98

Nerthus

“Why don’t you take your brother as well? We will just not give him any candy.” I ask him, and he rolls his eyes.

“No way. He is a total pain and such a crybaby. All a mama’s boy. Ugh, I was closer to my dad. Just like Arawn was.” He smiles proudly, and I squint at Arawn as he scoffs.

“Danny…” Arawn warns, putting out his cigarette.

Danny sways his head from side to side. “We have many things in common. Both our fathers came from Wales.”

“Oh, wow!” I say, listening as he continues to explain something geographically to me that I don’t quite understand.

“But I can talk Welsh, but he never learned.” He turns to me, leaning in while lowering his voice as if he were to tell me a secret. “But it isn’t his fault. He did take him in too late.”

“Danny!” Arawn barks, making us flinch, and I fear that even the fisherman sitting on the rails next to us was about to fall into the water because of the scare.

Danny starts talking what could be gibberish from what I know as I don’t understan