Video; Round-Trip Home

[ragnarsson]

[The video opens up with Ivar sitting on the edge of his bed, phone recording in one hand, and a knife being fiddled around with in the other. It's clear he's got something on his mind.]

So it turns out if you properly motivate people, they can get that portal fixed up to get you back home.

[It's best not to ask what motivation that was, but Ivar being Ivar, most everyone watching can probably figure it out.]

I'm going back home for a while to take care of some unfinished business. I left in the middle of a war and I need to see that through before I come back. [He pauses.] And don't bother trying to talk me out of this, I've already made up my mind. I'll see you all in two weeks.

[He waves goodbye with the knife and then cuts the video. Looks like the Quarantine has a reprieve from the crazy Viking for the next fourteen days. But he'll be back. Ivar's far too tough to do something as basic as dying back in his home world.]

Comments

[likeacoupon]

I expect campfire stories when you get back.

[Willa flashes him a brief smile though her voice is laced with a thin tint of sarcasm.]

[ragnarsson]

There'll be plenty of stories. Hopefully you have a strong stomach for most of them.

[Viking stories were always bloody, violent, and brutal.]

[likeacoupon]

That really depends on the story teller.

[Is he going to sit there and describe what it looks like when you shove an ax into someone's head or just say that there was an ax in someone's head.]

[ragnarsson]

All Norsemen are good storytellers. That's what happens when there's nothing else for entertainment during six months of winter.

[Oh, it'll definitely be the first one. Ivar gonna Ivar after all.]

[likeacoupon]

Then I'll look forward to it.

[And maybe make faces at him as he explains how blood congeals.]