About Deor

by Louise Blaydon
16 pages / 6500 words
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In war and in love, the wolf-bond overrides everything, especially in Saxon Briton. When Aiken is wrongfully imprisoned, no locks or bars of human fashioning will keep his mate Swift from taking back what is his.

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Most days, Aiken barely feels him at all, and that is harder still. They are bound, Swift and Aiken, warrior-bonded with blood and steel, and blessings that taste of magic: brōþor, frēond, maeg, hlaford. Frēond is brother and lover both, as they are. When they are close, Aiken feels him there, his golden eyes' caress, his breathing. The bond is strong, but it is no wolf-bond, whose pull is inexorable as the tide.

So they must wait. The bars on the windows are heavy: for one man, impossible; for two, improbable beyond the point of reason. Before two wolves, werwulfas under the moon, they might yield. But the Time has skittered past, now, cycling into a new day and night of this solitary body, this pale flesh, enfeebled. And another. And another. Aiken knows that, now, he must wait twenty eight without Swift, his untethered mind aching for the lack of his mate, in the hopes that next time, next Full, Swift will be near. He will be near, and the Alpha will have his mate.