He was only a dog, he was only a dog, and Yngvi has made his stance on all of that so clear but it's that-- he makes a noise in his throat, scrubs both palms over the stubble that's closer to a beard for the moment because it's keeping his face warm, right, nothing to do with anything else no matter what Amalia was saying. She can't even grow one, what does she know? "What does that even mean," he mutters because what does it even mean? Because if Asher was meant to go down swinging then he's sure that Bronson was meant to go down like that too, just a second after Asher so Asher didn't need to see it or something, or they both went together, and Asher would've said something stupid with blood everywhere. Not like how the blood was then.

"Gjurd's making Aura all weird," is what he says instead of what's sitting in his head, pushes it somewhere else because he'll need to see his lady, his lady who has her pup named Hardie so he can't be anything other than what she expects. "She'll say something weird to you too, like sometimes she's not just Aura anymore, don't know how to explain that one right. Looks less gangly though. Less like a colt. But that's what happens when you swap farming for cutting down trees, got wagers on how long it'll be before she goes stealing someone and if she'll steal a skald. Someone needs to do some stealing, told her it's only proper if she means to do right by me. And right by Mal because that's how he got into trouble so she needs to do something for that one."