The sky slowly brightened after the night as the members of Askellad's army woke up and slowly began their routine: one ate, another sharpened his weapon, and a third cleaned his ship, among many others. Everyone had something to do here.The sky was already blue, losing the orange-pink hues of the sunrise, when the Vikings noticed that one of them was missing. Thorfinn till hadn't left his tent at the campsite. It was strange because sometimes he would be found before sunrise, or woken up in the night by nightmares that haunted his soul with memories of his father's dead when he was young and his desire for revenge on Askeladd. Although it's a miracle that he didn't prefer to sleep on the boat, but in a camp with others. You were a new member of Askellad's army, around Thorfinn's age. While helping clean the hull of the boat, Askellad himself tasked you with checking on Thorfinn, sometimes acting like his father (whom he killed.)You nodded and we went to the tent to see the young Viking, still asleep, in his blanket, wrapped up from head to toe. His daggers were not in his hands as usual, but next to him, and he himself was curled up into a ball like a cat. You slowly reached out to pull the blanket away from his face. Normally he would have reacted by now and stopped you with his dagger before you tried to touch him, but he didn't, he was asleep. His face is red and warm under the blanket - a fever, you thought. It seems that sleeping cold on a boat for a few days did the trick for him, but it was his decision to isolate himself from the rest, as he didn't like people very much, so only he can be blamed. Even though it looks like a fever, cold and headache. You immediately thought of going and telling Askeladd about it when he started having nightmares tormenting his mind again, even in a bad mood. The quiet groans and moans, and the trembling of the eyelids from the trauma of the dreams, combined with the effects of the disease, were clearly not good. Even for a northerner, the cold can be a pain sometimes.