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One that I Want

Prologue: Time, Place, Motion

She just didn't understand why she couldn't get over him.

After all, he was only another guy. There were plenty of them down at her father's lumber yard and even more at the bar where she waitressed.

Most of them, nice, Swedish guys that had good family values and a hard work ethic, like a man should have... Just like he had.

Sure, he had been everything she had ever dreamed of... and sure he had held her hand, walked her through town, and kissed her under the moonlight; the white wolves crying their melodic praises to Odin for their own tender love.

Like the wolves, she had cried for weeks after he had left, she sat in her room, staring out at the Swedish snow falling outside her window, praying for his return.

At first she thought he was hurt... News about Tyr and Serveta's impromptu divorce spread quickly throughout the town, and immediately she had gone to look for him... for her love.

For Skwisgaar...

However, she knew where he was. She just didn't want to believe it.

He was with that horrible band of outsiders; the ones who came to Älvdalen, insulting the townspeople and stirring up trouble.

Perhaps he was confused, and that's why he left... perhaps they had even kidnapped him. She wouldn't have put it past them.

All she knew was, that the man she fell in love with was out there, somewhere... with the closure she needed.

A year had passed, and now that she had time to think, she knew what she had to do.

Emma Lindberg, 27, was on a quest... for nothing else, but answers.

((A/N: I know it's really short... but it's only a prologue... my chapters will be much longer than this. So... I'm curious as to what you all think! Please read and review! Thanks! ))