Come spring, they were surprised to find that their first visitors were not Calsar's soldiers.

" I have come from the town to the east, begging coven's assistance," a man said, bowing before them. " Calsar's demands of us have become unreasonable. His men have eaten through all our grain, and are now taking livestock from private homes without permission. We have heard you resist them with the help of your god. Can you not help us repel them back to whence they came?"

" It is a dangerous road which you take," Yrnhold said. " Let us go discuss matters with my son, who is to be the next coven."

The man and his escort had brought them a pair of sheep as tribute to Sif, so Sif had no trouble with them.

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