This year, spring seemed to be taking much longer than usual to arrive. Fights broke out between the bored men.
“What do you mean, I’m like a woman?” The man stood, fists raised, ready for a fight. “You know that’s not true. Didn’t I rescue you on that last raid?”
The other man laughed. “You are so easy to annoy, Grimm.”
Grimm pulled back his arm and punched. The other man fell back with a resounding thud and lay there on the ground. Grimm rubbed his fist and walked away muttering, “That’ll teach him to call me a coward.”
A few hours later, a group of men were placing bets on a dice game they were playing.
One of the men surged to his feet. “You’re cheating, Halli, I swear. You’ve won far too many times.”
Halli shrugged. “I’m just a lucky man.”
“No one’s that lucky.”
Halli drew a k
