Ankyra Sound boneless

@Caiaphas yes please & ooh yes, i'd love another thread. <3 also, since Kjalarr is what she knows him by/what he'll introduce himself as to saltwinter i'm going to go ahead and ask for a name change

The brunt of his family's sure to be anger at this decision would be a heavy thing to bear, but he did not see how they could truly hold this against him. He wasn't saying goodbye forever, and even if he was, currently, he wasn't so sure any of them would care. He needed room to grow the way his fate dictated that he did and Moonspear had never truly felt like home to him. It held people that he knew, wolves that he loved to some foreign extent but his homes had been Stavanger Bay and with the Frostfur's because while Bazi had strange raising techniques they had never blamed him, nor were once  (that he could recall) insulting to him. Maybe his wounded pride made him weak but from what Tevinter had learned of Ragnar from Thistle his father would have never stood for it either. In fact, he hadn't. He'd killed his eldest brother — that was not the big reason but Thistle had never been hesitant about the truth with Tev when he'd asked.

Her approval and acceptance came simple, accompanied by an offer to show him The Grotto. As he crossed over into the borders he felt like he was a snake shedding it's skin: behind him he left Tevinter and he'd taken on Kjalarr; the name his phantom father addressed him as, and as far as the young Loðbrok assumed his destiny. Only briefly did he felt a small pang of guilt but he told himself that he shouldn't feel guilt, and selfish as he was he was able to suffocate the guilt, easily pushing it out of his mind as he followed Caiaphas.