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“Burning the dead” Tuttugu pointed towards the far door “He’s building a pyre on the wall”

I tried to sit up and lay back cursing “There’s not enough wood, surely? Why not leave them to freeze?”

“He found the wood store, and he’s been knocking doors off hinges, ripping down shutters”

“But why?” I asked, not sure I wanted an answer

“Because of ill be co from the Bitter Ice,” Ein said “He doesn’t want the bodies raised against us” He didn’t say that his last three brothers lay a in his face told it anyway

“If they’re frozen they won’t be able to” I tried to sit again Sitting is an i away

“Might not freeze in tiu said

“And Snorri doesn’t want anything left to be defiled after” Ein set his whetstone down and adht

Between theed to make my blood run cold That “in ti A corpse would freeze solid overnight

“We’re expectingtroublebefore , and failed

“No ‘we’ about it It’s what Snorri says He says they’re cos about his knee and whimpered in pain

“How does he know?” I alvanized by fear, and succeeded, ribs grating

“Snorri says the dark told him” Ein set his axe down and looked my way “And if he doesn’t end this in the dark, then you’ll have to do it in the light”