A violent storm strikes the drakkar during the crossing to Nordeland, driving the ship away from the coast and leaving most of the passengers vomiting and struggling to keep control. Freya, though physically steady at sea, is emotionally raw and lashes out at Harald, Skade, and the others with mocking taunts about their weakness and their decision to abduct her. Her defiance comes from grief, rage, and a sense that she has lost everything that once gave her life meaning.

When a wave nearly sweeps the ship apart, Freya briefly longs to let the sea take her and end her pain. In that moment, Hel speaks in Freya’s mind, reminding Freya that she is the mistress of death and insisting that fear can be used as a weapon to reclaim what has been taken from her. The encounter leaves Freya shaken and forces her to confront a deeper question: what she actually wants now.

Still consumed by anger, Freya continues provoking the others until Skade draws her deadly bow and then attacks her physically. Their fight throws the drakkar into dangerous disorder, and Bjorn is forced to pull Skade away and pin Freya down while the crew tries to keep the ship from capsizing. Freya, desperate to wound Bjorn as much as she has been wounded, twists their physical struggle into cruelty, taunting him with the future he once imagined for them and declaring that she will hate him until she dies.

Bjorn insists Freya does not know the full truth, and Harald adds that Saga, as Odin’s daughter, may be able to reveal the answers Freya seeks. After the confrontation, Freya’s fury gives way to clarity. She realizes that more than revenge or death, she wants the truth about Saga’s vision, about Harald, and about her own identity as the daughter of both Hlin and Hel. As the storm begins to ease, Freya joins the rowing and resolves to survive, seek those answers, and make her own fate.