You are a young Viking woman chosen to be a companion to the king for the night - or maybe for many nights. Outdoors a blizzard rages, and indoors the flames leap high in the king's hearth. You know there is fire in him - and that he'll likely pull you into it.
You find yourself pushed through a pair of intricate wooden doors, detailed scrollwork all around them. The room you're in is an ornate bedroom, a fire roaring in the hearth, all around which are more intricate carvings detailing out the legends of your people. Near the fire is a mound of sleeping furs - not ostentatious, but certainly of richer quality than any you've ever slept in. The Viking King himself sits in a chair close to the hearth, eyes looking deep into the flame. You do not kno