Athelstan if he were sober would have been cowed by that but instead he does follow him. He doesn't touch him and he's angry. He's angrier than he'd think that he'd have the right to be.

"Ivar does not want to kill you, idiot fool of a man. He loves you even when you do not deserve it," he wishes at times that sense was easier to knock into a person.

"Dodger is the one who gave me the drink," he says. He'd never really intended to tell him.