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Cyra

A beast in human skin.

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a character in “Chronicles of Domhanda”, originally authored by Layla, as played by RolePlayGateway

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CYRA.
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N a m e s a k e:
Odin's Wolf | The Decapitator | Cyra the Wolfspirit
A l i a s:
Cyra.
N u m e r i c a l:
Age: Unknown. Birth: Unknown.
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S o c i o l o g i c a l :
Profession: Serves no one. Martial Status: Single. Homeland: Fearaan. Allegiance: Thorvaald and the arctic wolves. Status: Nomad
B i o l o g i c a l :
Height: 6 feet Weight: 172lbs Ethnicity: Assumed Feraani
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P s y c h o l o g i c a l:
Raised in the perpetual Winter of the Land of Moving Ice and grown alongside arctic wolves, no less, Cyra is more feral than even the barbaric warriors of her tribe. She is distrusting of humans and prefers the company of animals and the freedom of isolation in a frozen land that so many people consider desolate. She is crude and speaks at the most inappropriate times, having no knowledge of appropriate social conduct. Her lack of manners is largely ignored amongst the Wolf Tribe who have grown accustomed to her often bizarre tendencies.

Despite her violent nature, she is wholly loyal to her chief, Thorvaald, as a faithful dog might be. She seems almost possessive and overprotective, disliking any contact with him from other members of his tribe, thwarting any attempts at conversation from strangers and treating with hostility, at best, any who mean him harm or disrespect.

P r o f i l e :
Towering at an imposing height of six feet with wild blonde hair messily pulled from her face, Cyra is frightening to behold. Her gaze is fierce, her features nearly feline and her endless expanse of legs nearly always tensed for battle. She wears the skins and furs typical of her tribe, although she refuses to wear the fur of the wolves. She holds a round and sturdy shield in her left arm and the other wields a heavy axe.
K i n d r e d:
Her home belongs in the dangerous glaciers of Fernaan and her family the arctic wolves who roam there. Perhaps due to the distinctly animal way she moves and her having adapted to being little more than a wolf, but they seem to treat her as if she is one of them. Her closest companion is a blue-eyed and snow furred beast she fondly calls, "Din Din," even though the great wolf is in no way timid or adorable, at least, to outsiders. He is wherever she is but he is not a pet but an equal companion.

Although she spends much time with the Wolf Tribe - although more because Thorvaald spends so much time with them than because she enjoys their company - she does not subscribe to their ways. Her tribe is her pack of wolves and Thorvaald is the only human she is fond of.

F e a t s:
Cyra wields a heavy axe in her right hand and an impressive shield with her left. She is a mistress of the shield and axe and few can disarm or defeat her in an armed battle. Having "played wrestle" with her wolf pack much of her life, she is strong and skilled in taking people to the ground and keeping them there. What she lacks in skill and precision, she makes up for with pure, uninhibited power and force. Having run with wolves, she is very quick and adept at hiding.

She is well versed in the ways of animals and never has she been harmed by one in her memory. Wolves appear to take a special liking to her and she them. Her communicational skills with humans pale drastically in comparison.

A r s e n a l:
Her armour is the skins and furs she wears and the only other things she carries on her person is a shield and an axe. Her companion in all aspects of life is a great arctic wolf whom she affectionately calls Din Din.
A r c h i v e:
Her earliest memory consists of running with her pack, her human legs, so young and weak compared to the strong leap of the other cubs, trembling with exhaustion. She stumbled until, eventually, she crumpled to the white ground. Her dearest friend, a stunning arctic wolf, circled around to nudge the nameless girl with his nose. She lay curled in a fetal position for a while before she was rolled onto her back. She struggled to her feet and the mighty beast lowered his head, urging her to climb on. They ran long and far.

Her pack had to stay ahead of the hunting parties and they did, for the most part, being superior runners and killers to their other brothers and sisters who fell prey to the armed men. But one day, the first arrow struck.

Her uncle, a large beast who was strong but not as fast as the rest of the pack, fell, his crimson blood seeping into the white snow. Her pack growled at the hunters but some fled. They leapt at throats but they were outnumbered, eventually, most ran when more of their numbers fell. A frightened girl chased them, struggling to keep up with her two legs to their four. As she fell back, her lungs burning in agony, she saw the receding figures of her family. She fell as she'd done so many times before, but this time her pack did not slow down. She was sure she would be killed by the armed creatures.

