"Now," Ragnar says. "I never met him again, after that. He must know where to find me, but he never did. So all we can do for him, we do now while we can."

Pause.

"I have met him today as well, and realised who he was; he is very striking and unique, even with twenty years in-between. But I would not..."

Beat.

"A small sweet Saxon is much more easy to trust, and open up to, for one as downcast as he is still. We are the ones to set him on the path to the pride and self-assurance so he will wander the world and set us on our path!"