nextgen_asgard2 (nextgen_asgard2) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2012-07-08 21:56:00

Entry tags:

asleif, cosmopolitan, marlow, plot-"wedding march to a war drum", svalin

(Marlow, Vernique and Asleif)
Alfveror made his way from the council room through the great hall and out into the city proper. Despite all of the destruction and the threats that still loomed, he walked like a man with confidence through the rubble. The frost giants, trolls and other beings that had caused the damage had retreated for now, but Alfveror knew they would be back. It was guaranteed that they would be back.

He smiled as he slipped through a hole in the wall that surrounded the city. His contact should be arriving soon.

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	butterflybullet 2012-07-09 01:04 am UTC (link)
	Fae realm? Fae? Vernique's tiny tiny little mouth is right by Marlow's ear, so she'll be the only one subject to. "FAERIES HAVE KIDNAPPED MY SON. AND WE CAN'T RIP THE BASTARD'S THROAT OUT YET BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHERE SOLVER IS!." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-07-09 01:10 am UTC (link)
	Marlow shot Tiny Vernique a 'you've got to be joking, let's rip his throat out NOW' look. Fae realm, Asgard, Marlow was woefully uninformed on the subject of politics. She understood baby-in-trouble. As long as they were going to save Solver, she would rip the fangirl's boyfriend's throat out later. She could do it. She'd been working out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	godlierthanthou 2012-07-09 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	"T'will bring hope to some," the ravens said, "but to whom, precisely, well... let us see just who is laughing, when all is said and done." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_asgard2 2012-07-09 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	"What of the child? What ist to happen to him?" Alfveror wasn't that evil that he wanted to see the child come to harm. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-07-09 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	Vernique listens intently. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-07-10 03:09 pm UTC (link)
	Marlow waited, holding her breath to hear if they actually intended to hurt Solver. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	godlierthanthou 2012-07-10 09:09 pm UTC (link)
	"The boy... hath the potential to change all our fates," the ravens said. "Much may be forestalled or prevented outright... should certain other parties be allowed to have him." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_asgard2 2012-07-10 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	"Very well," he said. "I wilt be in contact anon, but I must return before mine absence ist notice." He gave the ravens a bow and then headed back into the city. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

butterflybullet
2012-07-10 11:37 pm UTC (link)

"Well that was pretty damn non-committal, Aslief!" Vernique is so incensed she can't lay low any further. She flits about "Marlow, I've got no idea what kind of spells work in this turf, and I don't really care if it's the Crimson Bands of Cytorrak or the Pink Fuzzy Handcuffs of Truth, can you do something about his hands? I need him breathing!" And she'll flit her way right into the guy's face as her incredibly tiny superstrong hands grab him by the eyelids.

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	godlierthanthou 2012-07-11 12:01 am UTC (link)
	The unkindness of ravens, meanwhile, squawked and lifted into the air, flying in every direction as they sought to escape. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-07-11 02:45 pm UTC (link)
	"Finally!" If Marlow stopped to think what kind of spells would work here, she'd have been too slow to help. As it was, she released crimson bands to wind around Alf, yanking them tight to immobilize him. They visibly pulsed with her anger. More bands erupted under his feet to fully ensnare him. In seconds he was a mass of pulsing, struggling red. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-07-11 02:59 pm UTC (link)
	"Fantastic, thanks. Okay, pal." She held him by the lids as if pulling him up by the collar. "Where. Is. My. Son?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_asgard2 2012-07-11 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	"I doth not know," he said as he struggled to get out of the bands. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-07-11 04:17 pm UTC (link)
	"Don't believe you," Marlow said in an almost singsong voice. The bands tightened threateningly. "You're going down, pal. How far down depends on what you say in the next thirty seconds. Where's Solver?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_asgard2 2012-07-11 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	"I doth not know! Malekith has him! That ist all I know! I wast trying to learn where he ist so I couldst help the child! I wast playing along so I couldst help!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-07-11 05:22 pm UTC (link)
	"On the point zero-zero-zero one percent chance that you're telling the truth. Thanks. So where does one go looking for Malekith, and what sort of things has he got in the way?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_asgard2 2012-07-11 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	"I art loyal to Asgard!" he said. "I doth not know where Malekith ist. I swear on mine life." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-07-11 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	"Marlow, get us back to the city, would you? We can waste two minutes dropping him off and getting some help." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

marlow
2012-07-12 02:47 pm UTC (link)

"Okay, but I want it on record now that I disagree with letting him go. I want to pop his head off." In response, the bands around his neck and shoulders squeezed. "I guess I can always do it later if it turns out he's lying." She peered at the Asgardian. "Not like he can hide from me for very long."

