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"I certainly don't have anything else to do today, dinner isn't for another couple of hours or so." Nadia said as she stood up and looked over at Runa and offered a hand to help her back up and smiled. "So, I think we should start with some shopping first and get you some gear as well." Nadia suggested as she dug into her pockets having a few Pennies in her pocket that they could use for anything that Runa wanted. Nadia turned and started to make her way out of Runa's room and started to head over towards the elevator, pressing floor five, once Klara and Runa entered the elevator door closed and it started to go down.

Once the elevator doors opened it revealed a rather large gift shop like area, similar to what IKEA would actually look like, though ten times bigger containing mainly a lot of Viking stuff, anything from weapons, to armor a few decorations in the room. And at the very far end would be a few Viking warships. Nadia looked around for a moment seeing Elizabeth was there and waved over at her, looking over at Runa. "Lets check out some weapons first." Nadia said as she headed into the weapon's aisle, every weapon you could imagine was there, as well Runa would be drawn to where the staves were located.

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"I'm way older than you are, so a little bit of respect missy." Arnora said sarcastically shaking her head slightly and laughed as she pushed herself off of the dock and their kayak started to move down the water. It started to go pretty slow until the current started to pick up, and the water became a lot rougher as Arnora. She expertly moved their kayak away from on an oncoming rock rather easily as Arnora saw a few low branches from a few treets, and threw her axe at them.

Watching her axe go flying through the air taking out a few of the branches until it came back flying into her hand easily catching it. The branches turned to ice and fell into the water as well, looking over at Dalisy and smirked at her showing off her skill a little bit. The water then started to get a lot more violent as Arnora used her power, turning the water ahead of them into ice and their kayak easily going over the ice. Daily would see a few more branches coming straight at her face now as well, some of the Einherjar in front of them getting decapitated by the branches and their kayak flipping over.

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"Of course my old crone of a friend. I shall differ to your greater age and infinite more wisdom." Dalisy gave the best mock bow that she could muster as they hit the ice that Arnora summoned. Dalisy quickly switched between the ore and the longbow. Her first arrow went high as they bounced over some ice. "I'd also prefer it if you kept the boat steady while I tried to save our heads." She said.

This time Dalisy paused and waited for the boat to rise. At its peak, she loosed the arrow and it took out the branches that threatened to remove their heads like the sad group of Einherjar ahead of them. "See that wasn't so hard, even with arthritis." Dalisy cracked a grin at Arnora over her shoulder. "Shall we continue this way. You steering and me defending?" She asked. It was a good division of labor.

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Runa nodded, not too sure whether or not to be concerned that Klara had gotten bored with killing people. It was the sort of thing she expected a psychopath to say. This entire afterlife was bewildering and when she had woken up that morning, all she had been planning was a fun day at the beach relaxing... not going to two different viking afterlives and discovering her father was the god Balder. She perked up slightly as Nadia mentioned shopping. Yes, it was stereotypical but Runa actually really enjoyed shopping. It was fun to see everything sparkling and new, to discover new outfits she hadn't thought of yet.

"Shopping sounds fun, but erm, I don't have any money," Runa admitted. She guessed that she could probably trade some of her rings and necklaces - did vikings value wiccan jewelry? That was a question she hadn't anticipated ever having. She followed Nadia, wondering also if there was some sort of credit system at Valhalla. They took the elevator down to the fifth floor, opening up into a mixture between a bazaar, IKEA, and a gift shop. Her eyes widened slightly, seeing the large assortment of items. There were weapons, armor, and even ships on sale.

She followed Nadia to the weapons area, staring at them all. There seemed to be an infinite number. She drifted over towards where the staves were located. She actually had learned how to fight with a staff - her karate instructor had taught her. Runa had really enjoyed her karate lessons - even though the white kids at school would mock her for them ruthlessly. It was cool for them to learn martial arts, but when Runa did it, it apparently was something silly and funny, something to ridicule her for.

Runa reached out, putting her hand on one of the staffs. It had an open circular top, with runic inscriptions carved all over it. It glowed very very faintly. She picked it up, before stepping away from Klara and Nadia. Runa rotated the staff through the air, spinning it around her own body as she turned. She then powerfully cut through the air with it, the staff ending by her side. "...I like this one."

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Fresh meat was in town, that's what Beth had heard, and far be it for her to not go have as much fun with that as possible. It wasn't every day that somebody new showed up after all, and she knew exactly where they'd be heading. She'd long since learned how to navigate the halls of this hotel, after the near millennia of walking them, she could even do it without her blindfold. Making her way down to the shop, she couldn't help but smile, it was hard to keep thing interesting in the afterlife, same thing day in and day out, it drove an old girl mad, but new things helped with that.

