"W-What?"
"Tis' true, Elise, you must believe me!" Erika persisted, her hands shook with the effort to not burst into tears before the story was finished.
She needed to let it all out in the open, she had no doubts about Elise being a good person but nobody would believe her when all the fingers pointed at her. For she was woman.
"I'm listening." Elise rocked the baby and soothed her while she came to grips with what Erika had just told her.
Threaten to kill Thorkel? Oh, why, Erika? Why didn't you let him do it? We'd all be in much peace right now.
She didn't feel a ounce of guilt about her thoughts.
Erika looked as if she was reliving the past, her face was taut with tension, her eyebrows wrinkled and eyes shimmered.
"Um....It was ah, a bad time for Thorkel, all the jarls were a
