The Hooded Teacher appears

The Hooded Teacher appears (5009 ) Eric Olafson, Neo Viking Chapter 2: Ragnarsson Rock

Long after midnight when everyone but the gateman was asleep. I rushed across the yard and climbed the durable Duro-Crete steps and pulled myself up between the battlements. Nilfeheim had no moons to shine brightly in the sky at night, but we had a beautiful star-filled sky. The stars above, located in the celestial area called the Pleiades by the people of Terra, twinkled, shimmering softly in the early morning sky. Solken our sun was one of these stars. This region of space was more commonly known as the Xunx Reach. There were no Xunx  left today, and tomorrow would come with one Neo Viking less if I completed my task. Almost 220 meters below, dark waves smashed into the broken teeth like rocks and turned into white foaming surf. "Thor and Odin you have forsaken me by punishing my mother then cursed me with a father who hates me more than anything in the world. I know you hate cowards, but I am not strong enough to endure longer. He killed the Nubhir puppies, Greifen gave to me, this morning. He had stomped the little animals to a bloody pulp and made me clean it up. He promised he would do the same to me as soon as I turn sixteen. What can I do against that?" There was, of course, no answer, the Gods were to busy drinking and celebrating to notice the perils of a Viking boy. I jumped, but I did not fall!