Ragnar hadn't meant to scared the young Ostrega child, and his ears cupped forth to catch the sound of the boy mumbling his own name in a mimicry.
“No” seemed to be the first word that most young children spoke, likely because it was a pretty easy word to mimic. Given this, Ragnar took the liberty of assuming that Charon, perhaps, did not truly grasp the gravity of the word he'd just thrown out to the sleepy silence of the den. The Jarl hardly took it personal. Neither would he have, even if Charon did understand the heavy ramifications of the word “no”. He and his siblings had been through a grave ordeal and now found themselves in the company and care of, otherwise, strangers. The Ostrega children were also children of the Bay and though they did not understand it yet, the wolves of the Bay were their family also. Charon, Liyani, and Levi were not his children but Ragnar would not treat them any different then he had Mercury, Gunnar and Gyda. Blood didn't matter, and the Ostrega children were young enough to need Thistle and him.