Ivar leans forward just a little, the interest gleaming in his bright ice-blue eyes. He's heard some of the rumors around Kattegat and has dismissed them all as just the mutterings of ignorant peasants. Granted, they also talked about how the royal family could all shapeshift into savage beasts, so sometimes they got things right, but Ivar had never seen any truth to what they said about Ruby.

"I'd like to think I'd believe you, so long as you didn't try to deceive me." Not that Ruby ever had. The Viking probably trusted her more than he did most of his own brothers. Plus there was the fact Ivar can easily see through almost any lie when someone tries to feed him one.