Then, she felt the familiar softness of her close companion as he curled around her, growling at their enemies. The humans shouted, yelling words she did not understand then but now knew to mean, "Get the beast! Don't harm the girl! Get away, monster! Is he protecting her?" She'd clutched her friend's thick neck and bared her teeth at the hunters. She does not remember well now, but slowly, then all at once, she found herself clothed in strange things, coddled by these enemies that killed so many of her family. They did not let her escape, no matter how many times she tried. They taught her to speak, to fight and to be human, but she would never be. They were not her family.

Thorvaald saved her brave companion, whom she grew to call Din Din, short for the Norse God Odin whom they told her many great stories of. Because of Thorvaald, he was not killed and even allowed to stay by her side, and for that, she was greatful.


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So begins...

Cyra's Story

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CYRA.
1409, Third of June | Morning.

Slithers of crimson light slipped through the gaps between the planks of worn wood, talons trembling and charged to consume. This was not the light of a rising sun, but that of a raging, desecrating fire. The wolf girl flinched back from the ship's walls, tucking herself between two looming stacks of boxes. She clutched her shield to her chest as if its steel body could stop the fury of heat with sheer willpower. Years she had spent with the humans and still the stench of ash and smoke repulsed her, the inferno no axe could sever frightening her. She darted her head around to peek through the rifts when she heard the trickle of roars and laughter.

Cyra forced herself to loosen her white-knuckled grip on her shield and axe. The two-legged fools were at it again with their "contained fires," because "don't worry, little wolf, we've done this a million times before." Yes, and her wolves had escaped captivity and death a million times before, but sometimes they were captured and sometimes they did not come back. As if sniffing her thoughts from the stale air, Odin nudged his furry white head against his companion's thigh. She sighed and cursed at having sighed, there was another wretched habit the Wolf Tribe had abandoned her with. Cyra shoved her heavy axe into the sheath at her hip and wrapped her wiry muscled arms around her large friend. She felt Din Din's low rumble against her chest and nuzzled her nose into his neck. "Indeed, wolves are better than people," she said. "People will curse you, cheat you and beat you, but not you, Din Din. Not you."

The wood whined beneath her feet as Cyra stood to move to the heavy wooden doors of the storage room. She flinched inwardly at the disruptive noise but continued her tentative tread to the entrance. She was surrounded by boxes containing enough food and supplies - most of which were of the weapon variety - to clear a tribe. Perhaps that was what they were doing, but why travel by sea to do so? Cyra had snuck in unnoticed moments before the ship set sail. Getting herself here had not been hard, but disguising a hundred and seventy pound wolf as a bag of food had been much harder. Still, here she was, unnoticed and on the same boat as Thorvaald.

If he'd truly believed she'd allow him to leave her for an undetermined length of time to some remote land far away and that she would neglect the chance to, finally, see a world that was not simply white, he was more deluded than she'd originally suspected and most likely required his elders' medicine to be well. She was also immensely curious to see if all people truly were as haggard and ugly as those on this ship.

Cyra grunted with strain as she tried and failed to open the doors. They seemed to have been locked from the outside in, which would make sense, she supposed, since they would not expect their goods to grow legs and seek escape. She gripped her axe and spun it around, bringing the butt end of her weapon onto the lock with the stretch to decapitate a man. Let them hear. It was not as if Thorvaald would toss her overboard now or turn around. At least, not the latter. She was here now, and there was nothing anyone could do about it if they did not want to have to search for their sunken limbs at the bottom of the ocean.

Thump. Thump. Thump. THUMP.

SNAP!


Her lips parted in a wide grin as the door swung gently open. She slipped between the wide gap and rushed out of the sheltered room, breathing in the fragrance of freedom, even if it was tarnished by the wretched musk of burning wood. Din Din prowled close behind, stretching out his large body and flexing his thick paws in contentment. "Aye, I know," Cyra whispered. "That room was horrid."


NADIA.
1409, Third of June | Morning.

Light bled through sheets of colour as the butterfly perched on a stunning blue clematis, its wings outstretched in prayer for the sun. Its bones, frail like veins bleeding from its soft body to give it flight, fractured the soft golden light of early morning and gave it the conflicting appearance of being both fragile and enduring. Surely such bones were sturdy to be capable of holding the weight of its body. Nadia was thoroughly mesmerised by the creature and its wings of stained glass, so much so that she smacked her hip on the window ledge when she spun around to face the source of the sound.

"Not to interrupt your thoughts milady..." She stared, stunned like a deer caught in the direct light of a torch, her fingers grasping the hard ledge behind her for dear life. "But I appear to have lost my way. I was seeking Queen Suhayla's quarters and.. Well, these do not appear to be them. Might I ask where I am?"

