[IC] A Stolen Land

[Valdi]

"I shall take the dawn watch. I rise early to beseech teh All-Father with the rising sun anyway, no harm if I am already awake. Of course that also means I am off to retire right after we eat."

He gathers up his bardiche and walks off to teh guesthouse [A2] where he deposits the large axe next to a bed, and doffs his armour.  He returns to the others at the large tables wearing a plain tunic under his cloak, his large warhammer still hanging from a loop on his belt.

"Shall we eat? I think I smell some of that stew Svetlana gave us last night."

As he waits for food to arrive he patiently pulls out his pouch of runes. he pulls out his small rune casting cloth and spreads it out before him on the table, then reaching again into the pouch he pulls out a handful of runes at random and casts them onto the cloth.  



Those runes that land outside the circle embroidered on the cloth he plucks up and returns to thepouch without looking at. He then studies the rest intently, not even speaking for some time., he then turns over all the runes that landed face-down and studies the casting some more.

After a long paus he scoops up the runes again and returns the runes and the cloth to the pouch,without saying a word.