Lone Wolf of the Freljord

"I seem to know why she's been angry all the time." Lothar thought.

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Bluefin is a fish that is often found on the Freljord table, with its sweet and succulent meat, and a variety of recipes. In winter, they breed in the midwest of the Freljord's northern ice ocean. At this time, the bluefin is the largest and extremely delicious. Whether it is grilled or stewed, it is an excellent top grade.

—Excerpt from Ezreal's "Valloran's Travels: The Freljord Chapter 8: Food in the Snow"

Chapter 22 Night Talk

Night falls.

Sejuani dumped the leftover fish bones into the sea, and the ashes that had been burned by the firewood were carefully collected and put into her bag.

Ashe looked at Sejuani's movements curiously: "What do you want ashes?"

Sejuani was about to explain, but she heard Lothar interject: "Do not wet the remaining ashes of wood, it has many functions, such as repelling insects, stopping bleeding, making spices, and some shamans even use it as medicine."

Sejuani glared at Lothar in disgust: "Who told you to show off your poor knowledge!"

Lothar stuck her tongue out, not arguing with Sejuani.

Ashe kept staring at Yu Hui, thinking that there are still many things in this world that she doesn't know.

"Where did he learn it?" Ashe always felt that Lothar seemed to know a lot of things, but no one in the tribe had ever taught him. "If you have a chance, you must ask him."

Seeing that Lothar didn't want to quarrel with herself, Sejuani felt that she had nowhere to vent. If Ashe wasn't by her side, she might have beaten her directly.

"Sleep!" Sejuani took out two sets of animal skin sleeping bags from the cabin and stuffed one for Ashe.

"What about mine?" asked Lothar.

"Only two sets!" Sejuani dropped a word, put herself in the sleeping bag, and lay down on the bow, keeping the furthest distance from Lothar.

Ashe handed the sleeping bag to Lothar: "You can use it, I am of the bloodline of ice and I am not afraid of cold."

"Forget it, I'll just sleep with my clothes on." Lothar returned the sleeping bag to Ashe.

"No!" Ashe forcibly handed the sleeping bag to Lothar, "Your injuries are not yet healed, what if you get sick again, do you want me to worry more?"

Lothar glanced at the sleeping bag in his hand: "Thank you."

"What else did you and I say thank you?" Ashe stroked Lothar's messy black hair and kissed the corner of his mouth gently, "Have a good rest, Sejuani and I will sleep together."

"Why don't you cuddle with me?" Lothar smiled slyly.

Ashe pinched Lothar's face hard, and pinched Lothar until he cried out, "You little pervert, when are you still thinking about this kind of thing, haven't I slept with you every day these days? "

Lothar rubbed his face aggrieved: "I see, you can go to sleep."

"OK, good night."

Seeing Lothar lying down, Ashe walked back to the bow and found Sejuani staring straight at her.

"What's wrong"

"It's nothing." Sejuani lay back, propping up the animal skin sleeping bag, "Come in."

"Thank you." Ashe got into the sleeping bag tightly against Sejuani, "Won't it burst?"

"Winter's Claw is made by the best leatherworkers, don't worry," Sejuani replied.

Ashe changed his posture and found out how uncomfortable it was to sleep, and said a little embarrassedly: "Can I hold you to sleep?"

"certainly."

Ashe put her arms around Sejuani's shoulders and found that the girl she was holding was stronger than she looked.

"Good night," Ash said, closing her eyes.

After a while, Ashe noticed that it was Sejuani whispering in her ear itching.

"Are you still awake"

Ashe opened her eyes, Sejuani's beautiful blue eyes were looking at her, and the moonlight poured into her pupils, shining brightly.

"What's wrong?" Ash asked quietly.

"You and..." Sejuani hesitated, "what's your relationship with that wolf cub?"

Ashe didn't expect Sejuani to ask this question, her face was a little hot: "Can't you see that Lothar he...is my chosen future blood alliance."

Hearing this answer from Ashe with her own ears, Sejuani felt her chest tighten, and nameless fire rose from her eyes: "You're crazy! He's a warm-blooded person! He's still a cripple!"

"But he protected me with his life." Ashe had a warm smile on his face, "He is the boy who cares about me the most in the world. If I don't choose him, who else should I choose?"

