Jun. 28th, 2014

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[personal profile] myshootingstar
Minx storms into the bar, yelling over her shoulder as she comes. “You crashed her, X! You! The Star did exactly what she’s designed to do. It’s not my fault you clipped the rail and DNF’d!”

She slams the door and then realises where she is. With an exhausted sigh, she heads to the couch by the fire and collapses into it. She’s dressed very differently than last time she arrived – all practical black and flat shoes with a small handgun clipped to her hip.

Bother her; she’d be glad of the distraction.
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Earl Ingstad is quite busy these days, readying ships and fighters--men and women--to join Earl Ragnar and King Horik in the vengeance-raid on England, and possibly leave some settlers behind to farm there once the fighting is done. Earl Ingstad is a capable leader, and experienced at raiding, but hasn't had the chance to go on a proper raid since Northumbria, several years ago now.

Earl Ingstad Lagertha, Earl of Hedeby, armed and armored from a session of training her shieldmaidens, steps through a door to somewhere she hadn't intended to go. It looks nothing like anywhere she's ever been, and when she turns back, she can no longer see her training yard.

So she does what she does whenever she's in an unfamiliar, possibly dangerous situation: keeps a hand near her axe, stares holes into anyone who looks like they might be trouble, and waits for things to make sense.

Fighting makes sense. Fighting, she knows.

[tinytags: lagertha]