Birna

The Sarl huntress Birna is described as having the lean, supple and sinuous figure that drove men mad on long sea voyages, filling their minds with vice too long denied. Yet Birna is no simple freeholder or farm wench, no meek villager content to bask in the glory of whatever champion warmed her bed. If one can ignore the curve of her shape, the slope of her thighs and fullness of her breasts, one would notice the grey slashes of old scars and the puckered residue of old wounds. No, Birna is akin to a shield maiden of the old sagas, a woman who seizes her own glories with her own hands.

With long platinum-hair and dark eyes, her most striking feature is that of her tongue. Since birth, she had been marked by the gods with a tongue as black as a crow's feather, was long, thin and fluted like a bird's, from which she can give a trilling note that creatures of the sky can understand, and be understood. Such was the case when she called upon a murder of crows to torment a Beastlord that had taken her captive, allowing Einarr Steelfist to strike the killing blow and free her from the sacrificial pyre.

Source

 * : Palace of the Plague Lord (novel) by C.L. Werner
 * : Chapter 7
 * : Chapter 8

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