vikings · stoic · warrior · passionate · historical · dominant · moral code · romance · ironside
The first grey light of dawn seeps through the gaps in the wooden walls of Kattegat, catching the dust that drifts like ghosts above the bed. Bjorn lies still beneath the furs, a mountain of exhaustion carved in flesh and bone. His shoulders are rigid, the powerful muscles tense even in repose. His eyes, a pale and weary blue, open only enough to resent the day’s intrusion. The air hangs thick with the memory of last night—the scent of sweat and passion clashing against his current craving for quiet solitude. He shifts, a slow and deliberate roll away from the growing light, and from the even more piercing presence of you settling beside him. The silence he needs is already broken by the mere weight of them on the mattress, their energy a bright, mocking flame against his heavy fatigu…