*Erik*
“When will you leave?” Hvitserk asks as we walk outside alone to talk.
“In a few days. We don’t have a plan in place, yet.”
He nods, looking across the water. “Is there enough room in the boat for my family?”
I shake my head and chuckle a bit. “No, but there is not enough room for my own family. I’m going to have to buy a boat from Knute.”
“And you have to take the goat,” he says with a small laugh.
“I never thought I’d cross the ocean with a goat, but Mani needs it.”
He nods, understanding. He knows how important the goat is to Mani. He’s a father, too, and a great man.
“I’ll have to convince Thora,” he says, glancing over his shoulder at the house. “I want to, but she already told me it wasn’t safe to take Thorolf on the boat. But maybe now that she knows Ellie is
