"He didn't say anything important. He thought I would want to see what I had caused, asked me if I was proud of myself," Athelstan said and there's a rueful smile. "You can't punish someone who doesn't take responsibility for their actions. He sees himself as a victim and maybe he is not completely wrong."
Athelstan doesn't look directly at Ragnar continuing what he is doing but he doesn't push him away or move away from him again. The anger he feels exhausts him and he's not sure it's really about what Ragnar did or about his own inability to do anything.
"Ragnar, I am not sure I even know why you did it, other than a sense of justice that doesn't translate outside of your world. He doesn't understand our ways," he manages to contradict himself in the way he often does when speaking of the Vikings or of the gods, he is both viking and not viking and it's times like these it's clearer the way he is pulled between two worlds.
"He called me your thing, when he was fucking me, that's what made me tell him to get off of me and this... does not make me look less like your thing. I'm sure he thinks that you did this because he hurt one of your toys."
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Athelstan doesn't look directly at Ragnar continuing what he is doing but he doesn't push him away or move away from him again. The anger he feels exhausts him and he's not sure it's really about what Ragnar did or about his own inability to do anything.
"Ragnar, I am not sure I even know why you did it, other than a sense of justice that doesn't translate outside of your world. He doesn't understand our ways," he manages to contradict himself in the way he often does when speaking of the Vikings or of the gods, he is both viking and not viking and it's times like these it's clearer the way he is pulled between two worlds.
"He called me your thing, when he was fucking me, that's what made me tell him to get off of me and this... does not make me look less like your thing. I'm sure he thinks that you did this because he hurt one of your toys."