While Ragnar and his Grand Trunk Line were paving the way through the Midlands, King Aethelred of Wessex was surrounded by his own poor decisions.
At the moment, the King and his starving army were sandwiched between the freezing waters of the River Thames and the relentless, mechanical advance of the Directorate's infrastructure project.
Worse yet, right before he was trapped within the confines of his riverside camp, he was informed that his mercenaries had defected en masse.
They hadn't just left; they had walked across the lines to the Viking encampment because Ragnar offered something Aethelred could not: Dental Insurance and hot coffee.
As such, King Aethelred was currently surrounded by his remaining Ealdormen who had traveled with him to the border defense, where they were engaged in a heated discussion about how to move forward.
