His curiosity has taken him to a huge amount of places, but unlike the other Viking men, Björn is not only a raider... He's an explorer, someone who understands that there are more things on earth than our poor culture can include, so he doesn't destroy everything he sees in order to get more and more lands converted to his behavior. He explores, tries to learn, to get something good from everything he finds. Like his father, he is a curious man and his curiosity is exactly what makes him get closer to her cage.

But, also like his father, he is intelligent and perceptive enough to notice the little details that shouldn't be present on something so delicate as a dancer like her: the bloody stains on her shoes, the tears in her eyes... Such a beautiful and delicate artist shouldn't be on a cage, exposed like an exotic animal...

"Pull her down... I want to see her closer," he asks, getting closer to the cage when the merchant land it on the ground causing the sweet ballerina to shrink in a little ball at the center of the cage.

To the eyes of the others, just another step of the beautiful dance she starts again in the next second, swirling around her own body so graciously... To his eyes, a clear expression of pain.

"Open the cage. I'll take her with me" he says, getting near the bars, seeing when she doesn't even look surprised by being purchased. She already heard it before... And when the merchant tells him her price, she closes her eyes on another turn around herself, thinking he'll go away like all the others before him.

But the sound of a surprised sigh and a bag of gold being moved makes her movements stop, as graciously as she was dancing. And she can hear the sound of the cage being opened and the merchant's jaw clenching in angry.

The beautiful blonde prince takes her by the hand and pulls her to his arms as soon as she's out of the cage.

"Such a relic must be well treated and protected, not explored like a decoy."

His eyes are caught by her dance while he was looking around the market, talking with Hvitserk about the new merchants they saw at the docks and how Kattegat has grown in the last years

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His eyes are caught by her dance while he was looking around the market, talking with Hvitserk about the new merchants they saw at the docks and how Kattegat has grown in the last years. He suddenly lost the attention to what his brother was saying, looking at such beautiful and gracious movements, so contrasting with the scenario around her.

"Ubbe? Brother... what are you looking at?" Hvitserk asked and he pointed to the cage, hearing Hvitserk's surprised expression, without losing not even a second of her sight.

Her movements making him get closer and closer to the cage until his face was almost touching the bars. His blue eyes staring her eyes, following the sadness on them in each turn around her own body.

"Did you like my little bird, my prince?" he listened to the merchant's voice, throwing his heavier gold bag on him without even counting the content.

"She's not yours anymore..."

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