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[athelstanthescribe]

Athelstan is sitting outside the hall, working on repairing a net that belongs to one of the old fishermen.

Lagertha doesn't need him just now, and it's something useful to do with his hands while he waits for Ragnar, because surely he'll be back any day now.

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[athelstanthescribe]

" - but then how long must Rollo stay?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"He gets on well with Jarl Borg," Ragnar says, "even though that man is constantly teetering on the brink of dangerous insanity. There's no accounting for taste."

[athelstanthescribe]

That worries him, a little, because he's an observer of people. But Rollo is Ragnar's brother, so he says nothing.

"Perhaps he'll have some success winning him over."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"That's what I'm hoping," Ragnar says. "He might be able to reach the more sensible side of Jarl Borg. If one uses 'sensible' loosely."

Ragnar shrugs. Rollo isn't very sensible himself; perhaps they can connect in not being sensible.

[athelstanthescribe]

"Then may it all end for the best."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"That's what we're doing it for," Ragnar says, bracing himself for the people in this house, and their grief.

[athelstanthescribe]

Athelstan pushes the door open, holding it for him, and they go in.