The girl’s eyes met his and his heart gave a painful palpitation as it slammed into him just how much she looked like Kenna. It made sense, given that Hati was her daughter and his half sister after all, yet, it still effectively worked to wind him nevertheless. All of Kenna’s sons to Eitri ended up looking more like Eitri then they did Kenna and though Ragnar had begrudgingly accepted Sigurd as his mother’s new mate (he could never see him as father for that was asking far, far too much) he was happy that Kenna was happy and that she had finally gotten her wish: a daughter that looked rather like a spitting image of her. Who was Ragnar to begrudge her, her happiness, after all? He had worked hard to prove that he was the good son all along (though idly he wondered if she still fussed and fawned sickeningly over Váli as she had). The girl sounded exhausted and as he approached his pace slowed. While he would have normally displayed his dominance, physically showing his importance and rank within this pack in the presence of the child he could not. He was still a family man at heart, no matter what rank he held.
Hati was young, yes, but old enough that Kenna allowed her to leave the Cove. Not, apparently, as Hati told it, without a companion. One that Ragnar thought was rather fitting: Sköll son of Ragnar’s closest friend: Floki. The boy was significantly older than Hati and her twin, Fenrir, and if Ragnar remembered correctly should have been entering his age of sexual maturity soon. There were many questions that seethed in Ragnar’s mind, each one important. Where was her twin, Fenrir? Had he stayed behind in the Cove with Kenna and Sigurd? How was their mother? Was she well? Did Sigurd still make her happy? What was the condition on Váli? Nerian had spoken that he had became violent, especially towards Nerian who belonged to Ragnar. Was his little brother deteriorating as Björn had before Ragnar had killed his eldest brother (for a woman, admittedly, and revenge for their father) and inherited the helm.
Ragnar was silent when Hati explained that she dreamt of a raven, no doubt in Ragnar’s mind that it was Odinn and if not the Allfather than either Huginn or Muinnin both of whom were well known symbols of Odinn. Hati’s question was timid, almost as if she was humbled by the fact that the Allfather himself had specifically sought to help her.