Tur: An Elsker Saga Novella (The Elsker Saga)

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Author: S.T. Bende
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marking his scroll. When he did, Ull nodded.
    “Took you long enough, Grandfather.”
    “Ah, my Terrific Tre .” Odin’s remaining eye crinkled in a smile. He’d lost the other one so long ago, nobody remembered what he’d looked like without the eye patch.
    “I presume we shall continue in our posts.” Ull stood to leave.
    I could never have been that cavalier – the Head of Asgard made me kind of nervous.
    “Not quite – sit, son.” Odin climbed down from his golden throne and walked our way. Gunnar raised an eyebrow; this was different.
    “I do not know if you have heard the rumors.” Odin sat across from us in a wooden chair.
    Of course we’d heard the rumors. They were all anyone could talk about anymore. Dark factions were allegedly moving to strike Asgard, some kind of a preemptive Ragnarok attack. Travel between the realms had been banned for over a week.
    “Does this have anything to do with the Valkyries running the humans through new fight sequences?” Gunnar sounded guarded.
    Odin grimaced. “My sources in Alfheim tell me their dark brothers intend to attack soon.”
    “Svartalfheim? Why don’t the light elves stop them?”
    Odin shook his head. “You know they have no control over the dark elves.”
    “So what does this mean?” Ull’s eyes narrowed.
    “It means that things are changing in Asgard. And I shall need the three of you to change as well.”
    Oh here it comes, here it comes. Inga Jensson Andersson, I hereby appoint you Head Valkyrie. Junior Valkyrie. Any Valkyrie .
    “We will always serve Asgard.” Ull’s sense of duty had nothing on the overwhelming joy I felt. I was finally going to get to do what I was really good at. And Gunnar couldn’t say anything to stop it because the realm needed me.
    Please, please, please. Please .
    “I am glad to hear you say that, Ull. Gunnar, you shall continue to serve as a warrior. We need your leadership, now, more than ever.”
    “Happy to do my part.” Gunnar bowed his head with a smirk. I stopped just short of rolling my eyes. He’d earned the right to be cocky… that was what made him so freaking sexy.
    “Inga,” Odin continued. I pressed down on my thighs to stop my legs from bouncing. “I shall require that you exercise your gift for analyzing attack patterns to develop the most effective counter moves for the dark elves.”
    “You need me to fight the dark elves? Hand to hand?” I asked hopefully.
    “No, I need you to analyze their movements over the past millennium. Determine their methodology and systematize a counter attack to debilitate them.”
    My shoulders dropped. Bloody Helheim. The end of the cosmos was upon us, and I still had to be an advisor?
    “Yes, Odin.” I blinked back tears.
    Gunnar rubbed my back with the tips of his fingers. “Sorry.”
    I shrugged in reply.
    “And Ull, I shall need to shift your duties as well.”
    “Grandfather.” Ull’s voice had an edge.
    Odin held up his hand. “I understand, but you must protect your realm. You know this.”
    “What are you asking of me?”
    Odin held Ull’s gaze. “For the time being, and remember this is only until the threat from Svartalfheim has been eliminated…”
    “Yes?”
    “You shall set aside your post as God of Winter and pick up the duties of God of War.”
    Oh, no. This was not going to be pretty.
    “That is Tyr’s job.” Ull growled.
    “He is… otherwise occupied.”
    “Grandfather, I cannot accept. We have discussed this.” Ull kept his voice steady but his jaw twitched. That wasn’t a good sign.
    “And I have respected your feelings in the past. But the well-being of Asgard is at stake, and I need my strongest warrior overseeing the battle.”
    “I would never turn my back on my realm. I will fight. But you cannot ask me to take that title.” The twitch in Ull’s jaw kept rhythm with his clenched fist. He was seriously displeased with this turn of events.
    “I am not asking.” Odin stood. “You shall assume the post God

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