Wilderness of Issgord, Anarcticus - Mörsugur 412 I.E
A month passed since her father's death by that dread beast, Everest travels to the now abandoned camp that belonged to the Laurasian Imperials from the Northlands.
She gets off of her Issgord Snow-feather Sharptooth and enters the old building in search of any relics from before the raids. Arming herself with Thordryn and her ice forge shield She ventures inside the abandoned facility, entering the snow cover building to see the dank halls only lit by the sunlight via the windows that litter the halls. She walks towards the hallway that goes to the left wing of the building, where a room is located. She walks a bit when she the door slowly opens and makes the sounds of creaking. Everest raised her sword and shield in a defensive position, and out from the room came a moist-bird (crossvallia).
Lowering her weapon, she smirks and says, "Getting all worked up for nothing." before investigating the room, only for it to be an office. It was a medium size office with a few shelves containing old books, and a cabinet with nothing but dust in it. There's an old desk made from stone that has a book and an old lamp.
Everest examines the book and turns the pages, only to see nothing but blank pages, and proceeds to put the book in her pack before going further to the hall. She comes across the restrooms and even an old storage room where she proceeds to enter, only to find old plastic mop buckets and a large metal locker. Everest opens it to find a few old papers that she grabs and places in the backpack that hangs on her back.
She leaves and finally reaches the healing room to find old beds and many cabinets and drawers but only a few bandages and one red bottle were all that remain. She leaves and searches for the mess hall. She didn't want to waste time and hastened toward the mess hall. She reaches the area and opens the door to see an empty, dark room with rows of tables and chairs all covered with frost.
Everest goes to the kitchens in search of foods to find some expired and rotten fruits. She curses before deciding to leave the ruins. By the time she exits the ruins, she checks the positioning of Sol to see that star is at the center of the sky. She leaves the building with the supplies she'd found. She climbs on the back of her mount when she sees the large white mermaid-like beast. Druphir Sharptooth, a large Ningen that had been seen around these parts of the icy land. Everest placed her backpack on the passenger side of her animal before grabbing her weapon and shield. "DRUPHIR!" Everest shouts at the beast to gain its attention, and her mount growls.
It bellows angrily as it twists its head and faces the husky, preparing to swipe the husky, but Everest does not hesitate as her snow-feather sharptooth runs towards the beast and swings her swords across the belly of this abhorrent monster, and her mount bites at the left arm. She manages to cut the beast, giving it a few cuts, but it smashes its hands onto the icy ground. It seeks out Everest, who begins to climb on its back, using its scales and fur to maneuver until she reaches the top of its head, where she plunges the blade into the Druphir's skull a few times. Blood pours out of each wound with each stab before the Ningen falls. Everest jumps off from the beast but is soon knocked out by Druphir's claw. Her Snow-feather sharptooth tries to wake her, only for her to scent seidr magic in the air. It begins to tire before falling onto her side next to her owner and falling alseep.
For an unknown amount of time, Everest remains unconscious before she has awoken in a strange stone room with rags and charms dangling from the ceiling. These charms were runes and the floor was the recognizable Issgord stone foundation but the walls were wooden. Despite this, her equipment and even Thordryn were beside her. She gathers her belongings and gets on her two boot-cover feet.
She exits the strange room to come across a woman in dark clothing. Her eyes were covered by bondage and her skin was as pale as the snow. Her exposed skin is littered with runes and other tattoos such as the Valknut.
"Uumm, I want to thank you for bringing here but I don't recall of any Snaervolva led alone any nordheimr being here." Everest tells the witch as she turns to face the husky. "You awake Everest, daughter of Thoric Bronsson."
"Yes, I better get going now but I do appreciate all you've done for me." Everest nervously says to the witch when she speaks in a whispery voice. "Please daughter of Thoric, drink this." The woman bends over to pick up a bowl containing a strange liquid. Everest asks why as the woman tells her to drink it.
The bowl was made from stone and the red almost blood liquid swished around as the husky drank from the bowl. At that moment her stomach churned as she grabbed her stomach and groaned in pain. She feels her gut grumble and is ready to vomit as she asks why before grabbing her sword to see the witch disappear. "What the fuck is going on?" She says to herself as she turns to find herself in a void. Standing on snowy grounds and looking outwards at the darkness.
She then saw a shape out in the distance, it had a yellow glow. She follows the glow as every step on the snow makes a crunching sound. She began to run for the glow until it fades. "No,no, no, no!" She shouts when the glow fades away. She drops onto her knees and prays for Ullr, her god, when her god came out from the shadow. A man with skin pale as the ground, his beard and hair were as blue as ice. He stood tall and asked for her to stand.
Everest obeyed her god and asked about the glow or the witch as he remained silent. The glow came back but from afar but Everest didn't care and made her attempt to run towards it only for Ullr to speak to her. "You won't reach it in time, Only when you die will you finally reach Glasir after you've walked the Bifrǫst and listened to Gjallarhorn's hums. Only then you shall be able to touch the Glasir and enter Ydalir young warrior." Ullr spoke like an elderly man whose voice was raspy.
"But Lord Ullr what of the Snærvölva? Does she owe her allegiance to you holy one?"
"I know not her name," Ullr speaks as Everest's vision goes blank. She awakens in the stone building with the witch nowhere to be seen but Hrunar and Leif enter the home. Leif reaches out for his little sister and grabs her hand, helping her onto her feet as looks for the witch. "I told you to get back to Kjrimfelki Evergreen, But at least you're good." Hrunar scolds her as Everest asks about the Snærvölva.
"There is no Snærvölva Everest, this building has been abandoned for centuries now long before the coming of the Nordheimr and the Laurasian saurians. No one has used it and it is spoken that evil Seidr used to be practiced here by dark shamans attempting to commune with demon gods of a realm called Hell. Of course, the shamans were slaughtered by our forebearers in the ancient past."
Hrunar explained to her as Everest looked confused and swore that there was a Snærvölva who rescued her and made her drink from a bowl filled with strange liquid that caused her to see a vision of Glasir.
"Strange, No tracks before your own footprints lead in or out from this place regardless you saw a sign from Ullr and he has plans for you if you saw Glasir, the Tree of Valhǫll. But we are destined for Ydalir, the Hall of Ullr, and Skaldi. Come, Everest, Leif let's get back to the barracks and get something to eat, My stomach growls for the eggs of moist-feathers."
"Awe what about the Momma moist-feathers?"
"They are just animals, Everest, There are plenty of them from the other lands. Ullr knows what life is like out there." Leif said to his sister as they left the old curse cabin, they went to their mounts with Hrunar taking his snow-feather sharptooth. Everest goes to her animal who began to awaken and sees her master. Everest assures her animal that she's ok before hopping on her saddle. . Everest looks back at the cabin, Her head resting on the window, looking the open doorway as they head back to the barracks in Kjrimfelki.
