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Sigyn looked at Hæsten as he walked into her and Skade's shared room with a platter of food. She watched as Skade traced runes onto the floor and otherwise ignored his presence.

She missed her monk.

"He will have me send you to him, Bloodhair." Hæsten stated looking at them.

"It is I who choose who it is I lie with." Skade answers as Hæsten smirks. "Kill. You have only ever taken women, they do not give themselves to you." Skade smirked.

"Whether it is given or taken, I get what I want." She gagged at the man as he licked his lips.

"You may take my body but you will not have my power." Skade taunted as Hæsten chuckled.

"And what about her?" He glanced her way with lustful eyes.

"I would slit my throat before I let you touch me." Sigyn claimed and Skade glared at the Dane.

"We will see," He said smirking at her and looking down at her body. "I have one thousand men, that is power enough." He said to Skade. The seer stood up protectively in front of her sister for once as she looked at the Dane.

"She is to not be touched, lord. She must remain pure for my power to be at its peak. The man I choose will benefit greatly from Alfred's death. But I will have to give myself to that man and only when it is earned." She walks to him seductively.

Sigyn ignored them for a moment as she took in the information. If she allowed a man to take her virginity, her sister would be weakened. She blushed at the thought, she wondered if Osferth would offer to do so.

Her beautiful but stupid sister had not even realized what she'd done.

"Maybe I should jump hump you both now and be done with it." He said grabbing Skade roughly.

"Prove yourself, lord."

"Prove myself? To a woman?" She watched Hæsten closely as Skade moved closer to him to place a hand on his neck.

"And I will allow you inside me and my power inside you. Uhtred will come for us and if you are to take his place, then you must first kill him and then I am yours." Skade cut his neck with her nail and placed the blood on her tongue, Sigyn looked away in disgust. Sigyn and Skade moved to sit on one side of the table as Hæsten was across from them as they ate quietly.

"I killed this bare myself with an arrow." She could kill a wolf with one arrow and this was the best he could do?

"You are pleased with more than the killing of a hare." Skade said looking at the Dane.

"I am, Alfred is dead and is it opposite a vision of beauty." He motioned to them as he said as such.

Disgusting.

"I belong to another, he will come." Skade said as she leaned into the other woman.

"Soon, I hope and like this hare will fall by my arrows." Hæsten bragged.

"Do not underestimate Uhtred and his men." Sigyn said with a smirk.

"And then he will avenge me, lord. All of me." Skade said leaning back purposely as he looked down at her body with lust.

"Uhtred has finally arrived to claim you both as he said he would." Hæsten tells them when they both stand outside to look out the fortress.

"With how many men?" She asked.

"Not more than thirty." Hæsten said smugly.

Sigyn wondered if Aethelflæd convinced Uhtred to ask for help from Alfred.

"That is all?" Hæsten chuckled at Skade.

"Thirty, fifty. All he can do is try to creep over the walls so when he moves I will have his balls."

"Thirty men is nothing." Skade snapped and turned to Sigyn.

"He is no longer a lord, he has no men, no silver, and no land."

"Then be sure to win me, lord. And be sure to gift me, prisoners, I have not seen a man beg for mercy for some time." Skade placed her hands on his shoulders seductively as he sighed.

Sigyn just wanted to be by Osferth's side once again, preferably without her sister.

"The great lord Uhtred and his army. Ready the archers and prepare every last man. The Dane-slayer shall die this bet morning." Hæsten announced. Her eyes glanced amongst the group until they landed on Osferth who was already looking up at her with a worried expression.

"Yes, lord."

"Lord Uhtred, such a frightening sight." Hæsten taunted.

"You are a coward, Hæsten. Hiding inside your fortress when the priest of Eoferwic did rise you fled? When Sigefrid attacked Alfred, you fled. And at the nunnery once again, you fled." Uhtred said with a smirk and she laughed quietly at Hæsten who glared at her.

"I took your women!" Hæsten shouted childishly.

"And as long as I live and breathe they still are my women," Skade shot Hæsten a glare and Sigyn smirked. "Fight me. I will wait for you in the clearing there, bring a guard and no more. Let us make the square and let the two of us fight." Uhtred shouts.

"That is what you want, to die?"

"What I want is an end to this. What is most likely to happen is you will remain a coward, you will remain inside your fortress," Finan and Sihtric chuckle as their men join in. "Songs will be sung about your cowardice, I shall pay for them to be written."

"I am no coward dane-slayer! If death is what you want, then you shall have it." Hæsten yelled as he left and the two women followed with smiles.