The gift shop may be big, but she had a very specific set of skills, one of which particularly helped her find people where it would normally be difficult. Sending out a ping, she could sense that there was a person who felt differently than anybody she'd met before. Making her way towards her, she could sense that she was trying out a weapon. "Careful with that, you'll put your eye out, trust me, I would know." Beth said, stepping out into the aisle, and lifting up her blindfold, to reveal burning flames where her eyes used to be, a wide grin on her face. She hoped she didn't scare the girl too much, but she'd been waiting for a chance to do that for a long time.

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Nadia watched as Runa was drawn over to where the staves were, seeing her picking up on of them she personally did prefer using her swords over any other weapons. She saw the staff that Runa had chosen, and watched her swing it around with precision and grace as well like it was apart of Runa's body. She let out a slight whistle it was really amazing to see not to many people did know how to use weapons unless you were a bit older, or had some kind of training before they died. "Wow, that was amazing." Nadia said giving Runa a smile as she turned her attention over towards the front of the aisle.

Nadia rolled her eyes slightly seeing her doing some weird magic trick with her eyes. "You know you might end up burning and melting your brain if you did that right Elizabeth?" Nadia said sarcastically, as she moved a little closer to Runa and gently rested a hand on the new girl's shoulder. "That's Elizabeth Flame, don't worry she's completely harmless." Nadia said giving her a slight smile.

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"Don't make me turn you into my own personal ice statue, you'd actually would make a lovely addition to my room that way to." Arnora said with a slight laugh as she nodded as she used her boating skills. And navigated them around and continued to ride through the rapids some, passing by some of the bodies of the dead Einherjar. Seeing their bodies floating away in the water and some of them being pulled under by the strong current. Arnora moved away from the rocks until they were now in much calmer waters and she moved the boat some, she noticed a canoe that was starting to sink and some dead Einherjar were there as well.

Though she recognized Lara was still alive and well and Arnora moved their canoe forward some and looked over at her and smiled offering her a hand. "Looks like you need a bit of help." Arnora said as she helped Lara into her and Dalisy's canoe and then pushed off and smiled at their new passenger. "So what happened to you?"

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"Ah, finally my exterior would match my interior." Dalisy knew she was cold-hearted. Her measuring stick was her other-selves. As long as she wasn't out there committing mass murder and enslaving people she figured she was good. Besides she was already dead. If she went deader there was no more afterlife. It wasn't like she had to worry about the great Christian God anymore.

When Arnora pulled Lara into the boat Dalisy considered pushing Lara back into the water. She hated the daughter of Tyr. Lara wasn't special in that sense. She scowled slightly, looking forward again with her longbow prepared to shoot any dangers they could not avoid. Before them were some logs and other such detritus. Nothing that Arnora couldn't avoid.

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"Yeah, figuring out a weapon for you definitely would be the best, weapons are always fun to look through, and some of the stuff that they have there is amazing!" Klara said with a giggle as she followed the other two off to the elevator, and down to the fifth floor where the shop area was located. There were a whole bunch of weapons to choose from, and Klara went to glance over towards the swords and other blades before she noticed Runa picking up a staff and started whirling around. That sort of caught her attention as she turned to look fully at Runa and she clapped her hands happily.

"That was so cool Runa! You'll definitely fit in here if you already know how to use a weapon of some kind. When I first got here I had no idea how to use a weapon properly, not even the knife that I used when I was killed I only had used to help my mother with cutting up foods, I had no idea how to use it correctly. But that is so cool!" she said with a smile as she looked over at Elizabeth. "Yeah, I'm with Nadia on that one Elizabeth, you should probably be a bit more careful with that. But wow that looks cool, it's amazing!" she said to her with a smile.

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So, Lara's day in Hotel Valhalla had not started well at all. Then some of the other Einherjar had wanted to go practicing down the rapids. What she had not counted on was the rest of her canoe getting distracted and some of them getting decapitated by the branches. Thankfully she had ducked in time and so, she had missed that, but without the person steering her canoe it soon crashed into the rocks and Lara had kept herself afloat long enough for another to rescue her.

"Hey Arnora, hey Dalisy..." She shivered a bit as she piled into the canoe and double checked herself to make sure she still had her bracelet and necklaces. Thankfully, both were still in place. "As for what happened... my canoe captain decided to look away at the wrong moment and they all lost their heads but me, and then crashed into the rocks. Do you need help defending or rowing, I figure it is the least I can do since you saved me from freezing or smashing into the rocks. Not a fun way to die." She winced a bit at that thought as she pulled the little spear pendant out from under her shirt.

