Yuletide Welcome
Open starter | Hugsi & Muninn |
The Great Hall was warm from blazing hearth currently roasting meat, and the people were hanging wreaths made of evergreen branches and berries, and a bunch of mistletoe. There were candles lined up from end to end of the long table in the center of the hall. This, too, was decorated with fir branches and holly. It was, however, neglect of food for the time being, though there was a large wooden barrel of mead beside the entrance.
Snow had been tracked in through the large wooden doors, and Muninn was talking in the corner with a group of villagers, their black feathery cloak draped over their shoulders.
The 14 year old Hugsi sat upon Muninn's throne, watching rather than helping. He quite enjoyed the festivities they were currently preparing for, but he was becoming the age in which he felt too old for childish joy, but Muninn insisted he was still too young for a great many other things. In times like these, he longed for a visit from his father, and had secretly made a sacrifice last week to pray for one. Muninn was always rather insistent that his father wasn't needed, and knew exactly where to find them should he choose to look. Hugsi knew they were right, of course. They'd done well without him, but it didn't hurt to request his presence for such an important feast anyway.
He was, perhaps, just a little bitter that they would be receiving guests, but it was most unlikely that his father would turn up.
Muninn had tasked him with decorating the tree, though he mostly refused. He'd hung a single straw decoration that he had crafted, then made his way over to the barrel, drinking horn in hand. He scooped out a full horn of mead and took a drink.
The visitors were expected any day now, so that they were settled in in time for the Solstice. Certainly, nobody wanted to be caught outside during the Wild Hunt! All except Hugsi, of course, who had decided that father couldn't ignore his existence then. But Muninn would notice and be angry. Perhaps with enough mead, he would be in better spirits to receive visitors.

















