EPILOGUE II
“Phew, I somehow made it out alive...”
Sigrún crawled out of the water and looked around. She had approached the Körmt River in pursuit of Shiba, but when the earthquake hit, she had been swallowed up by the flood that had arrived in its wake. She immediately grabbed hold of a tree that had been nearby and made it out unscathed, but it felt as though she’d been washed quite a distance downstream.
“Where exactly am I?” Her surroundings had been thoroughly soaked by the flooding, and the newly formed fissures and crags had completely changed the terrain, meaning that she couldn’t ascertain her current location. “I wonder if everyone’s okay... They should be, given that Hilda was with them.”
As the bearer of the wolf’s rune, she had incredibly good hearing. She should have been able to hear the rush of water long before it arrived and gotten the Múspells to safety. Sigrún drilled that thought deeper and deeper into her mind as she began walking upstream. She walked in the hope that she’d find her companions in that direction.
The earthquake had been enormously powerful. She was worried about the state of Iárnviðr, and she was also greatly concerned for the welfare of the people that had been waiting a short distance away from the battlefield. She suddenly heard the sound of grass being shoved aside behind her. Even Sigrún felt a certain amount of anxiety under the circumstances. It was understandable, given the sheer abnormality of the situation. She turned around with a faint smile of happiness upon learning there was a fellow survivor, but as she caught sight of the person, she immediately tensed up. “Shiba...!”
The person who stood before her was indeed the man reputed to be the greatest general of the Flame Clan. It seemed he had noticed her presence, and his expression soon warped to show the aggressive grin of a predator that had just found its prey. “It really is you, Sigrún? Heheh... It seems that the heavens are going to grant my wish.” With that, he drew the sword on his hip. “This is perfect. Let us settle the score here and now.”
To be continued...
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