CHAPTER FIVE
Crack.
The head of the axe came down hard on the wooden block, perfectly slicing the log into two chunks. The pieces fell off either side of the chopping block, landing in the soft white pillow of snow covering the ground. Corsair leant down to pick them up. He threw the firewood into the basket and placed down a new log, raised his axe up and brought it down again.
Training had been going normally that morning. Corsair had arrived on time and began practice with Alpha Tiberius, alongside his brother, when a soldier rushed forwards and urged the alpha to make his way to the Great Hall of Wolves. Both the alpha and his father left, ordering the brothers to prepare firewood in the meantime. Ragnar kindly volunteered to scour the woods at the back of the house while Corsair to
