December 4th
Noila had her arms filled with cloths. Her mother had told her to take it to the anvil, her father needed it. It was old and no one used it anymore. She almost fell when she dropped it.
"Phew" she moaned and whipped her forehead. Her hair felt soft, her mom had just combed it this morning.
Suddenly she heard a noise from her uncle's room. But uncle Thognar was in the kitchen, eating a big breakfast for his long trip. Her father was getting ready for a days work as a blacksmith, and her mom was getting ready to wash cloths. Sesu was outside… wasn't he?
There the sound was again. Noila slowly walked to the room. Maybe it was rats. They had had rats before, but father took care of them, they wouldn't dare to come back he had said.
Uncle Thognar's sward was leaning up against his bed. it was moving a bit, soon it would fell to the floor with a big noise and everyone would come running. Noila took a step inside and saw Sesu near Thognar's bag packs.
"What are you doing?" she asked with a firm voice and hands at her hips. Sesu jumped and almost hanged in the sealing.
"Don't scare me like that!" he cried out with a low voice. "What are you doing here?" he asked.
"I asked you first" she said with her firm voice, reminding him of his mother.
"Not so loud" Sesu whispered and closed the door behind her. He looked at her and realised he couldn't tell her anything else but the truth. "Uncle is leaving soon" he said.
"I know, why are you going through his bag packs then?"
"Because I'm going with him" Sesu said firmly and went back to the bag packs, looking for a space he could fit into.
"What? You can't do that!" she said.
"Yes I can" Sesu said as stubborn as his father, "I wanna see Northernd, and I wanna go with uncle to find Great Father Winter"
"That is just silly. Great Father Winter is a myth, he doesn't exist" Noila said. Sesu looked at her.
"Yes he does, and I'm going to find him" He jumped into one of the bag packs, ready to hide.
"I'm gonna tell mom" Noila said and was ready to go.
"You are just scared" Sesu said.
"What do you mean?" she looked at him, the bag was big enough to fit him and several other stuff.
"You are just a girl, who doesn't wanna come along, because you are scared. Girly girl"
"I'm not scared" she said.
"Really? Oh that's right, you just don't wanna see anything violent" Sesu looked at her with anger in his eyes.
"That is not true" Noila cried out, "I do dare stuff"
"Shush!" Sesu suddenly said, "Someone is coming" Noila gasped and before she saw it Sesu was down in the back pack. Noila wasn't thinking straight, she ran to the bag pack and jumped into it, and closed it after her.
"What now?" she whispered in the dark to her brother.
"Now you shush" he whispered.