Ragnar, despite how it might have initially seemed, had not been judging Julooke’s ability to let loose and have fun in a way that the callous Viking had nearly forgotten. In fact, it was befitting of her and a good trait to have considering she yearned to be a Caretaker for the pack. He encouraged her to go for the three trade titles she wished for, but even if she never got to that point she already knew she was welcome to watch his children now that the ritual had been performed. In fact, between Sköll and Julooke it was giving Ragnar and Thistle more time to be a couple and enjoy the intimacy of one another, secluded and far from prying ears even if their time spent together was nothing more than conversation (which most of the time it was just that: conversation). As it was, Ragnar and Thistle had never really properly courted for she had already been pregnant when he had taken her as his mate and she had accepted, he suspected at first because the children needed a father and he was offering it to her because he had consummated with her even if it had been after Crete and accordingly felt some duty of responsibility on the off chance that they children were of his seed, and because the idea of her being mates with at the time Kennedy or Gavriil had nearly drove him mad with jealousy.