– What an honor! – exclaimed Ottar. – If there is such an occasion, then I am entirely at your service, sir marshal! And where is the expedition going, if it's not a secret?
As if he has the right to refuse... they'll send him to the far north to fight naked yarli-berserkers riding on giant bears – and he'll go anyway! Where else can he go? It seems that the marshal has something epic in mind.