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Runa wasn't usually a jumpy person - but then again, seeing a girl with burning flames in her eye sockets was not a typical affair. She screamed and her reflexes took over. There was a magic staff in her hands and she whacked Elizabeth across the side of the head, knocking the child of Loki unconscious. It took her a few seconds to really comprehend what had happened. Her heart was beating furiously as she stared at Elizabeth, her former foe crumpled on the floor. "Elizabeth... Flame...?" Runa repeated, staring at Nadia. "English names are so weird," she then murmured. She was white knuckling her staff, ready to whack anything else that jumped out at her.

She turned pink at Klara's compliments. "I, uh, took karate lessons," Runa explained. "Everyone in my family does for... well, I guess it's kinda obvious." She felt a bit uncomfortable at sharing that, even though she figured that neither Nadia or Klara would tease her for it. They seemed to be nice and kind, unlike the bullies at her school who would mock her nonstop, usually shouting Karate Kid quotes at her. "...So how can I pay for this? Is there like a credit system?" she asked, referring to her staff.

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"Oh come now, I'm far from ha-" She started to say, as she blinked, and let the flames from her eyes dissipate, only to be cut short as Runa knocked her the fuck out. As she slipped into unconsciousness, a juxtaposition of pride and unyielding rage overtook her. She liked this new girl, even as the world turned into an inky blackness, she resolved to have as much fun as she could with her. Her body hit the floor, rag dolling in the middle of the gift shop aisle.

Soon though, her mind was overtaken with a vision, where she was sitting in some throne room. In front of her sat a person who's visage was deeply troubling, half beautiful girl, half decrepit corpse. Staring at her for awhile, she cocked her head. It'd been awhile since she saw anybody properly, but she hoped that that wasn't how humans looked anymore. Thinking for a moment, it seemed like that might be Hel, but she'd need to research to be sure. Off in the corner, was a cell, and a shadowy figure in there, seemingly imprisoned. Stepping towards it, she recognized the imprisoned figure as the God of Love himself, Baldur. She was about to say something to him, but she drifted back towards consciousness before she had the chance. Her eye lids opening as she looked up towards the ceiling, she said, "Interesting... Very interesting." Her head pounding with pain from the crack she got on her head.

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"Well, we certainly don't have to worry about Elizabeth's brain getting melted, it's certainly scrambled now." Nadia said with a slight laugh, seeing a little bit of blood starting to pool over Elizabeth's head. She made her way over towards Elizabeth and kneeled down just as she started to wake up. She closed her eyes a bit, as a light started to come from her hands, and the small gash on Elizabeth's head started to heal up and stood up whiping her hands off.

"Ya might have a bit of a headache though just so you know." Nadia said turning her attention back at Runa and smiled. "I've got some pennies I can pay for it for you, you basically just get money of your own from doing activities around the hotel, or gambling to." Nadia said, though she didn't mention the whole dying thing since she saw Runa was still new and it was still understandable to be freaked out over everything. "So, got you a weapon did you want anything else, armor a shield or anything like that?" Nadia asked Runa.

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Arnora shook her head slightly at Dailsy's comment as Lara got into the canoe with them and pushed off and continued to head down the rapids, the water was still calm for now as she turned her attention over towards Lara. "Yeah death by beheading isn't really all that fun and that has happened to me so many times it's not even funny." Arnora said as she moved the boat avoiding a sharp rock jutting out of the water with ease. She had been dead for centuries now at this point and had pretty much experienced all kinds of death while in the Hotel, while participating in games To the Death.

"I can steer the canoe easily if you two want to work together." Arnora said looking at Dailsy and Lara, knowing that the two of them hated each other's guts. It'll be a nice little training exercise with them to get them to work together as well as the water started to get rougher now, and then there were more low branches that were coming their way. "So you two be nice and start working together." Arnora said as she moved in between the rocks.

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"Maybe you should stop putting your head in places where it could be removed." Dalisy said to Arnora. She was torn between shooting Lara to be done with her and ignoring Lara completely. Dalisy kept her eyes on the river in front of them. Scanning for obstacles.

If she pretended, she could imagine the woman beside her was Niah. They didn't look anything alike, but their personality was so similar it hurt. Dalisy shifted in her seat toward the front of the canoe. "There is my oar from earlier if you need something to push." Her voice was tight. She found difficulty in even sounding nice. The oar could be useful if a log or other such detritus got to close to the canoe, but wasn't something they could avoid.