Nadia! She heard the scolding voice of her mother when she'd been well and quickly dropped into a low bow, stammering apologies, excuses and thoughts as if she'd swallowed a Witch's brew that made her speak uncontrollably. So often had others condemned her for her unfiltered speech, but no bars or beatings were capable of imprisoning her words.

"I am deeply sorry for neglecting my duties, sir. My sincerest apologies for being an inconvenience and a nuisance, sir. I understand that I shall be punished, sir. I will atone for my sins, sir. Please consider giving your pitiful servant another chance, sir. I will do better, sir. Forgive me for your confusion, sir. You will never lose your way again, sir. What am I saying, sir. Sorry, sir. Lord. Master. I will cease speaking now." Nadia inhaled deeply for the first time since she'd been made aware of the man's presence. The words had poured from her tongue and were now trapped behind her tightly sealed lips. The servant girl bowed lower, surprising any who might've believed she could not, in fact, lower herself any more than she had initially.

Avoiding the unfamiliar man's gaze, she straightened her stiff body and marched, stone-faced and tight-lipped, to the linens at the corner of the bed. She stripped Duke Anerin's sheets with the precision and speed of one well accustomed to the duties of a maidservant. Being a servants' servant, she often found herself with the most undesirable duties, which included linen changes because no one wished to wrestle a bed seemingly able to fit half a dozen men. Nadia froze almost comically in the middle of peeling the navy bottom covers from the bed, her lips parted in surprise, eyes stationary and impossibly large with realisation.

"Oh!" she gasped, allowing her duties to fall from her hands so she could spin around and bow frantically once again, this time bobbing up and down. "I am deeply, truly, utterly, wholly, entirely, absolutely..." She continued rambling words synonymous to 'really,' before continuing, "Sorry."

Nadia inched her upper body upwards, lifting her soft brown eyes reluctantly to something other than the stranger's feet. Only instead of looking mildly shy or apologetic, she was gawking relentlessly. Nadia watched a storm fracture the earth and the crack be filled by a roaring tide that devoured the golden sand. She saw as the river stilled, the blue skies turn dark and be scattered by beads of light. Sapphires peered at her through strands of dark hair that curled softly over a hard jaw. Oh. jaws. She had those. Nadia shut her mouth and shuffled from one foot to another, her fingers tugging and twirling the material of her skirts. She suddenly felt horribly underdressed and ridiculous. Her dress was a plain thing, long sleeves pushed up at the elbow, the neckline an uninteresting square and the material, a hideous olive, patched in places with cloths of all assortments. She was an underfed, frail thing with dreary auburn hair and a fringe that had been braided away from her face to reveal an extraordinarily fair face, and here she stood, shuffling, in front of possibly the most handsome man she'd seen in her life.

Wonderful.

"I, umm..." she muttered. "Do not believe I have the authority to tell you but... You should turn when you see this pot and then you follow this wall till you reach a certain door. They should be in one of the rooms with the windows." Nadia shrugged and gave a tentative smile that revealed dimples in her cheeks. "I am not too good at giving directions. Perhaps I could show you instead. After I change these linens, if you are not in any haste." She turned to fuss over the sheets, wrestling the burgundy silk from one corner of the bed to another to no avail. "Queen Suhayla... Queen, Queen... Feast... Carrots..." Nadia pondered to herself. Her eyes wandered to the corner of the ceiling as she pulled her full lower lip into her mouth by her teeth, sucking and thinking whilst balancing on the edge of the bed. "Oh! The Queen! The guests. You must be the prince." Nadia nodded, accepting her intelligent guess to be the truth. "The prince. The prince!" Nadia slipped from the bed with a yelp and fell hard onto the floor. "My sincerest apologies for my incompetence, my lord!"

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AZZURRA.
1409, Third of June | Midday.

She'd seen the flames grasp the blue skies with their incandescent fingers, tugging the thick clouds like a sticky delight into their mouths. The Captain of the Guard would not stand by whilst something so unknown loomed in the near distance. She could protect her Queen from any weapon known to man, she could inhale the stench of poison from a room away, she could even singlehandedly disarm a small army, but she could not halt a raging inferno. Her Spearmaidens were the most revered warriors of their kingdom and she knew she could mostly intrust them with the life of their shared liege. Meanwhile it was vital to know thy enemy - and hopeful ally - and wise to familiarise oneself with the castle halls and the city and people it commanded.

