Interlude
“...It’s over.” Sigyn gave a long, weary sigh, and caught her breath.
She stood in a place near to the Panther Clan army camp, in the simple makeshift sanctuary that had been constructed to conduct prayers for their victory. There was a blazing fire over which a few people where baking bricks from clay.
The man standing nearby had been waiting with bated breath, and now he questioned her in a feverish pitch. “And? How did things go?!”
He was Alexis, the imperial priest and representative of the Holy Ásgarðr Empire.
He was the man who had conducted the Chalice Ceremony which established the alliance between her Panther Clan and the Lightning Clan.
He had informed her of the fact that the Wolf Clan patriarch had been summoned to Yggdrasil by the seiðr Gleipnir from another world, and instructed her on how she might forcibly send him back.
“He’s disappeared... without a trace,” Sigyn said. “I’m sure he won’t be able to make it back to this world again.”
She had told herself that this was for her husband’s sake, for her clan’s sake, but in truth, this method would surely injure her husband’s pride, and that thought left a bad taste in her mouth.
If at all possible, she would have liked for her husband to use his power and wisdom to win a proper victory through force, but she had to admit that his opponent was too good.
She couldn’t believe he’d actually repelled a joint attack by both the Lightning and Panther Clan armies at once...
He had abilities that were beyond this world. Considering the future of the Panther Clan, this was a situation where she couldn’t afford to be choosy with her actions.
“Ohh, how wonderful,” Alexis enthused. “With this, our great empire will surely remain secure.”
“Hmph.” Sigyn coldly scoffed at Alexis’s delighted words, and pulled her cloak around her in irritation as she made to leave.
He asked, “Oh, where are you going?”
“I’m going to tell my husband. Without their patriarch and commander-in-chief, the Wolf Clan army is now nothing for us to fear.”
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