“I think I need to follow him to learn more about who he is and what he is up to,” Eric told her wife.
“You need to be very careful because if he messed with my mind he could mess with yours,” Carna responded.
“I will keep out of his sight until I am ready to strike but we have to learn more about him because he is the likely cause of my transformation and the manipulation of your mind. We need to find if he is the source of our problems or if he works for someone else. I will be very careful.”
“If you must follow this path I will support you but do you even know your limits in this new form? You are smaller and likely weaker than me, do you even know how much your mind have been affected by this change to your body? I have never seen you cry as much in our entire time together as you have cried in these last few hours. What other changes have occurred, have you lost your fighting skills, have you lost your abilities to track? I worry you are depending too much on things you can no longer depend upon.”
Eric could understand her worries but if she gave into all of the fears she had about what was going on she might never go after the man who had done this. Without the spirit of the Wolverine inside of her, the fear seemed overwhelming to her at times. She needed to prove that she hadn’t just been the spirit all of these years that the good that had been done was her as well. There was a real fear that if she waited for too long she would never be able to overcome the fear.
“Thank you for your concern. I need to do this so if you could gather some clothing that you think would fit me I will look over the weapons for some to take with me,” Eric set about getting ready for the journey.
Seeing that her husband was determined Carna set about fulfilling the request but the worry and concern never left her eyes. Some passable leather armor was given to Eric and some furs to keep warm against the chills in the air. Eric placed on the gear and took some hand axes as well as a couple of daggers.
“I need you to come up with a name for me to take on this journey,” Eric requested. “Bless me with a title for this quest.”
Tears welled in her eyes, “Take the name Bellona as your name so she might watch over you in the world of civilized if that is where you must go because you need no assistance in these lands as the Wolverine watches over you still.”
She gave a powerful embrace the husband that she loved which Bellona returned with just as much passion.
“I will make an offering to the goddess when I have returned to you in all ways your husband,” Bellona promised.