Sejuani was dumbfounded.

After a long time, Sejuani said coldly, "Are you sure you want to choose him? Do you know that your children are likely not to be Iceborn?"

Ashe blinked, Moonlight and Lu Xue wet her silver-white eyelashes: "I don't care if it's Frozen Bloodline or Furnace, for me, as long as it's the one I love, it's the same."

Sejuani patted Ashe's face angrily: "Your brain must have been frozen by Zhen Bing."

Ashe shook his head amusingly: "Don't talk about me, do you have a favorite boy?"

Sejuani curled her lips in disdain: "There are quite a few boys of the Frost bloodline in my tribe, but none of them are eye-catching."

"No, no one at all?"

"No, it's all a bunch of idiots. This time I went hunting. There were originally many boys who wanted to come with me to please me, but when they knew that I was going to the Bearman Hunting Ground, they all persuaded them." Sejuani With a look of hating iron and not steel, "Just like them, the future of Winter's Claw is over."

"They haven't grown up yet. When they grow up and take up the True Ice weapon, they should become brave." Ashe comforted.

"Hopefully." Sejuani sighed and looked at Ashe again, "You really have to choose that crippled wolf cub"

"real."

"No regrets"

"why regret"

"Mad," Sejuani said, turning her back on Ashe.

Ash hugged Sejuani's back: "Thank you for caring about my future, but this is my choice, and I will accept all my fate with my head held high."

Sejuani didn't answer.

Ashe buried her head in Sejuani's back and fell asleep.

…

"Look, this is where my tribe temporarily lives." Sejuani stood on the bow, pointing to the firelight on the coast.

"Are you there?" Ashe raised her head from Lothar's shoulder and looked sleepily in the direction Sejuani was pointing.

"It's coming soon, you can sleep for a while." Lothar kissed Ashe's smooth forehead lightly.

"Um..." Ashe obediently put her head back on Lothar's shoulder and fell asleep.

Lothar felt a icy gaze, looked up, and Sejuani looked at him badly.

"Let her sleep a little longer, Ashe hasn't rested for many days." Lothar whispered, "In order to take care of my wounded."

Ashe hadn't had a good night's sleep since Lothar was injured. Even sleeping with Lothar was only a light sleep, to guard against the dangers that might come at night.

Ashe thought that Lothar didn't notice it, but in fact Lothar has always seen everything in his eyes.

I was finally able to sleep peacefully on the boat. Ashe’s accumulated fatigue for many days suddenly broke out, and she slept from the night before until the next afternoon without waking up.

After listening to Lothar's explanation, Sejuani snorted, said nothing, and stopped looking at Lothar.

Lothar vaguely heard Sejuani's voice, combined with the lips he saw, Lothar easily guessed what Sejuani said.

"waste."

Don't even think about it, this is what he said. ——————————————————

The appearance of the ice bloodline is relatively random. Usually, the children born by a couple of the ice bloodline have a high probability of being also of the ice bloodline, but there are also examples of ordinary people. If there is only one person in the husband and wife of the Frost bloodline, then the child born will most likely not be of the Frost Bloodline, and it is almost impossible for a pair of ordinary people to have the Frost Bloodline. Therefore, in the Freljord tribe with the Frost bloodline, the intermarriage of the Frost bloodline is often relatively fixed, and basically they will choose the spouse of the same Frost bloodline, regardless of whether there is a basis for love.

—Excerpt from Ezreal's Travels of Valoran: The Freljord Chapter 1: The Structure of Society

Chapter 23 The Claws of Winter

The port of Winter's Claw was near, and Ashe helped Lothar remove the canvas.

While preparing the thick rope, Sejuani said to Ashe, "The frost priests in my tribe don't like outsiders very much. If they knew that you were Glenna's daughter, they would definitely try their best to get rid of you."

Lothar didn't care that Sejuani ignored him and asked, "What can you do?"

Sejuani patted the thick food reserves around her: "As soon as we land on the shore, we will send out all the food as soon as possible. We want to win the hearts of the priests and my mother, and let everyone in the tribe remember peace. The friendship of the Avarosa people, remembering that Winter's Claw and the Avarosa are sister tribes."

"Does it work?" Ashe folded the canvas.

