it, she was far from comfortable around babies. From the sounds of it, though, the children were grown up enough to leave the den, and apparently deemed sturdy enough to wander on their own. She listened as Raisa's girl spoke with the fox about the rocks, then about snakes, and Katja decided it was time to make herself known. "It is said," she spoke as she rose smoothly from the rock to drop down mere paces from the young pair, silver eyes studying them intently, "that the snake J?rmungandr, the midgard serpent, will poison the mighty Thor in the final battle Ragnarok, that J?rmungandr will be slain, and taking nine paces then shall Thor perish." She spoke slowly and methodically, taking great care to make her English come through correctly, her even tone showing little of the passion she held for the subject. The pup was obviously Raisa's, appearing very little different from her mother, though the fox kit was an odd choice of companion for a pup with siblings. She cocked her head to the side consideringly. "Perhaps these boulders are the bones of hill giants, left here by their enemies when slain in battle." There was nothing in her face to say that she was trying to frighten them, and indeed she wasn't, but Katja was a viking, and saw no reason for these to be considered unsuitable stories for children. "Speech." |
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