There were several branches that threatened their heads. Dalisy took aim and shot out the biggest ones. Hopefully, the others could be avoided, or maybe Lara would be useful and take them out. She just couldn't fire enough arrows to take out all of the branches. Dalisy scrunched down in her seat hoping that she would keep her own head from being hit by any of the branches that they failed to take out or avoid.

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Klara couldn't help but giggle at Runa just whacking Elizabeth with the staff as if she was someone who actually was attacking her. "Alright, I'll admit it, that was definitely a great way to get back at her for her trying to scare you or freak you out. Don't worry about her Runa... And yeah, her brain probably is scrambled if it wasn't before, so that's always hilarious. But anyway, nice shot Runa!" she said happily, looking over at Elizabeth on the ground with a bit of a laugh, shaking her head as after a few moments the girl seemed to be coming around fairly quickly.

"Remember, you've got to be careful when it comes to pulling pranks, there is an art to it where you don't get attacked by someone, just saying," she added towards Elizabeth, turning to look at Runa again. It was a pretty well known fact that Klara was a bit of a prankster around the hotel, so she had a long time to figure out the proper way to prank people and not get beheaded or something since she did stuff like that fairly often. "Yeah, some armor would probably be beneficial, since you know, you are surrounded by a bunch of people who are warriors and probably would hit you right back after something like that, just warning you if my comment about pranking people and getting hurt wasn't a bit obvious... Since a lot of people tend to hit harder then you'd think..."

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Runa was getting horrible vibes from Elizabeth. Not only did the girl with the surname Flame have flames for eyes, she commented on her reaction being interesting like some sort of psychopath. Nadia was nicer than Runa would have been, stooping down and healing Elizabeth's wounds. Runa couldn't help but be a bit stunned, seeing the injury fade away as if Runa hadn't hit Elizabeth with her staff. Everything had been so bizarre so far, yet the small simple act of real magic was breathtaking. It was more real and vibrant than anything she had been able to do through wicca, which largely amounted to setting intentions and hoping the universe would provide. She blushed as Klara praised her for her hit.

"Pennies?" Runa asked, a bit confused. She had no idea what sort of currency that was - maybe it was some sort of precious gem they used as money here. In Norway, they used kroner and øre, although the øre were only used digitally. The øre was just too small a currency to really warrant using in day to day life. "Erm, yes... Armor would be nice," Runa said quietly. The gift shop / Viking IKEA layout wasn't too difficult to navigate and she went to the armor aisle. She spotted one piece of armor that didn't look half bad and when she picked it up, it transformed into a leather jacket and her eyes widened in shock. She slipped off her ripped black army jacket and put on the leather jacket, finding that it fit her perfectly.

She felt a bit guilty, keeping the secret of what she had seen on her way in from Nadia and Klara. They were both super sweet and helpful. Maybe once they were somewhere more private, without crazy girls with flames for eyes, she would share what she had seen.

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Lara was about to tell Arnora that would be nice to Dalisy when the other started being nice to her, but this was not the moment at all to be saying that. Especially when her feet betrayed her a bit and she nearly stumbled as she took the oar from Dalisy and sat down. "Thanks... but I prefer to use my spear when it comes to pushing things out of the way." Thankfully, her trusty spear had been in it's handy travel size when she had nearly gotten lost in the rapids, so she tugged it out from under her shirt, giving them both an accidental glimpse of the ring she normally tried to hide.

With a mutter of the magic word, the small pendant grew in Lara's hands and became her trusty spear, which she immediately swung up to cut down a branch that was about the be a problem for the three of them. "There we go, I can help get rid of obstacles in both the water and the trees this way." She smiled at that as she looked over at Dalisy and then the smile faded.

The other woman had not like Lara since she had arrived at the Hotel, and it still puzzled Lara to this day why Dalisy hated her guts when Lara had barely spoken two words to her. Then there was the other mystery of how friendly Dalisy was with Arnora, when Lara herself was friendly with her, and it did not seem like Dalisy and Arnora had much in common. But well... only Odin knew sometimes why things were the way they were.

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Righting herself up, Elizabeth rubbed her temples, Trying to make sense of everything she had just seen. Turning her head towards Klara, she furrowed her brow, "I didn't expect new girl to bash my head in, shoot me. In my day, we had a modicum of respect for the blind." One thing she did miss, was the ability for here to roll her eyes, which she would very much be doing right now if she could. Rubbing her head, she looked at Runa and said, "Nice reaction time, that'll serve you well here. Flame's the name, no hard feelings about the concussion. Promise." She said, trying to be nicer to the girl, since she seemed like the take no shit kinda person.

