In the top of an icy storm Ainawaldes announced the arrival of winter. Branches and ice crystals whipped down a young woman stumbled through the underbrush. Only a thin linen cloak protected them from the roar of the elements. Long the cold had driven every feeling from her body. 
  She did not know what she was on. What was she to get up again and go even further. Barefoot between thorns and snow. You did not know where it came from. 
  She did not know where she was going. Only on, on, on. 

  The forest hut she saw until she collapsed in front of it. 

  She raised her hand to knock. Weak scratched her stiff fingers over the wood. She wanted to call. But more than a slight "` Aah - A "'did not come from her lips. And yet the door was flung open. 

  A wild figure turned out in fur and leather wrapped against the storm. He might be almost twice as big as them. An untamed mane and beard associated blocked the view of the face with the exception of a couple of small, stinging eyes. 

  "` Who? '"Roared the forest creature out into the roar. But again she brought forth only some thin sounds. The savage looked down. When his eyes fell on her, he attacked them without another word and carried her into the house. Before the woman knew what hit her she was thrown on a couch and wrapped tightly in animal furs. 

  "` Where? '"Only marginally quieter than at the door enough for the Giants, this time a single word. And again she was too weak for a meaningful answer. 

  "` Hey, Togarl, you'd be so kind? '"Came a female voice from the other side of the room. With effort, the young woman turned her head. And wished for a moment out into the cold back. Barely illuminated by the fire lay there on a bed instead of a woman about her age. Nude. Tied spreadeagled to the bed post. 

  The giant, Togarl, tore with one hand one of the leather straps. What they 'acknowledged with an angry "` Ouch ". 

  "` On, Kirimne "'said Togarl it. A few alarm bells would ring out in the head of the new arrivals. But far too weak to reach their supercooled awareness. 

  Without another word, he grabbed an ax and a spear, and disappeared out the door into the raging fury. The formerly bound man had meanwhile 
  completely freed. While they ansetzte a herb over the fire she said, 


  "` Sorry if I scared you. We did not expect this time to visit. Togarl and I "'. Kirimne put his head to her patient her bare chest, stroking her like a child's hair and humming a simple tune. 

  She came to the second verse of her eyelid to the end, when she lay her head back and filled a cup with the herb. "'Drink this. Then you'll sleep soundly and tomorrow you're back fresh and strong."' 

  But the stranger was too weak to reach for the drink. Now that the heat returned and how glowing needles pricked in their members. so put 
  Kirimne it on, she leaned against himself, laid his head between her breasts and brought the cup to his mouth. 

  ".` Not so fast, little sips. - You know, Togarl and I, we like it not to be interrupted while "'she said in a cheerful 
  Conversational tone. "` But the winter has just begun. You can not get out of here. You have plenty of time, to make amends. "'
  Lost in thought, she slipped her free hand under the fur blanket. There, she weighed a gentle breast of others. Played with the still cold nipples. 

  "` Oh yes. A lot of time. "'