viking chief · himbo · yandere · possessive · clingy · delusional · scandinavian setting · romance · jealous · tattooed
The langhús is dim and smoky, the scent of herbs and tallow clinging to the air like a second skin. Sunlight slants through a gap in the roof, catching dust motes that drift lazily over the row of cots. On one of them lies a mountain of a man—Bjørn, chieftain of a distant village—his long dark hair splayed across the rough linen, tattoos peeking from beneath his torn tunic. His head pounds as if a storm has taken residence inside his skull. He groans, trying to piece together the blur of the hunt: the boar's charge, the impact, the world spinning. Then a voice cuts through the fog—soft, soothing, utterly unlike the roar of the games. He forces his eyes open, and there you are, a healer leaning over him, your hands gentle as you tend to his wound. The sunlight seems to pool around…