Svalin Thorsdottir (shield_maiden) wrote,
@ 2011-05-22 00:26:00

Every Second of the Night I Live Another Life
Svalin moved quietly and cautiously through the skeletal trees. Soggy leaves barely moved under her feet and it helped silence her footsteps. Her sword was drawn and ready, but she couldn't see anything with this fog all around. Shadowy shapes moved through the fog, but they never drew close enough to see if they were friend or foe.

Svalin had charged after a few, but she never reached them.

Movement to the right caught her eye and she turned quickly. The dark shape lingered for a moment and retreated into the fog. Svalin gave chase. Her movements were slow and awkward due to the pregnancy and she couldn't move quick enough to catch the shadowy figures.

She growled in frustration and received an agreeing kick from the child inside of her.

The fog swirled and moved around her as watched for any shadows to appear.

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	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 03:09 am UTC (link)
	Svalin put the point of Vigfrior to his throat. "Nay, mine son. I wilt not kill thee now. I wilt prevent thee from e'er becoming like this." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lastscion 2011-05-23 03:17 am UTC (link)
	"And just how do you plan to do that? You're the goddess of hope... and even you despair. The odds are against you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 04:07 pm UTC (link)
	"I hath doubts, but I do not despair," she said. "The fate of two worlds rest 'pon mine shoulders, but I doth not carry it alone." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lastscion 2011-05-23 04:17 pm UTC (link)
	"Good... because your enemies are legion. Giants, dark elves, demons of Asgard and Midgard. Even the other gods move against you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 04:39 pm UTC (link)
	His words disturbed her to her very core. She assumed the enemies of Asgard moved against her and her unborn son, but other gods was disturbing news indeed. The tip of her sword faltered and then lowered. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lastscion 2011-05-23 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	"This is your dream mother... I'm just telling you what you know, deep down. You really should know better than all this optimism... Goddss of Hope... of a nation that has always known it was doomed. Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 05:13 pm UTC (link)
	"E'eryone canst have hope," she said. "Most of us wilt die, but for a few there ist hope that there wilt be a new age and the cycle wilt be broken. Thou'rt supposed to be that symbol of hope. The light that guides them." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lastscion 2011-05-23 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	"You're a warrior - you know well how much easier it is to destroy than protect. You're also the symbol of hope - I'm just what you make of me... and destruction... has so many more ways to come to pass than guidance does." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	"Fighting to protect something ist more honorable than fighting to destroy something," she snapped. "I wilt not let thee be like this. If this doth happen, I wilt fight thee until mine last breath to ensure thou cannot destroy two worlds." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lastscion 2011-05-23 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	He bows low, still grinning. "Good, then be prepared to kill your own child. Because this... is far more likely than any other path." he replies, before he, too, begins to fade from view. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 08:39 pm UTC (link)
	Svalin watched him go through eyes filled with tears. She bowed her head and cried as the dream dissolved into consciousness. Svalin looked into the darkness of her room. Her chest was tight and her stomach was in a knot. She curled up on her side and cried. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2011-05-23 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	Vernique was walking down the hall, and suddenly heard something. "Svalin? Hon, you in there?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	"Aye," she managed to choke out between sobs. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2011-05-23 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	Vernique came in and climbed on the bed to get her arm around her as much as possible. "It's okay. It's gonna be okay." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	Svalin turned into the embrace and cried for a bit. "I doth...I won't...I can't kill him." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2011-05-23 09:01 pm UTC (link)
	"You don't have to," she mutters. "Nobody's gonna make you. It's going to be okay." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 09:10 pm UTC (link)
	"Solver...he...he wast...so much destruction. He said to stop him I wouldst have to kill him." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2011-05-23 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	"Just a dream, hon. Just a dream. It's all going to be okay." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

shield_maiden
2011-05-23 09:21 pm UTC (link)

Svalin took a few deep breaths and tried to calm herself down. "Dreams art important, Vernique, and not to be dismissed so easily."

She wiped the tears from her face with the back of her hand.

"Dreams canst be portents of what ist to come. E'ery night since our wedding I hath dreamed of naught but destruction and death at the hands of our son."

There was a deep sigh.

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	butterflybullet 2011-05-23 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	"You're stressed. You're worried. So your subconscious is stuck on the bad options. Your grandad and a bunch of mystic experts can't figure out where the chips'll fall. It can't be as cut and dried as certain doom." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 10:26 pm UTC (link)
	"Mayhap, but it ist easier to destroy than protect and the odds art not favorable," Svalin said. "Not when there may be other other gods working against us. I shouldst Lord Odin." Svalin sighed. "I doth not despair, but I doth hath doubts." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2011-05-23 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, not despairing is good. And yeah, maybe you should talk to him about it, but there's the whole issue of how much time we should be spending Up There. And what business of the other gods' is Solver?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-23 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	"I doth think a quick trip to ask about mine dreams wouldst not hurt." Svalin shrugged. "I doth not know, but it may have to deal with Solver being a game changer. Mayhap they think Solver wilt give Asgard an advantage or they doth want to use him to destroy Asgard." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2011-05-23 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	"An advantage in what? Cross-pantheon track meets? Shotgun-wedding prevention?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2011-05-24 12:13 am UTC (link)
	"Mayhap an advantage when there ist conflict," she said. "There ist usually conflicts between the pantheons." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)