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Despite the feast, I decided to stay outside for a while. I lay down in the hammock and watched the sky, sipping a beer from time to time. However, my loneliness was soon cut short.

- Why don't you come back to the feast? (Lagertha)

- It's too loud ... and as you know I am a man of silence and peace. (Ulf)

My wife sat next to me in the hammock and hugged me ... I felt her breasts. Lagertha might not have the biggest breasts, but hers was not the smallest either ... When I hug a woman with big breasts, then I really feel that there is something between us.

- Are you thinking about sex again (giggle)? (Lagertha)

- How do you know? (Ulf)

- Because I'm your wife and I've seen that look on your face many times. (Lagertha)

- I'll tell you the secrets ... men divide the world into four things ... First, things are eatable. Second, things that can be copulated. Third, things that need to be killed. Fourth, stones. (Ulf)

- (giggle) Stones? (Lagertha)

- You can't kill them, you can't eat them ... and sex is painful. (Ulf)

Lagertha straddled me, pulled her dress up and took penis out of my pants ...

We both breathed heavily, the moonlight softly illuminated her bare breasts ... Suddenly I heard a movement in the bushes behind us ... I quickly picked up my wife, sat her in the hammock and headed towards the bushes.

I don't know if the peer got scared and panicked, but when I got there after a few seconds, he was lying on the ground and trying to free himself from the branch.

The pervert was a boy, he was no more than twelve or thirteen, I knew his face. He had lived in Kattegat for a year and had no family. His father was one of the warriors killed in England, the boy worked on farms to survive, collecting wood or forest fruit.

- What are you doing here? (Ulf)

- Lord, it was an accident ... (Boy)

- That's not what I asked ... What are you doing here? (Ulf)

- I'm coming back from the forest, Lord, I set traps for rabbits ... I heard some noises, Lord, I wanted to check them. (Boy)

I gave the boy my hand and helped him get up from the ground.

- It's okay, but don't do it again, I could throw a knife or an ax and kill you. (Ulf)

- Thank you, Lord, I won't do it again. (Boy)

I smiled ...

- It's okay, nothing happened ... Do you like my wife? She's beautiful? (Ulf)

- Yes Lord, Queen Lagertha is beautiful. I wish I had a wife like that one d... (Boy)

Before he could finish his sentence, I grabbed his head, snapped his neck and I returned to Lagertha who had seen everything.

- Why did you kill him? (Lagertha)

- For two reasons, first he saw you naked and second he was watching us. When he saw what we were doing, he might have left, but he preferred to stay. (Ulf)

- I know, but it was only a boy. (Lagertha)

- Boys grow up men, he would probably come home today and satisfy himself by imagining you ... this is even the third reason. (Ulf)

Lagertha stroked my cheek and kissed me.

- I will tell Mira to help me get rid of the body. We'll take the boy to the workshop, chop into smaller pieces, and she'll feed the pigs ... and you go back to the feast. (Lagertha)

- My dear wife... I'll take care of it myself, and I'll get rid of the body tomorrow. Let's go back to our guests ... and later we'll finish what the bastard interrupted. (Ulf)

I quickly carried the corpse to the workshop, made sure I closed it well, and returned to the feast ... which ended after a few hours.

Killing this boy did not give me pleasure, but also I will not have any remorse for his reasons ... just another name on a long list, I doubt if I will remember it in a few days.

(Leif / Trygve POV)

- What did Ulf say? (Leif)

- He'll be coming to Jorvik in two or three weeks. Until then, we have orders to attack Wales. Scorched earth tactic, we rob and destroy everything in our path and we are also to take everyone prisoner. (Trygve)

- Something else? (Leif)

- Yes, Ulf wants to meet Ecbert, so we have to send a messenger to Wessex. (Trygve)

- I and a hundred and fifty people will stay in the city, take the rest and go to Wales ... choose someone who knows the language best and send him to King Ecbert. (Leif)

(End POV)

I was sitting in front of my son's crib and watching him sleep, he would have looked cute if he hadn't drooled ... But there was something else on my mind, King Ecbert was a cunning opponent and he was just as dangerous as an ally. Winning his trust will not be easy, and it may even be impossible ... Of course, sooner or later we will end up on opposite sides, but I would like it to happen on my terms. His stay at the court of Charlemagne ... Lagertha's voice snapped me out of my thoughts.

- Arne looks so peaceful when he sleeps ... (Lagertha)

- I know. I'm curious what he dreams about. (Ulf)

- Probably the same as you ... about my breasts and you also drool when you sleep. Is that why you are looking at him? (Lagertha)

- No, I'm leaving for England soon and will have to make an alliance with the King of Wessex. I want to gain his trust. (Ulf)

- How are you going to do that? (Lagertha)

- I'll give him my son and heir hostage ... (Ulf)