He killed them all. Every last one. But Olga had been stabbed in the fight. She lay bleeding into the black sand.
"Boy," Heimir said, sniffing the air. "You smell of revenge. Good. That stench keeps you alive."
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"What will you do?" she asked.
Olga did not die. A healer from a nearby farm found her at dawn, still breathing, still clinging to life. She lived to be an old woman. She never remarried. She told stories to children about a wolf-man who came from the sea, who taught her that love and revenge are the same fire—just burned at different temperatures. He killed them all
"Is he dead?" she asked.
But Amleth never forgot. Each night, he carved a rune into his chest with a needle: ᚱ for revenge, ᚺ for hatred, ᚨ for the gods who had abandoned his father. She lay bleeding into the black sand
Fjölnir did not recognize him. Why would he? The boy he had seen running into the night was dead. This man was a brute, a beast, a thing of grunts and labor.
Fjölnir laughed through broken teeth. "You think this ends with me dead? You will become me. You will sit on a farm somewhere, old and hated, and one day a boy with your eyes will come to kill you. That is the curse of men like us."