painting-Sithric Leifsson

Sofie had gotten up very early today to work on one of her many pranks she had planed. Today she needed to be up before everyone if she was going to be able to pull it off. Sithric, the other shipbuilder had been working on a boat for so long, and she had come up with he perfect idea.An idea that if she did it to Freyja her sister would kill her, but she was pretty sure Sithric would only get mad. Well at least she hoped her would only get mad and not kill her, but she was sure she was going to find out just how he was going to reach when he saw what she did. She was going to prank him by painting a tiny little flowers all over both sides of it. Making it super pretty and girly. She had been saving some of her money to the side and bought all kinds of fruit to make colors to do it with. So far she had finished one side, and was now woking on the other. Sofie's hand was getting so tired and sore but it was all going to be worth it when he came down to keep working on the ship. The best part is that when it got wet most of it was going to wash off, but Sithric wasn't going to know that right away. He was going to think what she had done was there forever. However Sofie wasn't that cruel.

She had just finished her handy work as more and more people started to come onto the docks. Some were giving her weird looks, others were laughing as they walked by and saw what it is she had done. It made her smile ever more at her prank hearing the other people around her reactions. She was glad her sister wasn't down here yet, or Freyja would be yelling at her and making her wash it off before he ever got to see it. Her hands were hurting so much too, that she was going to have to skip her training. But every inch of the ship had all kinds of different flowers in as many color's as she could get to work all over it. So the pain was defiantly worth it."I can't wait to see his face" she hears form somewhere behind her and she turns and says "I know" back to them. Just as she was getting ready to turn back around to look at her work more she sees him.Sithric Leifsson, coming her way. She didn't have any time to hide away from him now. So she took a deep breath and crossed her arms over her chest. Smiling at him as he got close."Good morning Sithric" she told him as he stopped in front of his boat. "Do you like it, I made it pretty for you!" she said with a smile as she watched him looking it over.

Sofie watched him as he looked around the boat. She could see the anger growing in his eyes as she look in her handy work, it made her let out a few laughs here and there. She had spend hours on this, and so far it seemed to be all worth it as she could see he was very unhappy. Of course he had know idea that everything would wash right off with water or when it rained. His face clearly showed that he thought it was there forever when he turned around and looked at her. ‘You better clean it up, and fast. Or you will suffer the consequences.’ He said, and she could hear the angry in his voice, and see it in his eyes. Okay so he was a little more mad then she thought he was going to be that was for sure. However she wanted to yell right at him too. How dare he talk to her like that. Joke or not. He looked like he could hit her, and Sofie was tempted to tell him to try. "What you don't like it?" she said to him instead. Not making a move from the spot she was standing on. "I worked on it so long and hard for you Sithric. I thought you would be so happy. I wanted to make it pretty, like me" she said next before bitting her lip and giving a little pout.

She then shook her head at him."I'm not going to wash off all my hard work!" she said as she crossed her arms. ‘Halfdan is gonna kill me if I present this boat to him and you right after I assume.’ Sithric said next and that however got her to change her mind a bit."Oh don't get your pants in a twist. It will all wash right off in the water or after a good rain." she said as she uncrossed her arms and waked over to the boat. Reaching down she grabbed a little water and rubbed it on one of the many flowers. It came right off without any problem."So no one is going to die." she said with a roll of her eyes at him. Did he really think she was going to ruin a boat for real? She wasn't stupid, she had just wanted to get a good laugh out of it all. She had gotten some laughs but not enough to justify all the work she spent on the thing."So get some water on it, and it will all go away!" she told him before laughing again.

Sofie rolls her eyes at him when she hears him say ‘You will be lucky if I don’t tell your mother about this.’ he said to her and she huffed out at him. Like her mother didn't know what she did everyday, and like telling her really was going to do anything at all to Sofie. A boat doesn’t need to be pretty, it needs to be strong, strong like you are. Just without the flowers.’ He says to her next and Sofie smiles at him. He thought she was strong, that was a nice compliment. She watched as he smiled, but could tell he was still mad at her for doing this to him in the first place."Tell my mother, I don't care. She knows I play pranks." she says to him first. "And I am beautiful and strong, maybe I want to ride in a boat that is like that too. Because you did build it strong, I can tell." she says too him next. It was true, he did make very good boats, almost as good the ones her sister made, almost being the key words. Freyja is always going to be better in her eyes.

When Sofie told him she wasn't going to wash off her hard work he said ‘Oh yes you will!’ to her and she rolled her eyes at him."Are you going to make me do it then? I would like to see you try."Sofie told him with an air of sass to her. She was going to help him clean it off, but she didn't want to do it all. She was already tired as it was. ‘Jokes over now.’ he told her next after she showed him it all could be washed off with a little bit of water. That he got all worked up for nothing at all and he was being so silly. ‘Either you are going to wash it all off, or I will throw you in the water. And don’t think I don’t mean what I say Sofie. I’m dead serious.’ he tells her next and now she really doesn't want to help him. "Well I don't know how to swim, so if you want to kill me over this I guess you really are mad." she says crossing her arms over her chest. "I'll help you clean it off, but I'm not doing it alone." she says next with a now raised eyebrow.