3 Wil, Willem

Eris fell asleep and didn't see the flashing color changing lights or hear the sound of an explosion. Though the ground shook both worlds no one from her world thought anything of it. In fact, as it was magick that caused it most didn't even feel it. In Eris' sleep she felt it but thought it just the revelry fire works.

Willem was just waking after the revelry, most were still asleep. He wished that he were. His mouth felt like a cat slept in it, his head was hurting. He needed to take a good long piss. He got up and was amused to find the whore he had fucked all night was asleep with a chunk of ice between her legs. Where did she find the ice he wondered as he exited the hall to go relieve himself. He wandered down to the forest line and took a long piss. He gave a shiver after it was done. The funeral pyres still burned but were lower now. There was a lake just past the tree lines were he had relieved himself. Now this would be a nice way to clean up after long days battling and a whole night of fucking Willem thought. He took off his clothes and got into the lake.

"My Lord it seems we had the same idea." Bjorn said from a different spot in the lake. "In the satchel you will find some soap."

Willem finished undressing opened the satchel and took out soap for himself. He stepped into the lake and splashed water over his body then used the soap. Once he soaped himself up he tossed the soap back to the satchel and got into the lake. The lake water was cool but not cold. The lake was very clean you could see to the bottom in the shallow places anyway. Willem dove under the water to get the soap off and to enjoy a swim. He surfaced at the other side of the lake. Felling more refreshed he took a handful of water and drank. It was crisp, cool, clean and very good. Yes these lands would be very valuable to his people. He noticed something at the horizon and decided to investigate it.

"Bjorn I am going to look around. See that the men and women get clean as well. I don't know when next we will have a chance to bath." He said before he swam back to get his clothes.

"Yes mi'lord." Bjorn said and finished getting bathed to go carry out his lords orders.

Willem got dressed quickly and headed towards the horizon. "Is it that trickster again? Perhaps it is a storm brewing or maybe something more foul." He said to himself as he went to get a closer look. He was far away from his men when he realized what he was seeing, "The World Eater" had come. Before Willem could turn and raise the alarm the explosion hit, lights exploded in the skies like fireballs and the whole earth shook violently. Willem stumbled, fell, and rolled hitting his head on a rock, then he landed at the bottom of the lake.

Eris' started to stir, the first thing she noticed was that someone had covered her in a blanket. She looked around but didn't see the strange man who had joined her last night drinking and then later for a swim. She felt a little nausea but she didn't have a headache, thank God for that she thought. She decided to head down to the lake to get some water on her face. She could see the morning just starting to rise and knew she would have to sneak back to camp to avoid any questions. She reached the shore Eris knelt down closed her eyes and splashed some water on her face. She rubbed her face and when she looked down she was shocked. The lake reflected an image of herself when she was 22. She rubbed her eyes vigorously thinking she must still be asleep and then looked again only to see her youthful reflection staring back. Before she could think she heard someone moaning. There was a man partly in the lake and partly out, lucky for him his head was out of the water. She rushed over to check on him. She patted his back hard and shook his shoulders, "Hello, my name is Eris can I help you I am first aide certified." she said.

Willem's head was pounding like he had been hit with a war hammer. Maybe he had he thought he remembered going to raise the alarm but everything else was fuzzy. Then he felt someone hitting his back lightly, he thought and shaking him that was annoying. He was about to rise up and say something when she started talking. He decided to roll over and look at this woman bothering him. Once he rolled over he heard her gasp and heard her fall back. He looked over this curious woman. She was wearing a crown well that was interesting usually the nobles hide their daughters or sent them off somewhere while the fighting took place. He looked around and didn't see anyone just her. He was sure then it was a trap no noble would leave his daughter without guard to save her virtue. He looked down at her found her very attractive but he growled anyway he wasn't going to be taken in by a pretty face.

"Wil?" She said almost in a whisper. Though her accent was strange he understood her and could not understand how she knew his childhood name. He would learn all he needed to know and wanted from her in time. First he had to get out of this trap. He put his hand out and strangely she took it. Well this will be a lot easier. He yanked her to him twirled her around pinning her arm behind her back and covering her throat with his other arm. "Where are your guards princess?" He growled into her ear.

Eris was shocked the man looked like Wil, well a younger Wil, but he looked so painfully much like Wil. She couldn't help but call out his name. When he put his hand out she thought it was to help her up. He pulled her up so fast and forcefully she could hardly catch her breath. When he pinned her and growled into her ear she knew it wasn't her Wil. Her Wil didn't have that accent and would never treat a woman so roughly. "Probably sleeping off a hangover." she said and tried to head butt him. He was quicker to move out of the way. She thrashed a little to find an opening to get free but to no avail. This man knew what he was doing he had taken a stance that kept his body protected from her and held her in such a way that she would only hurt herself or he could apply pressure to her arm and cause more pain. He applied pressure to her arm then tightened his hold around her neck then she stopped struggling. "Normally I enjoy a feisty woman but not today. Now tell me where are your men." Willem demanded. He must be crazy or on something either way not good, Eris thought. She screamed with everything she had her scream echoed all around them. He tightened his hold on her. To Eris' horror no one came running and no one yelled out offering to help.

Willem chuckled, "I suppose that will work too, if your men were still alive they would have come out for that scream."

A dream, I must still be dreaming, I just have to wake up close my eyes focus and... Eris thought.

"If you give me your royal word that you will not run I will let you go. We can walk back to the hold and then discuss things like who to demand a ransom from." Willem said when she didn't answer him he applied pressure on her arm.

The pain broke Eris' concentration, "Yes, yes you have my word." I am going to have to play this out until my conscious decides to wake up I guess, she thought. He released her and motioned for her to walk straight in front of him. As they reached the hill there was a group of men in Norse armor running towards them they all had weapons, real weapons.

"Mi'lord we heard the scream but we didn't know what was going on." Bjorn said to Willem.

Willem pointed to Eris, "Her royal highness thought to call her guard after I captured her it seems that you had already taken care of that." He said.

Bjorn looked confused, "We have not seen any men but the scouts we sent out earlier have not returned yet, perhaps they have seen them. Where did you find her?" Bjorn said.

Willem rubbed his head "After I woke up from hitting my head after the earth shake she was trying to rouse me." He said. "When I saw her crown I figured it must be a trap so I grabbed her and well now here we are."

Bjorn laughed. "A cowardly trap if that was their intent. Never mind them mi'lord if there are cur like that about they will be of no account to our men." All the men laughed at that. Willem took Eris's arm and pulled her with him as they all walked back to the hold.