Sigurd who was traveling with the army after they defeated the army that was at whitby now they were heading north he rode near Ragnar who looked at him and said 'we are marching to where your father is currently, to regroup with him," Sigurd who heard this asked "what are we doing next?'
To which Ragnar said "not sure, I think we will go attack Mercia, from what I learned it's a kingdom that is divided by internal issues and civil war and land that is wealthy, it'll be easy to attack but your his son what do you think he will do?' Sigurd thought on this and said "my father thinks differently from others," and Ragnar said "yes that has been proven,' and the boy continued "well if we are to think like him then I would say he will want us to join him and march north and destroy the armies that could threaten the land we have taken as you said the south is weaken and divided so the threat will be to the north,"
when Ragnar heard this he laughed and said "you sound like your father at the time, if your right I'll let you sleep with my wife", and was laughing after that and Sigurd smiled shyly, after some time they arrived at the castle and entered it and the force settled down while the two of them went to the throne room they saw Olaf there eating with floki.
when he saw them he stood up and walked to hug Ragnar then looked to his son, hugged him and said "I see your okay and still no injuries it looked like the name ironside is right for you, come let's eat," they walked to eat and floki looked at them and said they look like they had fun to which Ragnar said they had after crushing the Saxons at whitby he then looked at Olaf and said 'Olaf I want to know what the next part of the plan is?' To which the man spoke "auslag came here before but I sent her done south, since some Mercian forces wanted to come and take land from us, so she will go and punish them and raid and come back York afterwards, while we will leave after you have eaten and rested north," to which Ragnar laughed and left Olaf confused and the man explained "I asked your son what your plan would be he told me you would go north to crush the picts and that I would let him sleep with my wife if he was correct," to which Olaf smiled and said " he has studied under me, but the reason is different we are going to save sweyn he is in trouble," this surprised both Ragnar and Sigurd who asked "what happen to him?" He did well against the Saxon forces then he went to the strathclyde and defeated them and they retreated from him and he chased them further north to their main city and is laying siege to it," Ragnar who know looked at Olaf and asked " so he is winning,' and Olaf said " yes but the picts are raising a force at dunked and plan to ambush him from behind and that is where we come in, we will go north and destroy them and let sweyn continue on his attack," when Ragnar heard this he smiled and said " yes another battle," Olaf said "yes but this one will be more difficult, they will out number us 2 to 1," that made Ragnar even more happy when he said " more for me to kill then," Olaf looked at his son and said " this will be another challenge for you will you take it," to which the young man said " I will," Olaf smiled and said "good then rest for a bit since we need to match quickly.