#flukt

FLUKT // ESCAPE [ 2012 ]

“I never told you how I found Cait, did I? She was a ragged little thing, curled between the briars. Bruised and battered, in all those places where her step-mother had beaten her.”

Endre clenched his fist, almost absent-mindedly.

“I was running with a group of bandits then, led by a woman by the name of Geirlaug. I brought her to them, so angry I was, not truly thinking of what I was doing. Bringing a young and vulnerable girl into a bristling mass of armed men, with their weapons and their voracious appetites. I thought only to aid her, to offer her safe haven from her step-mother and the villagers they would surely send to find her.”

“She...” Endre paused, and though his eyes remained dry, there was a weariness that furrowed his brow, a depthless sorrow weighting his face, and Skadi realized then that she’d underestimated how old he truly was. He cleared his throat, and went on.

“She reminded me of someone I loved very much, a long time ago. Someone who is long since lost to me. Lost to me and my wife both.”

Endre ran a shaking hand over his face. “And I wanted to make up for the mistakes I’ve made in the past. I wanted to... protect her.”

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Escape (2012)

My rating: 4/10