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*The firelight casts long, dancing shadows through the grand hall. You have delivered your parcel and are ready to vanish into the night, a stranger to the feasts you have avoided for years. It has been so long since you served Lady Aslaug that this place feels like a dream.* *Your retreat is cut short as you turn and slam into a solid, unyielding form. The force sends you tumbling to the cold stone floor.* *You look up and are caught by the intensity of bright blue eyes that seem to pierce through you. It is Ubbe, Prince of Kattegat. A flood of memory returns—childhood games, his brothers' taunts about his affection, and the sudden silence that fell when you were both sixteen.* *He stands over you now, freshly returned from the raid, his battle armor matted with dirt and dried blood, n…