Light danced across slick tuffs of obsidian hair, illuminating a magnificent black stallion with a gaze that was both wise and as mysterious as the infinite depths of midnight. He exhaled a gust of visible air as Azzurra approached, bowing his head as she came near to gently nudge his rider. He'd only just earned rest after an extensive and hard journey to Baile, yet he remained strong and unfaltering. Azzurra ran a slim hand over the smooth dark of his mane before tucking a thick, long carrot between his lips. He crunched contently and listened to the gentle breaths of his old companion. Azzurra had had Eclipse since he was a foal and she a wee thing all others looked down upon, except for Echan who was responsible for all Azzurra knew of horses and likely much of her skill in horse riding.

He'd been a simple servant with a deep love for horses who accompanied the Kirhareshi knights - the men - in their travels to care for their beasts. They met not two years after her arrival in the castle when she she was being repeatedly thrown off of the small horses she was adamantly pursuing the obedience of. He'd laughed, something utterly rare from one who was not Arunah's Chosen and completely unheard of from a male, at that. He'd even approached her with a witty remark that might've gotten him reprimanded or even removed from his position in the castle. Yet he'd seemed at ease, even nonchalant, and to say she was surprised someone, let alone a boy would speak to her would be saying sugar was faintly sweet. He'd been a young man of seventeen then and perhaps had not seen the harm in speaking to one who was barely seven years of age but surely he must've known who she was. Perhaps he did not care.

They grew to be friends and that friendship had peeled its petals to reveal something other. Yet here she was now, alone with the horse he loved alongside her, without him by her side. She buried deep such useless and distracting thoughts, focusing instead on mounting her horse. She did it with ease and independence despite her unimpressive height. She tapped Eclipse into motion and rode through the castle gates, cloaked in darkness and riding a shadow.

A while later, she approached the shores of Glasliugh but she'd long seen the imposing great ships a distance away. She took alternate routes that kept her hidden and treaded quietly as she neared the source of the fire. It was not a raid as she'd partially suspected, rather it was something much more horrifying. Armies of Fearnaan barbarians disembarked the grand ships, wielding axes, shields, hammers and the like and carrying heavy containers in their thick arms. They wore coats of skin and fur and some, even, had skulls attached to their belts or worn around their necks like feral necklaces. They looked to be armed for a war that would destroy at the very least, two thirds of the world. Fearnaans in battle were worrisome, Fearnaans preparing for battle instigated dread beyond measure. From what she'd seen of Fearnaans from her brief encounters with them - usually ending with gore as the only Fearnaans she concerned herself with were the ones who wanted her Queen dead - they were an unpredictable people, fickle to the words of others and even their own decisions. She was not certain they had codes of honour, that they even valued any sort of life like she did Queen Suhayla's or if everyone was simply worth keeping heads attached to shoulders for as long as they were useful. Even if they'd spoken their vows to fight alongside Grand Duke Anerin and Queen Suhayla, they could very well retract their statement or their people could choose to ignore the decisions of their chief. Azzurra did not trust them in the least.

She'd settled Eclipse in distance away in the shed of an inn and continued the rest of the way on foot. She was the silent and invisible glide of nonexistence as she tucked herself behind the arch of a rooftop. She pressed her body against the rough, fraying surface, hiding behind a great chimney that peeked from the modest house. From this vantage point, she was almost perfectly hidden but given access to the hustle below. The shimmering ocean and blue skies resembled Azzurra's pale crystal eyes as they peered through the slither of a gap between the grey material she'd hidden herself under and the similarly dreary roof. Arunah must've shone her good luck upon Azzurra today because the owner of the house she was currently resting on must've been drying wide sheets of linen or whatever in Kirharesh this was, on the roof, when he'd forgotten all about it. It made for superior camouflage.

Azzurra lay paralysed, and watched.


CYRA.
1409, Third of June | Midday.

"The less 'accidents' that happen, the more smoothly our time here will go. Whatever you decide on with the Lord of Glasliugh, we need to make sure that your diplomacy is not destroyed by a foolish raid or burning of a village by our own over-eager youngsters," the old Hakon warned.

Cyra screamed. Din Din padded around her, seemingly accustomed to her alarm. She gazed around frantically, noting the dirty brown snow, the overwhelming pools of liquid and heaven knew what those hideous cubicle mountains were. But above all else she noted the unbearable, excruciating heat. The sun - if that was what it could be called - bled its golden fire into her skin and for a brief moment her alarm spiked. She was being illuminated from the inside out or outside in or- A stream of curses flowed from her lips with no small measure of creativity.

