"Suddenly a horn was blown. Loud voices sounded from the shore over to Asmund. Mother quickly called him to the house and as he ran over, his little brother Hagen hurried after him. In mother's eyes was horror, Asmund saw and he began to worry. In his sixteen summers he had never seen her so frightened. He stood still, slowly beginning to realize what was happening, while Mother hastily packed bags. His sister Eira was loaded with stuff and sent to the rear gate of the settlement and Mother urged Asmund and Hagen to go with her. Asmund took his shield from the wall and shouldered it, then they left. From the gate came Father, armed and covered in mail. He knelt down before his children and took Asmund's head in his hands and told him to go with Mother and Eira and Hagen and protect them. As he stood up to rush to the skirmish down at the shore, Mother came from the house carrying an axe. She gave it to her oldest without hesitation and they turned inland. But then, Asmund looked back and saw smoke rising from the houses down by the sea. He saw Father and one of his friends slay a raider before more pushed up from the shore, the heads of their axes shimmering in the sunlight of this fateful fall morning."
My rendition of Legacy Chapter 1. Hope you guys like it! Skål!
