The year and a season since Vigdis met Odilio has proven fruitful, the warrior maiden assembling a sizable band and a string of victories, thanks to her uncanny ability to outmaneuver her enemies as though she has an eye in the sky. This presents a problem, as if the curse is broken, Odilio can no longer scout for her.
Perhaps Freja can allow the lad to become a male Valkryie?
Follows on from: https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04894-m145-making-the-effort
Search for [Swan] here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie -- Deathshead419
Vigdis became known as the Warrior Queen. She led a sortie of five hundred horsefolk and held three strongholds against her enemies. Not a Queen by the more verdant southern lands that Odilio came from, but Queen enough for the frozen north.
She had gone from three bowfolk and five lancers to a rank that gave her her choice of bedmates, and power enough to make other warlords parley for surrender.
Vigdis shared her tent or her chambers with Odilio, and none other. Rewarding him with her care and attention, as well as the best food she could get for him. On idle nights when rare peace descended on her lands, she would stroke his snow-white feathers and sigh, "You are so useful as a bird, and so dear to me as a friend. I know I could break your curse, but... you've been instrumental in my gaining power. It's selfish to keep you like this, but I fear what may turn about if I lose your aid."
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