She cast the spell to take them to the last place they'd seen the others.

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	butterflybullet 2012-07-12 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	"You are probably totally right," Vernique agrees. But there were things one did and things one didn't, and she still remembered that vaguely somewhere in the parts of her brain not occupied with this issue. And she'll storm over until she finds people. "FAERIES HAVE KIDNAPPED MY SON." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2012-07-12 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	Svalin was currently leaning over maps of Asgard on a large table in the great hall when her wife burst onto the scene. "Please explain," she said looking up from the maps. It felt like a ton of bricks had been added to the weight already on her shoulders. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

butterflybullet
2012-07-12 08:47 pm UTC (link)

"Malekith or however you pronounce it has Solver. Sonofabitchveror here was talking to Aslief about it all plotty-like, and she was real non-commital about Solver's safety, so thisguy needs to be held for a fair trial later, and Aslief and I are gonna have Words next chance I get, but for right now I'm all about finding Malekith and getting Solver back and is that on the priority list or not, hon?" Vernique's voice gets increrasingly thick and teary within the anger.

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shield_maiden
2012-07-12 09:13 pm UTC (link)

A million and one thoughts raced through Svalin's head at first and then none. Her look on her face was of pure disbelief after her wife just said her very own sister, a princess of Asgard, was a traitor. No. Asleif had her issues, but Svalin couldn't believe she was a traitor to her people and her family. The crux of it all was that Vernique would not lie about such a thing.

"Take him to the cells," she said to two Crimson Hawk warriors. They grabbed Alfveror and hauled him away.

That weight on her shoulders got heavier.

She looked at her wife for a moment. The next few words were perhaps the most difficult of her life.

"Aye, getting Solver back ist a priority." A long heavy pause. "But I cannot do it." Had Sif, Thor, Odin or even Aridis been here Svalin would have been racing out to save him the second the words passed Vernique's lips, but they weren't here and she had a duty.

Her stomach twisted up in a knot and she felt like she was going to be sick.

"I canst give thee and Marlow warriors for thine quest, but I must remain."

Svalin looked away from her wife.

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butterflybullet
2012-07-12 09:31 pm UTC (link)

At any other time, Vernique would spot the signs of what she was feeling and ache for her. But right now, all she could see was being blown off -- their son being blown off -- because Svalin couldn't trust anyone else with the deskwork.

"...'kay," she says hoarsely. "I won't waste time discussing. Norns for-freaking-fend I disrupt The Choreography. Just give us some groundpounders and we'll be on our way."

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shield_maiden
2012-07-12 09:45 pm UTC (link)

Sensitive Asgardian hearing picked up Vernique's words and Svalin's stomach twisted up tighter. By the All-Father's beard she wanted nothing more than to go after her son and kill the son of a troll who took him. Her hands curled into fists and anger swelled inside of her. She wanted to scream or hit something, but she was the Queen of Asgard. She could do neither. She held the rage in her heart and made her face as calm as the surface of a quiet pond.

She motioned to the Crimson Hawks, Asgard's elite, and nodded. They couldn't spare to lose anyone in the defense of the realm, but if Svalin couldn't go, then some warriors would.

"Return mine son to me or die trying," she said to the warriors.

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marlow
2012-07-14 12:08 am UTC (link)

Marlow blinked from one to the other, missing any subtle undercurrents. All she knew was that Solver was still missing and there were too many things that had to be done /NOW/. She needed to remind her team that she was a dangerous player in her own right.

"I'll send anybody in my way to somewhere else." The 'somewhere else' was clearly a place they wouldn't survive. "Whoever took Solver will be very sorry. If your guys won't listen, I don't want them."

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	shield_maiden 2012-07-14 12:12 am UTC (link)
	"They wilt obey the princess," Svalin said clearly referring to Vernique. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-07-14 06:26 am UTC (link)
	"I know you're good at that, Marlow, but backup never hurt. When looking, as many eyes and ears as possible are good. Take us back where we left off, and let's get back to it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-07-15 02:09 am UTC (link)
	"All right," Marlow said. "Back up can hurt if you can't trust them. After what we just heard, there isn't trust. There are consequences." She didn't bother with the swirl of visible effects. They were just gone, back to where they'd heard the damning conversation. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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