Letters from No One [IC-Joining]

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It hadn’t exactly offended Ragnar and really he had no right to claim that she was lying to him, however, if it had been an assignment from Pump he should have known about it and wondered if it had been this woman’s own assignment or if Pump didn’t think it was important enough to inform him of. That thought sent a pang of guilt through the man who had moved her severed body and with the assistance of Surra buried it. She was deceased and he hated to think ill of the deceased and so he shoved those thoughts hastily from his mind. She introduced herself as ‘Aine’ to him and he tucked it away, staying silent as she continued to speak, having to take a longer pause to process her accented words as he attempted to find the full common tongue equivalent. Which despite his fluency in it was harder than he would have expected. Ein had began doing something similar when he had to speak in the common tongue though Ragnar suspected the boy was just trying to mimic Ragnar’s own accent. Either that or it was his way to rebel against the common tongue because it seemed his eldest son favored Norse the most. "What skills can you offer Stavanger Bay?" He asked out of normal ‘meet and greet at the borders’ procedure. She had once been his pack mate as far as she said (he didn’t doubt it because she knew Thistle) but considering he had never met her, never even heard of her he had no idea what she could offer them. "More importantly, do you swear fealty and alliance to me and to my family?" It went without saying that dedication to the pack came hand in hand with those things but if she intended to vanish for months again well…he didn’t know. He wasn’t a temporary home for wandering souls. He created a family not just with Thistle but with the survivors of the Ridge, they were all a family and while family came and went he liked knowing his ranks were solid with those who were loyal to not just him but to one another.