![]() “For Lucia, I dare this and more,” Regin answered proudly. For one so powerless and insignificant, you dare much, Valkyrie.” Had interest flickered in the goddess’s eyes? “The Broken Bloody One?”Ĭanting her head at Regin in an appraising way, Skathi said, “You’re not even old enough to be a true immortal yet. “Because you’re both neighbor and nemesis to the one who did this.” Skathi asked Regin, “Why bring her here?” This hold was carved into the heights of Godsbellow Mountain, shaken continually by thunder. ” But her words were drowned out by a rumbling boom. Lucia struggled for consciousness, labored to speak. In answer, Regin pursed her lips, looking as if she were sizing up Skathi’s shins for a good kicking. Regin-all of twelve years old, with Lucia’s blood covering her glowing skin-said, “What can you do? Torture my sister? Murder her? She has already survived the first and is about to succumb to the second without your aid.” ![]() ![]() “You deliver this into my sacred place,” Skathi the Huntress of the Great North said to Regin, “and desecrate my altar? You court my wrath, young Valkyrie.” Somehow her younger sister, Regin the Radiant, had found Skathi’s temple and had brought Lucia here.įrom one altar to the next, she thought deliriously as her fever raged. ![]() Lucia the Maiden cracked open her eyes and found herself atop an altar, staring up at a furious goddess. ![]()
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