Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-29461586-20141227022405/@comment-5583506-20141228193637

"Clan Cave-Bear wanted a truce", said Valkyrie. "And my honourable father Bitvarg the Elder was sadly foolish enough to believe that was the case. The clans had been at each others throats for decades and he was sick of all the fighting so they decided that the two families would meet on the tundra in Whiterun hold."

She froze up and stared blankly out in front of her. "I... remember how we younger pups sat in the carriage. Me, my little sister Lilja and my little brother Hemming. I remember... seeing Rigvar, my older brother riding just beside the carriage... My father rode ahead to greet Sturkas Cave-Bear, the other clan's Patriarch. Only... he was never there..."

She fell silent for a moment. Her gaze seemed to stare at something in the distance. "I barely had the time to blink until I noticed Rigvar... his chest was suddenly filled with arrows... and more kept coming. Men with weapons came charging down the hills... Bandits", she spat. "Only that they were payed... hired by that swine fodder of a man Sturkas."

She regained consciousness. "My father grabbed Frostbite and cut down one, maybe two of those bastards, but they just kept coming. My mother Hildi ran out of the carriage to look after Rigvar, not realising he was already as dead as any man can be. My uncles Ulftand and Torsdolk began swinging their weapons, taking down bandit after bandit, but Ulftand was lost when a throwing axe hit his abdomen. Torsdolk disappeared somewhere during the second wave."

She lowered her head and looked at her hands. They were trembling. "My older brother Varg took it upon himself to take us out of the carriage and his us underneath it, but even he couldn't withstand five bandits at once. They cut his throat right in front of us and I can still feel his blood spraying over my face. My aunt Ylva had taken an axe to the back and was lying just a few yards away. The last to go was my mother, with a spear through the back of her head."

She stopped for a moment just to see their reactions. "The last of us pups just sat there underneath that carriage and didn't dare to move. We wanted to scream, but we knew that if we did, we would be as dead as the rest of the family core of our clan."