Tyr was enjoying his time in Rogaland so far, Estrid might be a brat but she was someone he knew he could grow to like if he tried hard enough.
Thorgard, however, was his main focus but he knew he might have difficulty with Salgard in the picture.
Salgard was an unknown variable, Tyr felt no hostility from him yet his gut feeling kept telling him that Salgard is bad news.
Tyr grew to listen to that gut feeling, he escaped the clutches of Estrid and decided to go for a walk around Rogaland.
He was yet to see Finn and Nora but he knew that they were free to live as they wanted.
They were not his slaves and neither did they decide to follow him as underlings but Tyr did not see them as equals for they were yet to endure the kind of life that he has.
This Kingdom was a lot different than the ones he has been in, namely Kattegat and Vestfold.
The citizens did not pay him any heed and went about their business like he did not exist.
The Vikings here did not move about with weapons as conflicts were resolved with fists.
They beat it out of each other as Rugalf believed that weapons were for killing.
Tyr took in the freedom, but amidst his walking around, he ran into a little boy that bore an uncanny resemblance to Kahina but the only difference was his skin complexion, he was pale-skinned.
"Move!" The child barked but Tyr did not feel like it.
He might be a kid but that does not give him the right to speak to him anyhow.
"No, I will not. What are you going to do about it?" Tyr questioned and before he knew it, the child stomped his leg before running past Tyr.
"Why you little…!" Tyr grumbled as he arched his head back but he saw a lady pulling the boy's ear.
"Apologize! I told you to stop making trouble!" The lady warned the boy but he refused to speak.
He kept his lips sealed, and the lady holding him rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"I am sorry for his behaviour, he is doing through that rebellious age…" She said with an awkward smile.
She was as flat as a boy, she had no distinguishing feature except for her brunette hair and lazy eyes.
"What the fuck are you looking at?" Tyr asked the lady because this was the first time he had seen a person with lazy eyes.
"I am looking at you…" The lady responded with a raised brow.
"You would be looking at me if I was a hundred meters to the left…" Tyr fired back and this struck a nerve in the lady.
"You know what…. Fuck it!" The lady said as she let go of the boy who proceeded to stomp Tyr's other foot.
Before he ran away, Tyr wanted to chase him and give him a knock on his head but a voice brought him back.
"Tyr Ragnarsson…" The voice called, Tyr returned his head to face forward only to see Salgard.
"Hahaha! Fancy meeting you here, Salgard. I would have thought you were following me…" Tyr said with silence following, both of them stared each other right in the eyes but once again, Tyr could feel no malicious intent.
"Come with me, we need to talk," Salgard said as he began walking forward with Tyr following behind him.
Tyr was skeptical but there was no way that Salgard would be stupid enough to attack him considering how high Rugalf held him.
"Where are we going?" Tyr asked but Salaged remained quiet, walking and walking until he came to an abrupt stop at a dead end.
The place was deserted and this was no place to have a conversation, Tyr looked left and right to confirm they were not lost but it was clear that Salgard intended to bring him here.
"This place smells…" Tyr said, he was a good distance away from Salgard and made sure not to get too close.
If Salgard wanted to fight, Tyr was fairly confident in his abilities to take him on.
Tyr recognized this smell, it was the smell of a rotting corpse, he looked around once again in hopes of finding the body responsible for such a smell but nothing was found.
"If I told you I killed your companions, what would you do?" Salgard tossed the question up in the air, this caught Tyr completely off-guard.
"I would say you are joking," Tyr responded sternly as Salgard turned around to look at him.
"Does this look like the face of a man that is joking? I brought you here away from everyone else to give you a chance to avenge them…" Salgard said.
Tyr was confused, was this some sort of kind of game if it was, he had no intentions of playing.
"Stop fucking around or I just might kill-!" Tyr was interrupted mid-speech as Salgard's hand grabbed his mouth before he could even register his movement.
"Oh dear son of Ragnar. You could not kill me, not even in a hundred years. I am surprised you killed Sighvatur and his wayward son…" Salgard said. Tyr could not move an inch. He removed his hand from Tyr's mouth.
"H-How do you know of them?" Tyr questioned, there was no reason for Salgard to even know those names because the term he used was personal.
He clearly did not hear it from Finn or Nora.
"You are asking the wrong questions, I happened to come across that pathetic clan when I stumbled upon an even greater threat…" Salgard said, pausing briefly before looking Tyr dead in the eye.
"What did you see?" Tyr was curious, Salgard's expression changed and the smile on his face was undone.
"Death…" Salgard muttered before reaching for Tyr's head once again and the younger Viking was able to respond a lot quicker this time as Tyr jumped back.
Salgard rummaged through his trouser and he brought out a finger to show Tyr. Tyr did not think anything of this finger but upon closer inspection, he saw a ring that belonged to Nora, Noa gave her as a physical representation of their love right before she went away with Tyr.
"Do you believe me now?" Salgard asked and Tyr's entire personality changed and with that came Tyr's killing intent.
"Delicious…" Salgard said, licking his lips.
