Ragnar received no answer in regards to how they had not scented the rank urine markings of a brand new, freshly minted claimed pack lands and though it served to annoy the Jarl he let it go for the simple fact that he had too. He could not make them give him a response when, in reality, they already had. It would have been redundant but nevertheless he still didn’t understand. He sincerely doubted there was an area of their borders they left unmarked so he summed it up to the fact to what was the only apparent reason to him: their noses must have either been broken or not working correctly. Or, he added as an after thought, they just hadn’t cared. Perhaps Stavanger Bay, Ragnar considered, was not the first they had trespassed on. Perhaps they were simply so used to trespassing and getting away with it that they thought the Bay would bestow them the same courtesy. They wouldn’t. Or, at the very least Ragnar wouldn’t and since he was the Jarl his word was the law. In a way this thought was strange because he was used to having to restrain himself for Pump's sake, but her death had bestowed him the freedom he had desired from his ball and chain that had kept him compliant to her word despite that most of the time he had disagreed with her leniency. Death was not how Ragnar had wanted to break free of the ball and chain, and certainly not with hers at that but nothing could be done about it.
Ragnar was silent as the girl spoke, taking a long moment to dissect her words even though her speech was incredibly hard for the Nord to understand. It was cut off English, or perhaps it was just her accent but, again, he struggled with it despite his fluency in the common tongue. He was fairly confident, however, he got the gist of her suggestion, if only because it was similar to his own thoughts. He had considered taking them as his slaves, a practice that was common to his culture and to the Cove, however, keeping them as the Bay’s Captives was a more temporary solution that slavery. Besides, the girl was still just a child. If she had been an adult he would have insisted the slave route given that it was his pack and his judgment to make, however, her obvious youth spared her of being tied to the Viking for the rest of her life, or, until he decided to free her.
With that the Viking fell silent.