She leapt from the ship in an attempt to flee the spot she'd been in previously - a funeral pyre, if the heat and light were any indication - and yelped in surprise and agony as her feet sank into the dirty brown- "This is not snow! This is not snow!" Her fellow Fearnaans looked at her strangely where some nodded in understanding. There were, however, a modest number of Thorvaald's tribe who slapped their foreheads in exasperation. "What in all of Fearnaan is this? Explain yourself!" she commanded of the nearest, poor soul, as if he were responsible for the state of the world. Cyra growled in frustration as she stormed through the soft muck, tearing at her clothes and gradually undressing herself or rather ripping the furs from her body. The heat was absurd and she thought this must be how their meals feels stretched over a fire. Her garments fell to the ground until she was clad in little next to nothing. Nearby, Din Din immersed himself in the ocean shores but even the water was warm.

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"It lifts heart to have eyes fall upon good Hakon once more!" said Thorvaald heartily. "Your presence alone instills caution on the pups; they will cast down thoughts of needless aggression while we are at our host's mercy. Come! Let us catch up on recent events while we wait for him to send us his greetings. I would break words with an old friend towards concerns that must be addressed and decisions that must be weighed. What has caught good Hakon's attention as of late?"

Hakon grunted in response and gestured outside. He led Thorvaald from beneath the tent into the midday sun. It was warm here, a pleasant, northern summer. Glasliugh often made him wonder what Fearaan would look like without the perpetual layers of ice and snow over its interior. To be sure, the Southern coasts of Fearaan were often without snow in the summer, the entirety of the island's livestock and crop farming was conducted on the wide coasts there. But only a few miles inland, there was a layer of winter all year round. The mountains of Fearaan had been encrusted with ice from the moment they rose out of the sea in the Before Time. Still, if the snow was gone, and the ice melted away, Hakon imagined Fearaan would look very similar to this land of the Horse-Lords. He leaned on the haft of his axe as he spoke.

"The city of Baile lies there." He pointed towards the mighty mountain range in the distance. "Right at the base of what they call 'The Spine'. I have never been inside the city myself, but I have seen its walls, and it is a mighty holdfast. I do not believe that we could take it if you so desired, not unless we joined our forces with the Elk to share in the plunder. However, even then it would be almost unfeasible, and I doubt the chances of cooperation with the Elk."

Suddenly, a scream ripped through the air. Hakon spun to see Cyra leap off the side of Thorvaald's flagship. She stomped around in the muddy turf of the beach, swearing and stripping. Hakon was not surprised. He did not believe that the girl had ever been this far south in her life before. I must have felt like the sun had dropped out of the sky and hung right above her. He remembered that feeling, the first time he had sailed from Fearaan. Though it had not affected him to this degree. Still, he felt a pang of compassion for the she-wolf. He glanced at Thorvaald before stalking towards her. He kept his axe in hand, in case she decided to lash out in her confusion. She was only a little better than naked by the time Hakon reached her.

"Damn She-Wolf, do you whimper at the touch of a little sun? Do you cower at his glare?" He rasped. He wondered if she could even hear his broken voice above her own swearing. At that moment, Saks returned from flying overhead. The raven perched on his shoulder and cawed at her.

"Sun... SUN!" The jet black bird mocked.

"You're lucky this isn't the true South-Lands she-wolf. The lands of sand and ash and fire. The land of Surt and the Fire-Demons. I have been there, she-wolf, and you should not complain. When your skin boils and falls off your flesh, when the very air you breathe is a dry, arid fume, then you can scream to me." He growled, with a hint of a smile.

Hakon pointed at the white tent.

"Now run along under the sheet, she-wolf. Hide from the sun if you like, but you will never feel better unless you grapple it head on."

Hakon looked back towards Thorvaald, and the mountains in the distance. He could only wonder what the situation was like in Baile. For the Duke to ask for their aid, to offer the hand of friendship, Aenerin must be in dire straits indeed. Hakon understood that the man did not disguise his or his country's open hostility with the raiders of Fearaani, so things had to be bad indeed.

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CYRA
1409, Third of June | Midday.

Cyra could see no reason for the scowling Viking's personhood in this dimension besides to serve as the bane of her existence. Never in all her time with the Wolf Tribe had she seen his lips so much as twitch toward an approximation of a smile. He incited fear where he stepped, his heart quaking nature and skill with the long axe rippling from his every step like a black death. She found the hushed warnings of his extensive killing sprees and the wide mouthed awe of his comrades, enemies and admirers pitiful. He was nothing more than a grouchy old man who'd long outlived his purpose. He was irritably calm, unconscientious in his brutality and colder still than the wiry spikes of Fearnaan's ice giants. In short, he pissed her off, and she was quite fond of him.

