follow the echoes

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She wide eyed stare accompanied by the stillness of her jaw as she chewed at the small strip of venison she had ripped off the part of the carcass he had brought her elicited a coy chuckle from Ragnar as he explained to her just how crazy the hormonal scent that the female body secreted in their heat cycle made men. “You have no idea the restraint I had to endure until you let me have you,” He murmured teasingly to her, suspecting that no one had taken the time to explain such a thing to her before. Ragnar was hardly considered timid and had no qualms about shattering his wife’s innocence on sexual subjects even if her naïve was apart of her allure though it reminded him that she was still young given that he tended to forget at times. Even as she spoke about him hiding he knew that they both knew he would never submit to something like that; he felt no need to confirm such a thing, accordingly.

She mumbled something — probably about his laugh — around her food but in the art of toying with his wife he ignored it, letting her grumble about something he suspected she really loved. As far as Ragnar was concerned he was still waiting for that ‘one of these days’ curious as to what exactly was destined to happen on said day. On the topic of Julooke it seemed that Ragnar his wife shared very much the same thought: that both wanted to ask her to join them in Ravensblood. “Verrine, too. They are a package deal though both continue to prove themselves to me individually.” Ragnar added to her desire of wanting Julooke to go with them. Of course, aside from asking, there wasn’t much they could do to convince her one way or the other but it had never hurt to ask. Ragnar had once thought of even asking Gavriil but knowing that the other man was head over heels puppy eyed for Pump Ragnar doubted he would go for it; and as it was Ragnar did not want to depart from Pump on bad terms.

Neither did he wish to challenge her — which was the main reason as to why he hadn’t done so already. Challenging was a headache because there would always be wolves loyal to the previous leader — something Ragnar had realized after he had fought Björn to the death. Which brought another aspect of why he didn’t want to challenge her for rank. In his culture, to challenge to single combat was to fight to the death and the wolf left standing was the victor. He had no interest in ending Pump’s life.