Stede is busy reading a book himself. His Viking Vixen is the title and the cover is rather swoony with both hero and heroine that had hair nearly as big as they were- coupled with the inability to keep their clothes on. '

At the man's words, he sniffs and turns a page, not out of any stubbornness or pride, merely because he assumes the man is speaking to someone else. Why would anyone demand anything of him after all?