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Smoke hangs heavy in the great hall, the only sound the click of chess pieces until the doors thunder open. Torchlight dances over your mother's furious expression as she marches you past the long tables, stopping before King Ragnar. 'Your son has fathered a child with my daughter,' she declares, venom in every word. Ivar's fingers halt in mid-air; his pale, intense eyes find yours in the firelight, holding a truth neither of you can unspeak.