"It must be useful." Sejuani looked at Ashe, "Remember the lies I taught you to tell, and don't say anything else that shouldn't be said, it will be fine."

The port was getting closer, and a large crowd was piling up, apparently waiting for them.

"Welcome to Winter's Claw." Sejuani took a deep breath. "I'll make you all right, Ashe."

Lothar gave a wry smile, it seemed that Sejuani really didn't care about his life at all.

The boat finally approached the port, and Sejuani saw the leader standing on the port.

A war mother, three frost priests.

"Why is your mother waiting on the dock?" Ash asked.

"Die!" Sejuani scolded secretly, turned back and whispered, "The plan has changed, I'll hold them back, you quickly find an opportunity to send out the food."

Ashe and Lothar looked at each other, and it seemed that getting ashore was not that simple.

The boat arrived at the shore, and everyone could faintly hear the whispers of the tribal civilians on the shore.

"Sejuani brought two strangers..."

"Who are they..."

"I can't see... Do they have anything to eat..."

Sejuani jumped ashore and tied the boat to a stake with a thick rope.

Winter's Claw's War Mother is tall and wears a horned helmet, and looks a bit like Sejuani. She held a long-handled wide blade similar to Sejuani's style, and looked at her daughter coldly: "Sejuani, who did you bring to my tribe?"

Sejuani replied coldly: "She helped me hunt a Gruffin, and I brought back fish and wolf seals. She is qualified to stay in the tribe."

Lothar and Ashe worked hard to carry the food onto the pier, trying to give a friendly smile to the people of Winter's Claw.

The three frost priests, all covered in bone decorations and wearing jet-black cloaks, looked at Ashe and Lothar with unpleasant expressions. Ashe, in particular, was under scrutiny. Ashe felt that the eyes of the three priests seemed to penetrate her.

"Warmother Kojiya," said a frost priest in the lead, "We shouldn't trust these two... these two outsiders."

Koujia frowned and glanced at Ashe and Lothar, and pointed the wide blade at the two: "My tribe will only provide shelter to honest people, and those who are scheming will not enter. Tell me, who are you, and what are you from? Where did you find the prey?"

Ashe's heart beat faster, and she recalled what Sejuani had told her beforehand on the boat.

The Frost Priests and the Losers had signed an ancient pact of non-aggression, and the Bears were given vast hunting grounds in which all tribes could not hunt, on the condition that the Bears would not attack any of the tribes.

If the frost priests of Winter's Claw knew that the Gruffin serpent they were hunting came from the werebear's hunting ground, Ashe and Lothar would have been thrown out of Winter's Claw by them, even Sejuani, as The mother of war, Kojiya, could not keep her.

But the trouble is, the Frost Priest has the ability to see through lies.

"I'm Ashe, from Avarosa." Ashe tried her best to be magnanimous.

"I'm Lothar, her lover." Lothar said calmly.

Ashe's cheeks flushed, and she glanced at Lothar with some resentment, but when he said this, Ashe was relieved a lot.

The eyes of the three frost priests hidden in the shadow of their crowns were as sharp as swords, observing any unnaturalness in the two of them.

Koujia saw that Ashe was of the ice bloodline, and the longbow she was carrying was obviously a real ice weapon, so she ignored Lothar, who was a warm-blooded person: "Little girl, tell me, you Where did the prey come from?”

Ashe swallowed, seeing the encouraging gazes of Sejuani and Lothar, her pounding heart gradually calmed down.

"We hunted Gruffin at sea." Ashe looked at Koujia calmly, "Gruffin attacked Lothar's ship and me, and it was Sejuani who saved us."

"Sejuani will never save me." Lothar listened to the lie Sejuani had made up for Ashe, and couldn't help but murmur.

"This outsider is lying." A frost priest said coldly.

Ashe's heart rose to her throat.

Sejuani quickly stood up and stood in front of her mother aggressively: "Ashe is very brave, we killed this Gruffin together, and this hunter should be half of her!"

"It's not your turn to decide how we distribute the food, daughter." Kojiya looked down at Sejuani with a stern tone.

"Without me out hunting this time, there would be no food, mother." Sejuani faced Kojiya without fear, not giving an inch.

Koujia glanced at the food on the boat, and there was indeed a lot of food.