Cyra would sooner driver her own axe through her spine than admit it, of course. Just as being depressing was his life's purpose, making his job of existing as uncomfortable as inhumanly possible was hers. He insisted on disrupting her fun and so she would insist on having more of what she considered "fun," like freeing all of the Wolf Tribe's sled dogs, dripping honey into his ample beard, painstakingly unravelling the crude seams of his garments, eavesdropping on his every conversation, lacing his drinks with hallucinogenics, bribing whores to extract his deepest desires and woes - they all failed, unfortunately for them - and strutting about nude to distract his soldiers. He was her greatest obstacle and her greatest pleasure.

The tribe's midwife had once warned the "little wolf" not to bite the hand that fed her. Hakon was, after all, the one who'd not only cared for her but taught her to wield her axes with the strength, ferocity and skill she did. In reply, she'd said, "I am not ungrateful. My gratitude simply surpasses any ordinary gestures of affection. I am a complicated and disturbed child in desperate need of acceptance, moyardor." Cyra had even accompanied her proclamations with a hand to her forehead and the respectful word for the older midwife. "Hakon, he understands my love for him." The midwife had given her a sagely nod and patted her arm, saying that she understood as well. Idiot. Cyra had dabbed away a droplet in the corner of her eye and praised her astounding skills in lie formation.

"Damn She-Wolf, do you whimper at the touch of a little sun? Do you cower at his glare?" Whimper? Cower? Oh, he'd challenged her indeed. She tilted her head upwards and fixed her face into a haughty expression as she planned his inevitable demise. "You're lucky this isn't the true South-Lands she-wolf. The lands of sand and ash and fire. The land of Surt and the Fire-Demons. I have been there, she-wolf, and you should not complain. When your skin boils and falls off your flesh, when the very air you breathe is a dry, arid fume, then you can scream to me."

All of the tribe and beyond knew of his endeavours and achievements beyond the frozen lands of Fearnaan. That was not to say he had to show off. One day, Cyra promised herself the Nordic deities above. In particular, Freyja, whom she had been pledged. The Goddess was praised for her beauty and sensuality and many a foolish man had been fooled by her deceptive sweetness. They paid the greatest price for their ignorance, for she imparted death and war upon mortal men. Hakon would pay a hefty price for his condescending arrogance. Perhaps she would fill his head with lice.

"Now run along under the sheet, she-wolf. Hide from the sun if you like, but you will never feel better unless you grapple it head on." Fine, she thought with a glance and devious grin at Hakon's men. She would "grapple it head on." She was the greatest tracker Fearnaan had ever seen, she could make rabbits out of rocks and speak to the animals as if she were one of them herself. Cyra the Wolfspirit was also nuts. Peanut brittle had nothing on her.

Striding in front of Hakon, she quickly stripped herself of the rest of her clothing, revealing toned legs that stretched through mountains and rivers and met wide, feminine hips. She wore nothing but a simple loincloth, her breasts full and visibly buoyant with every step. Hakon and Thorvaald's men stared blatantly, calling indecencies and whistling wildly. Even some of the women chimed in. Cyra grinned and strutted along the shores with pride and glory. The Fearaani were not a shy people and Cyra was the queen of exhibitionism. She was aware of her gifts and she made sure everyone else was aware of them too. The unrelenting sun caught the sheen of her golden hair and cast a halo around her head. She spun around and tossed Hakon a wink, her hands on her hips and a smirk on her lips.

"As you can see, I am 'grappling' the fire," she declared. It was then that she saw the chief of the Wolf tribe, the only human being she could and would ever even mildly enjoy the company of. Despite being the leader of a barbaric people - herself included, although her reasons for savagery were just, where the other two-legged fools were simply ridiculous - he was a honourable, kind and charming man.

"Thorvaald!" she called out, completely ignoring Hakon's existence now that half the reason for her journey across the oceans in the storage room of a ship was present. Cyra dashed at Thorvaald and crushed the man to her bare chest. At six feet tall, she was abnormal even for a Fearaani and stood above the strongly built chief of the Wolf tribe. She pressed her entire body against his as her large wolf huffed beside her, nudging her away from the man he so disliked with his head. Yet it was Thorvaald who allowed Din Din to continue to be her equal companion when all others demanded he be killed or enslaved.