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Asleif Thorsdottir ([info]godlierthanthou) wrote in [info]marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-01-29 23:46:00


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Imagine Asleif's surprise when she had heard her sister had returned from her travels (farther than she knew though they might have been).  Zooey's contact to tell Asleif had been a pleasant surprise, however, and she had told the girl to pass on to the others that she would be making a brief stop to see Svalin (and perhaps a tea party with the budding young sorceress before she left).

So it was that Asleif found herself outside Svalin's door, knocking.  She intended to make no excuses, though she knew her handling of things was not strictly within what Svalin had set before her.  But she would not be of the lineage of Loki if she did not sometimes seek loopholes.  Her own affairs had overtaken those goals and she had set right what she could.  She apologized not.



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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 03:36 am UTC (link)
Svalin had been in the middle of trying to recreate the hot chocolate she had in Jon's world when the knock at the door to the bungalow came. "Enter," she called out.

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 03:38 am UTC (link)
"I had heard you had returned," Asleif said as she entered. She was speaking true English, not translated Asgardian. A telling affection of the time she now spent with mortals, her time bonded to one.

"I am pleased to see you well," she added.

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 03:40 am UTC (link)
Svalin turned the stove off at the sound of the voice. She had expected Hal wanting to spar. Not Asleif. She turned and greeted her sister with a smile.

"Sister mine! I art glad to see thee and glad to see thee well." Svalin hugged Asleif. "I hath missed thee greatly."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 03:41 am UTC (link)
Asleif actually smiled and embraced her sister. "And I you."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 03:43 am UTC (link)
"How fares thee? Thou'rt looking well and the most relaxed I hath e'er seen thee."

"Wouldst thou care for some hot chocolate? I art trying a new way to make it."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 03:44 am UTC (link)
"I am well, Sister," Asleif told her. "Humbled, I look upon the world with new eyes."

She nodded. "Cooking? You surprise me yet. I would love some."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 03:47 am UTC (link)
"I art glad to hear that, Sister. I wast concerned whenst I arrived home to find thee not here," she said carefully. "What hast thou been doing?"

"I wouldst not call it cooking. 'Tis merely making hot chocolate by melting truffles and heating milk."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 03:52 am UTC (link)
"Traveling the corners of this world," she replied. "There are many beyond this city who need are help. Deeds far better done than tussling with some criminal or spellcaster."

She looked down. "I have been trying to be a better person."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 04:01 am UTC (link)
Svalin wanted to bring up how she left Asleif in charge, being the second oldest, but after hearing her words she decided against it. Much like Svalin, Asleif had her own path to follow to prove herself to others and to herself.

"Migard doth need as much hope as Asgard," Svalin said. "We must maketh a difference where we can."

"Sister, thou hath always been a good person. One I hath always been proud of, admired and respected. Thou doth not hath to better thyself in mine eyes."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 04:13 am UTC (link)
Asleif looked up. "It does my heart good to hear such words. I, too, have always been proud to call you my sister. Our paths differed, but never did I doubt the goals were much the same."

"You seem different to my eyes as well, Sister."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 04:27 am UTC (link)
Svalin nodded and relit the stove. "Aye. Mine travels didst change me greatly. I hath proved mine worth and knoweth mine duties to Asgard. My path ist one I accept and wilt follow." Svalin poured some milk into the pot to mix with the melted chocolate. "I hath e'en found love in mine travels."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 04:30 am UTC (link)
Asleif is not an easy goddess to take by surprise. She's even better at covering it up when she is.

Except perhaps now.

"Had I heard this from any other lips, I would have believed it not."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 04:38 am UTC (link)
"I doth concede that it ist something that seemeth unlikely for me, but mayhap it only took the right man. It doth not matter now. I wilt ne'er see him again and I hath mine duties to Asgard, but it wast nice whilst it lasted."

She fetched two mugs out of the cupboard.

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 04:46 am UTC (link)
"To throw away such as rare and precious gift as love seems most unwise to me, Sister," Asleif said at last.

She looked her sister over. "But the choice is made and your voice tells me you believe you made the right one. That is enough, I suppose."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 04:52 am UTC (link)
"Duty doth come before the heart and desires," Svalin said as she poured hot chocolate in the mugs. "We wert both agreed that parting wast best. He hath his duties to his world and I hath mine to Asgard. We couldst not ask the other to turn their back on all that doth make us."

She offered a mug to Asleif. "I only regret that I only had a week with him. I doth not regret loving him. He wilt always be in mine heart and memories."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 04:58 am UTC (link)
Asleif took the mug and sipped, letting out a pleasant noise.

To debate further was pointless. Asleif was beginning to believe herself a good person, but she knew she was also far more self-serving than her sister. Svalin made the choices she believed best. It would be enough.

