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Click hereThey stood like that for a long time, only pressing their bodies together and kissing. But after a time, Annikki decided that they had better part then or they likely never would, so she pulled back and pulled up her pants before she closed her shirt.
"Goodnight, Ren," she smiled as she left another kiss on his lips, "I will come as soon as I am able.
"Goodnight, Nikki," he smiled, surprised that he'd managed it. She kissed his cheek and turned to go.
As he watched her walk away, ...
As she walked up the rocky path in the trees, ...
Each one wondered how what had passed between them had happened. By his own admission, Ren was agonizingly shy and here he'd held and kissed Nikki for a few moments.
Nikki was careful on her way back up, and she wondered what she could do to help Ren through the winter if it came to that. She had no idea, really.
She just knew that he was wonderful and that it had felt so good to hold him.
She continued on, not even aware that she walked with a small smile on her lips.
Ren felt the cold of the night then. But he wrapped his seal-ish skin around his shoulders and walked back to his rock to sit lost in thought with a smile of his own.
He had no idea how to get through the winter, but he didn't care at the moment.
She liked his hands.
- COMMENTS
Rad'lover 9 years agoA beautiful story; it held my attention as in a vise. Thank you for the effort.
cittranalmost 11 years agoYour definition of 'short' is vastly longer than the definition of 'short' that most authors on here seem to abide by.
Because your 'short' story of 7 chapters could be equivalent to double that length for another author.
Which I like.
TaLtos6almost 11 years agoAuthorDesperately trying not to give away the story line here, but one chapter to cement a few things, one to chronicle the additions of a few secondary characters and one to get them to the end. So that's, ... three and maybe four. The hard part is that somebody like Louhi just doesn't do Christianisation very well. As a general rule, as Christianity moved through the Scandinavian countries, lords after about 950AD liked the idea of not having to die well to go to Valhalla. The Viking age was fading out and the lords were becoming like any other lords in the European theater. They much preferred living well and tended to convert their serfs and clansmen at the point of a sword. Orkneyjar was converted by only the spoken threat that every abstainer would be killed on the spot. I'm quoting this from Wikipedia - "the islands were Christianised by Olav Tryggvasson in 995 when he stopped at South Walls on his way from Ireland to Norway. The King summoned the jarl Sigurd the Stout and said "I order you and all your subjects to be baptised. If you refuse, I'll have you killed on the spot and I swear I will ravage every island with fire and steel." Unsurprisingly, Sigurd agreed and the islands became Christian at a stroke." So it wasn't as though anyone had a choice.
There were supposedly very powerful shamans and shamanesses throughout the north. The females were sought after for all manner of things like divination and a little creative sorcery to aid in the outcomes of battles, They were well-paid for their services. And there was a component of sex magic to it. There were male practitioners, but they weren't so well-received since they were practicing something that northmen tended to see as a womanly domain and to their way of thinking, there was something unmanly about it.
Regardless, the church saw ALL of them as a threat and of course we know how any manner of "witches, hedge mages and warlocks were dealt with, right?
cittranalmost 11 years agoI mean, I doubt it will end up anywhere close to Marble's length (hell, I can't think of ANY single story, written by one author, that has so much content), but I'd guess at least as many chapters as Industrial Elf.
