He watches the ravens the physical soot colored manifestations of his own mind are more and more a thing unto themselves. He watches the wolves, Geri and Freki still hungry still greedy and they are more and more a thing they were never meant to be. He watches the Watchman, the white god with the still too dark hair.
He watches them all come together. The ravens, the wolves and the Keeper of the Bridge and the All-Father knows they remain with him because they have to. Because old habits die hard and even in the land of the free where monotheism and the Christian God reign supreme old ties still bind, old ways survive in the fading dreams of those that once lived them.
He knows that if Heimdall were to walk away the ravens and the wolves would follow him and he'd be left behind to grow old and die a forgotten man.
He watches them all come together. The ravens, the wolves and the Keeper of the Bridge and the All-Father knows they remain with him because they have to. Because old habits die hard and even in the land of the free where monotheism and the Christian God reign supreme old ties still bind, old ways survive in the fading dreams of those that once lived them.
He knows that if Heimdall were to walk away the ravens and the wolves would follow him and he'd be left behind to grow old and die a forgotten man.