"As you say," she said instead. "Would that my own trials had passed so pleasantly."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 05:03 am UTC (link)
"Mine trials wert not as easy as thou think, Sister. I wilt listen if thou wilt tell me of thine." Svalin sipped her chocolate. It was close, but not perfect.

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 05:04 am UTC (link)
Asleif nodded and sipped again. "I will tell my tale," she said. "And perhaps then you will speak of yours."

She went on. "You have met the mortal, Dawn?"

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 05:05 am UTC (link)
"Aye. She ist pleasant and I wast surprised to see her when I returned."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 05:08 am UTC (link)
"My tale begins with her, if truth be told. Not long after we returned from Asgard, a cult which had taken root in the city kidnapped her, intent upon using her for sacrifice.

"I sensed the ritual and the dark magics about it and made to stop it."

Asleif bowed her head. "In my duel with their sorcerer, I was careless, determined to prove no mortal sorcerer could be my equal. I unleashed powerful without hesitation... and brought about the end of her life in the crossfire."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 05:05 pm UTC (link)
"I art sorry, sister," Svalin said. Svalin knew what it felt like to be responsible for the death of others. Not the same circumstances, but she understood.

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 06:19 pm UTC (link)
Asleif closed her eyes, thinking back over that terrible moment. "I have rarely stopped to consider the consequences of my actions," she went on, "but in that moment, even I knew I had made a grievous error."

"I was to pay for my arrogance. The All-Father bound my soul to hers, submerged me within her being, to buoy it until it was strong enough again to live."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 06:29 pm UTC (link)
Svalin put her arms around her sister. "The path we art put on to learn lessons art not always easy, but we doth learn and grow from them."

Svalin released her. "Thou'rt stronger and wiser for it. I art proud of thee."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 06:43 pm UTC (link)
"It was... passing strange," Asleif said, after she had returned the embrace. "I remember all that she endured in my place. Her fears. Her hopes. All that she was, I remember."

"During the battles with Dormamu and Sutur, she came close to dying once more. We united fully to face down the threat and came separate when it was done.

"I know that you tasked me with watching our siblings... But the experience left me not the same as who you had tasked. I saw in Dawn the possibility of heroism and fanned mystic potential into flame, gifting her with a measure of physical power as well. She was responsible and intelligent... fearful, yet able to overcome it. Perfect to watch where I could not."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 06:51 pm UTC (link)
Svalin nodded. "Aye. It ist okay, Asleif. We all need to follow our own paths and sometimes we hath to walk alone. Our twins, well thine twin mostly, wilt always need someone to watch o'er them, but it doth not always have to be us."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 07:21 pm UTC (link)
"Aye," Asleif agreed. "I walk for now, but who is to say what the future may yet hold? I look forward to finding out."

She went on. "And you, Sister? What of your adventures?"

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 07:28 pm UTC (link)
"We saw many times, different worlds and e'en went into the future. We fought vampires, knights, I slayed a dragon...oh that doth remind me! Do not go anywhere."

Svalin jumped up and ran for her bedroom. A moment later she came back carrying a large sack. "Dragon parts for thee for thine spells. A claw, a tooth and a scale." Svalin smiled. "If thou doth want them."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 07:41 pm UTC (link)
Asleif smiled as she accepted the gift. "You have my thanks, Sister."

"It sounds as though you accomplished much."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 07:57 pm UTC (link)
"Thou'rt welcome. I doth know dragon parts art hard to acquire."

"Aye we didst, but it ist good to be home. Father and our mothers doth send their regards. I wast in Asgard for a short time before coming back to Migard. They art well and hope thou'rt well."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 08:25 pm UTC (link)
"And now?" she asked. "You will remain among the Defenders?"

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 08:34 pm UTC (link)
Svalin nodded. "Aye. I hath proved mine worth and wast allowed to pick between Asgard and Migard. I wilt be a Defender again and return to Asgard when there ist need."

"What about thou? Wilst thou resume thine journeys on Migard?"

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 11:14 pm UTC (link)
"I shall," she agreed. "I no longer find it quite so onerous a place to travel and am still discovering much. Though I plan to look in upon you all, and Zoey as well, from time to time."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 11:19 pm UTC (link)
Svalin smiled. "That doth maketh two of us." When they first arrived on Earth, neither Svalin or Asleif wanted to be there. Svalin nodded. "That ist acceptable. I wouldst worry greatly if I didst not hear from thee."

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[info]godlierthanthou
2011-01-30 11:44 pm UTC (link)
"And I of you all," Asleif agreed.

She raised her glass. "To new adventures."

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 11:45 pm UTC (link)
Svalin smiled and raised her mug in salute. She downed the rest of her hot chocolate.

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[info]shield_maiden
2011-01-30 11:48 pm UTC (link)
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