Chapter 7
Ivar
I summoned the goddess Eir to heal this woman. Suddenly, my body started to glow with a bright light, but the woman's warm body was turning cold in my hands.
"I... I see him," the woman murmured, drawing my attention. I opened my eyes.
"Who do you see?"
"I see the god, Odin," she replied.
The woman's eyes were fixed on mine, burning with unshed tears. Something was changing in her; the transformation had stopped, and she was slowly dying.
"The god Odin has come to take me," she said.
My eyes widened. Odin is both the god of war and death. Any person's who died in this village is believed to have been taken by him. He is the one eyed alfather who sacrificed his eye for wisdom. He only came to take the souls of the dead. This meant the woman was dying.
"I... I feel no pain in me," she murmured.
I heard sniffing, and when I turned, it was the woman's husband.
"She is dying," I said. "She shall not see nightfall."
"No!" the man cried. "Please…. do something."
