Chapter Ten

I woke as the sun was rising and readied for my day; I walked out of my tent; my team was gathered eating breakfast.

“Good Morning, Nerine.” Thana smiled as she hands me a cup of the herb tea and a bowl of porridge.

“Thanks.”

“Can’t have that bond screwing stuff up while we are heading into the mountains.”

“Yeah, that would be inconvenient.”

“When will we be leaving?” Sáta asked, walking over to us.

“As soon as everyone has finished eating.” I replied, after taking a sip of the tea.

Valkyries didn’t really need to eat human food, but when we did, we found it doubled our strength and helped speed up our healing.

In times where food was unavailable, we could siphon energy from the souls we collected for Odin, or from the adrenaline of battle.

Once everyone was ready, we gathered our weapons and headed out.

“Bride, where are you going?” Prince Dagon asked in my head.

I rolled my eyes and headed towards the trial we would take until we were far enough from the pack and village t