His face was dripping in blood. It looked like he was smiling eat to ear, for his indented smile was filled in with blood making it look like a really...large smile. His hair was matted down to each side of his head. "You didn't scream?" the throaty deep voice asked sounding fasinated,"I hated them, I want to thank you." she said with a growing smile as she slowly took the covers from her body. "Happy to help." he said slowly tilting his head to the side, "Who are you?" she asked,"I'm just the. He wouldn’t need much but there were some things he thought of after talking to the people during supper. Hobart even suggested a few things to make Josh’s life a little more comfortable along the way. He told Josh that he wouldn’t have to worry about weight with the wagon train like he did traveling by horse. He makes sense Josh thought, this opens up some possibilities I never figured on. Josh went to the general store and purchased a few items that he might have trouble finding on the trail. Now Leif was offering the chance of a real voyage, I leapt at it like a returning salmon. I was young, had no family and yearned for the adventure of it.From the first, Leif asked his famous father to be our leader. Erik pleaded his years weighed too heavy on him but Leif silvertongue talked him round. Now, as some of you know, the knarr is a trading ship with a high freeboard and fixed mast. It needs fewer men than a drakkr and has fewer oars. We only row a knarr in and out of port. Nigh on. Wilkinson asked are they are your slaves?I told him no, they are nobodies slaves.Mr. Wilkinson said but they called you Master.My reply to him was curt they chose to serve me of their own free will, that is much different than slavery. Slavery leaves no room for choice. They trust and respect me and allow me to take care of them. It’s as simple as that, so get those stupid ideas out of that mind of yours. Am I clear?He said yes Jerome. He used my first name I knew at that time, he wasn’t smart.