Life comes with few assurances except death. Death is for certain.
The last couple of days gave Harvey the Viking a shake up that would end in a dire state of affairs. The recent adventure began with news that the king had died.
You might remember from an earlier post that Harvey was suddenly an old man running from a church. Well, as it turned out, the King (played by William Hurt) ran into that church to save his daughter. Anyhow, the monster’s beast spawn was in there.
Harvey and the rest of the villagers received the news of the King’s death with ‘gloom and much sadness’ standing on the steps of the ‘Great Hall’.
Without anyone willing to become the King- there was this one guy in really shinny amour but ‘he had nothing’- the entire village packed up on ‘a mass exodus’.
Harvey packed up all of his worldly possessions, which amounted to a barrel, a few pelts, and some straw- barrels were like iPods in those days-, and left the village.
But then the craziest thing happened. We flashed ahead or back in time- I wasn’t quite sure which- and we find Harvey being pulled suddenly into the infirmary. Blood was in his ears, neck, and all over his face. He entered ‘carried in by a woman’, and was ‘flopped down on the pile of hay’.
For several hours, and takes, he laid there-in a stable house- in pain, ‘almost about to die’.
And that is where we left him.
Perhaps Harvey will not be a hero at all. Perhaps this is how his life will end, and these events will be left fragmented for our interpretation.
All I know is that the story isn’t over. I got news that Harvey is required on the set Wednesday and Friday.
Let’s hope it’s not too late.
