Stavanger Bay Ever Consuming Fire

As he spoke, Thistle got up and looked for the stinging nettle, which he ignored, certain that she was listening. When she returned, she responded scathingly. If only there were more women like this back home, he might have not rebelled against his father-uncle. He might have just settled down and fostered a family, if she would take him. But alas, most of the women were products of men's society.

He shook his head. "We let our enemies go home. We do not enslave them most of the time." A practice he hated to do. Why not get rid of your enemies so your family could not be harmed in an act of revenge? "In fact, it was considered evil, even though we practiced something similar in the form of serfs, wolves forced to stay on the land of their benefactor until they pay off a debt. Sometimes, for the poor, it would take their whole lives."