Table of Contents
NOTICES
CONTENT WARNINGS
BERSERKER GOD
Stone Sky God Name Pronunciation Guide
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE | Suvi
CHAPTER TWO | Skallagrim
CHAPTER THREE | Skallagrim
CHAPTER FOUR | Suvi
CHAPTER FIVE | Skallagrim
CHAPTER SIX | Suvi
CHAPTER SEVEN | Skallagrim
CHAPTER EIGHT | Suvi
CHAPTER NINE | Suvi
CHAPTER TEN | Skallagrim
CHAPTER ELEVEN | Suvi
CHAPTER TWELVE | Skallagrim
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | Suvi
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | Skallagrim
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | Skallagrim
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | Skallagrim
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | Skallagrim
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN | Skallagrim
CHAPTER NINETEEN | Suvi
CHAPTER TWENTY | Skallagrim
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE | Suvi
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO | Skallagrim
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE | Suvi
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR | Suvi
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE | Skallagrim
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX | Skallagrim
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN | Suvi
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT | Skallagrim
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE | Suvi
CHAPTER THIRTY | Suvi
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE | Skallagrim
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO | Suvi
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE | Skallagrim
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR | Suvi
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE | Skallagrim
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX | Suvi
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN | Skallagrim
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT | Suvi
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE | Suvi
CHAPTER FORTY | Suvi
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE | Skallagrim
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO | Suvi
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE | Skallagrim
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR | Suvi
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE | Suvi
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX | Suvi
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN | Skallagrim
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT | Suvi
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE | Suvi
CHAPTER FIFTY | Suvi
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE | Suvi
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO | Skallagrim
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE | Suvi
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR | Skallagrim
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE | Skallagrim
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX | Suvi
CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN | Suvi
CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT | Suvi
CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE | Suvi
CHAPTER SIXTY | Skalla
CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE | Suvi
CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO | Skallagrim
NOTICES
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CONTENT WARNINGS
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BERSERKER GOD
Brides of the Stone Sky Gods
Book Two
By Ursa Dax
Stone Sky God Name Pronunciation Guide
Skallagrim – SKAH-la-grim
Jolakaia – joe-la-KAI-ah
Koltar – COAL-tar
Koraba – koe-RAH-bah
Wylfrael – WOLF-rye-elle
Sionnach – SIGH-on-nock
Maerwynne – MARE-win-nuh
Rúnwebbe – rune-WEB-buh
Sceadulyr – shay-AH-doo-leer
Cynewylf – KOO-nuh-wolf
Heofonraed – hay-OFF-enn-rad
Vizhiri – viz-JHEER-ee
PROLOGUE
The stone sky god Skallagrim always thought he’d have more time. An affliction of immortals. Or perhaps just an affliction of a certain sort of male. The penchant to look fate in its relentless eyes, scoff, and simply tell the inevitable that it will have to come collect its due another day.
But even a god cannot push off fate forever. And even an immortal cannot escape the burning end when it comes calling.
I always thought I’d have more time. That was what Skalla said to himself when he felt his mind begin to blacken at the edges. They were the last words left in his skull before language began to dissipate like fog around him, inside him, until there were no words left but the broken echoes of what had once made sense.
I always thought I’d have more time.
Time to find her. The one mortal creature in the whole shuddering scope of the universe who could have saved him.
And saved everyone else.
When Skallagrim felt his mind start unspooling, when the mate madness first took hold, he went to the one immortal he could fully trust. The one stone sky god who knew him deeply, who loved him, and was, he believed, strong enough to subdue him. He went to Sionnach, his cousin Wylfrael’s world.
But Wylfrael was no match for Skalla in his rampage. Skalla’s berserker blood, inherited from his Bohnebregg mother, was an accelerant to the flame of mate madness. He became something formidable and terrible and not at all himself.
Wylfrael was defeated twice, evaded endlessly, until there was nothing and no one left to halt Skalla’s cosmic riptide of rage.
No one...
No one except the one small, singular, mortal creature he should have been searching for all along.
His fated bride.
His salvation...
Or his undoing.
CHAPTER ONE
Suvi
Marta, Min-Ji, and I were in one of the caves of the new planet when the ship’s alarm system began to blare.
“Another one?” Marta said, frowning and pushing up her safety glasses until they formed a headband for her kinky, dark curls. “We already had one this morning.”
After what had happened to Torrance and the other soldiers on the last planet, we’d started running drills in this new world. Practice runs for if something like that ever happened again. If the sky turned to stone and some winged creature, brutal and alien and powerful beyond comprehension, came through, obliterating everything in its path. Whenever the ship’s alarm system went off, we were to return to it as quickly as possible.
And if we weren’t fast enough...
We’d get left behind.
Just like Torrance was.
That was three weeks ago. Three weeks since we last saw our friend in the ice and snow of the alien world we were all taken to against our will. Three weeks since the sky cracked open like it was made of earth instead of air. Three weeks since we retreated to this new planet, leaving her to die in the snow.
“Let’s go,” Min-Ji said, standing and brushing blue dust from the seat of her grey uniform’s pants. Unlike that last planet we were hauled off to, this one wasn’t plunged into the depths of snowy winter. The air here was dry and warm, no winter coats or snowpants required.
The lack of puffy clothing and snow made our steps quick as we trekked back out of the cave. We left all our stuff behind, as instructed for these drills, abandoning our tools and the little glowing samples of odd, bark-like fungi that grew in the caves of this world.
