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Loki is not technically banished. This is just - giving her mother space. To think. About what to do with her wayward child. She will be called back in a few years for a more permanent decision. Midgard's nice enough, anyway, and Sigyn's coming along.
The Bifrost lights up in all its colors and -
- this might be Midgard, but it is not a part of Midgard she ever saw and not the place she was expecting to be dropped, and there is no Sigyn with her.
She holds Lævateinn ready as a glaive. Maybe her mother feared her sorcery and thought she'd best be sent somewhere deadly under the impression she was meant to survive the trip -
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purposeful_glory
"Right. Well, it seems you should join us. We mostly know where not to step, and I can't really offer to share food but I can share suggestions on finding it. And you'll be much safer on the other side if you don't arrive alone."
purposeful_glory
"I can if necessary do without food. Not comfortably, but indefinitely. You think they'd attack a lone stranger?"
"There are... two different hostile groups on the other side. One certainly would; one probably wouldn't. And you can go without food indefinitely? How is that?" The only conceivable answer to that was "I'm not really incarnate", but she wasn't a Vala, she didn't act like one either -
purposeful_glory
"Unorthodox applications of magic. For that matter, I can do this for others as well, although I really cannot recommend it as an alternative to any sort of nourishment."
"Well, nourishment's not really what it's an alternative /to/. How many others?"
purposeful_glory
Shrug. "As many as I can touch - I don't know how quickly your people normally starve; I cannot improve them much beyond that with a healing spell."
"Slowly. We can go a few months without food, if needed. You could - you could keep everybody alive that way." Strangers she's never met - "would you?"
purposeful_glory
"...I have some misgivings about providing this service to one side of a conflict I know little about but I have no reason to actually want you and yours dead and no other pressing engagements, so."
"We're more than half noncombatants." He hesitates. "Though, truthfully, if you stopped them from starving they'd probably give us their extra food, so - I can promise to not benefit in any way from aid you give our civilians? I just don't know how I'd scale that."
purposeful_glory
"I would need reasons to dislike you that I do not currently have to make such a condition."
"Well. Thank you. Really, sincerely, I don't know if you know what it's like to watch people who trust you slowly starve to death, but - thank you. You should meet my father, he needs to know this right away - I mean, if you don't mind - it's just that there are people who actually might die today while we're figuring out logistics."
The camp hasn't advanced very far by the time they reach them. Oh, right, because he'd called for a headcount. "Father," Findekáno says, "there was someone out there, and you need to meet her."
"Nolofinwë," he says, "it's a pleasure." And privately, with his thoughts, Finno, I don't like this.
You will, just listen.
I'm listening. But in the meantime - you went out alone and came back convinced that a stranger with no reason at all to be there needed to meet me immediately.
Yeah, he thinks, I realize.
Will you hand your weapon to Turukáno until I decide what's going on? It's not really a request.
There's no power Findekáno knows of who can command someone's mind in the space of a five minute conversation, but he complies.
"Nolofinwë," he says, "it's a pleasure." And privately, with his thoughts, Finno, I don't like this.
You will, just listen.
I'm listening. But in the meantime - you went out alone and came back convinced that a stranger with no reason at all to be there needed to meet me immediately.
Yeah, he thinks, I realize.
Will you hand your weapon to Turukáno until I decide what's going on? It's not really a request.
There's no power Findekáno knows of who can command someone's mind in the space of a five minute conversation, but he complies.
purposeful_glory
Loki observes this but does not know the local mores on weapon handling and doesn't comment. "Hello. I'm Loki Odinsdottir of Asgard."
"Hello," he says. "Are we in Asgard's territory?"
purposeful_glory
"No. I am very lost for unclear reasons and cannot get home."
"My condolences."
"Father," Findekáno says, "she can stop people from dying of cold or hunger."
He blinks. Otherwise he doesn't visibly react at all. Several people present suddenly find themselves busily occupied, though. "is that true, Loki Odinsdottir?"
"Father," Findekáno says, "she can stop people from dying of cold or hunger."
He blinks. Otherwise he doesn't visibly react at all. Several people present suddenly find themselves busily occupied, though. "is that true, Loki Odinsdottir?"
purposeful_glory
"I cannot improve on anyone's comfort much. And I can do it only as fast as I can touch them. But I have a healing spell which will put someone in a state of 'not starving' and 'not, at that moment, freezing' - even if they then resume starving and freezing in short order."
He swallows. "That could save quite a few lives. And you're - willing to assist us, in that manner?"
"Then I will ask my people if there are any among them who would like to try it, and we'll keep them under observation and see what happens." He nods to someone who is already scurrying off. "In the meantime, you can imagine I have many, many questions."
"What are you?"
He sighs. "All right. Asgardians - are you typical of them? Can all of them heal starvation or sickness with a touch, for example? How many of them are there? How would I recognize one, if I met them?