Outlander Page #2

Off you go!

Wait!

What's your name?

Answer him, lad.

Here. Are you hungry?

He wants to see the sword

that killed the bear.

No.

I'll trade you for your name.

Eric.

Eric.

A sword for a name.

Just bring it back in one piece.

His parents were killed

by raiders a year ago.

The boy'll be fine.

We take care of our own.

Shields!

Shields!

Shields! it is.

Shield! Shield! Shield!

You!

Kainan!

You.

Kainan! Kainan! Kainan!

Up!

Kainan! Kainan!

What now?

Follow me.

The Outlander's good.

Care to wager some gold on him?

No one beats Wulfric at shields.

Kainan!

Now you try this.

Oh hell.

Are you ready for this, Boromir?

I am now.

Okay.

Not bad.

Sorry.

Outlander, I wanted...

Kainan.

My name is Kainan.

Kainan,

I wanted to thank you for

bringing my father back to me.

For saving his life.

It happened so fast

I did it without thinking.

Like when you hit me?

Hit you?

Yes, sorry about that.

We're even now.

All the women are talking about you.

They say you're from a place

far beyond the ice.

I heard one say from

the home of the gods.

What do you think?

I think...

she was a little drunk.

Freya!

Eeveryone thinks that

bear killed your people.

It didn't.

It was the Moorwen and

it will come back.

Get the others!

It's Gunnar!

Get out of here!

Get out of here!

Get out of here!

Rothgar!

It's over. We've lost!

No!

Let me go!

Get your hands off me!

Rothgar!

The gate. Close the gate!

Rothgar!

Where are you

you bastard son of a b*tch?

Where's my wife?

Where's my boy?

You didn't even leave me their bodies.

If it takes a thousand years

I'll carve your heart out

of your rotting chest.

Do you hear me?

This is the man you want

to make peace with?

Are you all right?

I'm fine.

That looks deep.

Here let me clean it.

What happened out there?

Who was that?

That was Gunnar.

Gunnar?

King Halga, Wulfric's father...

called all the tribes together

for a raid on the Franks.

Gunnar never showed.

There was an ambush and

Halga was killed.

So Wulfric thinks

Gunnar betrayed him.

And Gunnar thinks his village

was destroyed in revenge.

That's right.

Wulfric is simple like his father.

He'll send a party into

the trees just before dawn.

And then attack from the main

gate first light.

But I think he's in for a surprise.

Gunnar said wait here.

Aethril?

Circle up. Circle up!

Get Wulfric and Rothgar up here now!

What's going on?

Wulfric!

Wait! Don't shoot!

Hold your fire. We surrender.

It's a trick.

Archers!

Ready!

Fire!

Wait!

Hold your fire, you bastards!

Wait!

No!

Open the gates!

Wulfric! No!

Look!

Now that is not a bear.

It was like hitting a stone wall.

I hit it with all I had.

Ran. Just like you ran from my father.

I'll cut your tongue out, boy.

Stop!

Both of you.

That thing is still out there!

The gods have cursed us all.

We should leave this place while

we can still save our families.

This is our home!

We are not going to let

that thing chase us out!

She's right! We're not leaving.

We're going to hunt this thing

down and kill it like Vikings.

Hunting won't work.

You can't take it on in the open.

It's too powerful.

Well, what else is there?

We trap it.

Even if you do track it down,

How are you going to kill it?

Why are we even listening to him?

He's not one of us.

That's right. I'm not.

But you're wrong about this, Wulfric.

Like you were wrong about and the bear.

And you'll always be wrong until

you stop thinking with this.

This is finished!

You're not one of us.

The decision is ours.

However, I'm still your king.

And my judgment is that

the Outlander is correct.

We build the trap.

So,

where do we start?

Here...

And ending... here.

What are you waiting for?

Dig!

The forge, what does it burn?

Wood.

What about the torches, the lamps?

Whale oil.

I'll need it.

How much?

All of it.

How's it coming?

Is it deep enough for you?

No.

Four more feet.

And when you got that...

I need two rows of postholes

running up both sides.

Post holes?

Yeah.

What do you need post holes for?

Posts.

Posts.

Posts.

Are we done now?

Not yet.

Not yet? What's left?

Shields?

Shields.

When this thing is over...

...there's a place here for you.

Should you wish it.

You hungry?

What about you?

I'll eat when you're finished.

No.

You sit.

Thank you.

I saw you talking to my father today.

What did he say?

He asked me to stay.

What did you say?

Freya...

You don't even know

what kind of man I am.

I know enough.

No, you don't.

So, tell me.

Kainan?

My people are no different than yours.

Hungry for land.

So when we found

an island we wanted,

we took it.

It didn't matter that it already

belonged to something else...

Moorwens. Millions of them.

But we wanted it.

After all, we told ourselves

they were nothing.

Just animals. Beasts.

So we killed them all with fire.

Those we missed, we hunted down.

You obeyed your king's orders.

You didn't have a choice.

You always have a choice.

Land that belonged to the Moorwens

now belonged to us.

As part of my pay I was given a place

for my family to live.

And I thought I could forget

what I'd done to get it.

Some things you can't

bury deep enough.

Hey! What are you doing?

That plant, it stung me.

It what?

It stung me.

Let me show you something.

Stay right here, okay?

Kainan.

The guns are up.

And there are none of them left.

You'll be safe.

I love you.

I love you, too.

Three weeks later I got word that

one of the Moorwens had survived.

And it got in our compound

and killed everyone.

It was the will of the gods.

It was their destiny.

There is no destiny.

There is no gods.

It was just me.

And I failed them.

I failed them.

This is a king's sword,

passed down from my ancestors.

My father gave it to me...

and told me that one day

I would know the man to give it to.

A good man.

If you truly believe that you

write the tale of your own life...

...then the end is up to you.

More arrows!

The gods be with you.

Boromir, close the doors.

Open the gates!

You sure this will work?

That's what I thought.

Hold this.

Gods above...

Wait for my order!

What's your damn priest doing?

I command thee, Lucifer,

quit this place!

Ready!

Wulfric!

Hold your fire!

Shoot!

Take my hand!

Shoot!

Hold!

Take it now!

Fire!

By the gods!

Freya?

Freya!

Freya!

Moorwen!

Kainan

There's another one!

Kainan!

everyone's leaving.

Eric, it's not safe here anymore.

Everyone's going to the boats.

You need to go, too.

But, I want to stay here with you.

You'll come back soon.

Everyone will.

You promise?

I promise.

Your boots, do you want them back?

No. They're his now.

What are you going to do?

You're king now.

King of what? This?

This... and them...

Whatever Herot becomes tomorrow...

will be because of

what you do right now.

Let's go kill this thing...

...together.

You're daft!

We're not going down there.

That's where it came from.

That's where we're going.

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