[She pauses again, lifting a shoulder in a half shrug as she tries to find the words to describe it properly. She might have spent centuries with English, but it still isn't her native tongue, and sometimes, especially talking about how things used to be, she struggles.]
We had some choice in who led us. If we didn't like them, they could be killed, replaced, so they had to be strong and well liked. But if things under them were bad, crops and wars and famine, sometimes we'd sacrifice them to Odin, to end the bad luck that came with their rule.
[Most people would call it barbaric, would call it murder, and she knows that. But it was done, and with people she trust, she won't lie about it or cover it up to make it seem nicer than it was.]
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[She pauses again, lifting a shoulder in a half shrug as she tries to find the words to describe it properly. She might have spent centuries with English, but it still isn't her native tongue, and sometimes, especially talking about how things used to be, she struggles.]
We had some choice in who led us. If we didn't like them, they could be killed, replaced, so they had to be strong and well liked. But if things under them were bad, crops and wars and famine, sometimes we'd sacrifice them to Odin, to end the bad luck that came with their rule.
[Most people would call it barbaric, would call it murder, and she knows that. But it was done, and with people she trust, she won't lie about it or cover it up to make it seem nicer than it was.]