She frowned, before saying, "On the downside, I think the world might be ending. Pity." She crossed her arms. That vision, if she recalled correctly, it was one of the events leading up to Ragnorak, the capture of Baldur, "I had a vision, when the new girl knocked me out. Hel's captured the god of love, or I just had a weird dream. 50/50 shot. That's how Ragnarok's supposed to start, right?" She exhaled, not wanting terribly to have to deal with that, but if it was happening, she'd have to do what she could to prevent it. Hoping her fellow residents had some thoughts on the matter, she leaned against the Aisle, waiting for them to respond.

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"Well everyone is a little bit jumpy on their first day of coming back to life in the Viking afterlife as well, I was, so it's kind of justified." Nadia said giving a slight shrug, she had only been dead for the last two years or so. She followed shortly behind Runa towards where the armors were located, she was currently wearing some leather armor that her friend Arnora had made her which fitted really well and comfortable as well to. She watched as Runa picked out a set of armor which magically turned into a black leather jacket she gave Runa a smile as she pulled out a small bag filled with coins.

She held one out to her and smiled, it was silver in color, and had the face of Odin on one side, and the Valknut symbol on the other side as well. "That's the main currency here really, not to get confused with the penny back home in the States really." Nadia said as she handed a small handful of them over towards her. Nadia turned to look at Elizabeth giving her a little bit of a confused look, Balder was thought to be dead. "But Balder is dead, if you have paid attention to Norse Mythology." Nadia said giving a slight shrug, she wasn't sure if Elizabeth saw was something true or not, but sometimes you did get some weird dreams as well.

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Arnora looked at Dailsy and shook her head slightly as she continued to row their canoe further down the rapids, the water was getting a little bit rougher now as another canoe with a group of three other Einherjar, came up. She didn't really recognize any of them since there were a lot of Einherjar inside of Valhalla, they looked over at the three ladies and smirked at them, one of them was holding a spear and threw it into their canoe creating a rather large hole in it as well as water started to quickly fill it up. "Bye ladies." One of them started to laugh as they started to get further away from them.

Arnora started to feel water filing up the bottom of the canoe and dying in the rapids was never a really fun thing she looked at the two of them. "You guys might want to keep your feet out of the water." Arnora said as she yanked the spear out, Arnora rested her hand where the hole was filling up with water and the water instantly started to freeze over. Though it started to add some weight to their canoe as well, hopefully they would be able to get back safely. "Dalisy or Lara can you guys take them out for me?" Arnora asked as she inspected the canoe for any other leaks.

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"Yeah, what Nadia said, but then again I have no idea what other sort of pennies there are, since I lived in what is now the United States, before it even really existed," Klara commented, nodding her head along with what Nadia was saying to Runa as she followed along over to the armor section of the store, as she found something that fit her, and she had to say that the jacket was kind of cool looking. "Alright, gotta admit, that jacket looks really cute," she told her with a smile before her attention turned to looking over at Elizabeth again as she started spouting about Baldur or something not being dead or something.

"Or maybe you hit your head a bit too hard when you fell to the ground," she commented towards Elizabeth with a similar confused look to the look that Nadia had. "I mean... It's like what Nadia said... Baldur is dead, and last I checked, kind of has been for a while. Not to mention I understand what you are referring to, at least when it comes to events, since if I remember correctly Hel didn't really "capture" him, when he was killed he went to her realm. If everyone in the world weeped for him, then she would allow him to return to the land of the living, but since that didn't happen, that is where he stayed. Though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about that..."

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Dalisy pulled her feet up and tucked them under so she was in a three-point stance on the seat of the canoe. That kept her feet out of the water and made sure she was balanced enough so she could take a shot at the three Einherjar ladies that had attacked them. The first shot still went wild, the next two found their homes in the women. One killing and knocking the woman out of the boat. The other only hurting her. Dalisy smiled to herself.

She figured Lara would have a harder time with her spear. She might be able to take out the boat itself though. So Dalisy turned and faced the oncoming issues letting Lara handle that as if she was gifting her the others. Though, Dalisy knew that if Lara upstaged her she would be irritated. She wished she had let Lara go first, but it was too late.

"What is it about your face that people are attacking our canoe? Or did they just figure it would be easy since the canoe is older than most people who are enjoying their afterlife?" Dalisy asked over her shoulder. It was mostly directed at Arnora as a joke, but a part of her hoped that Lara would take it wrong and make a big deal out of it.

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Runa nodded at Elizabeth's introduction. She had to wonder how old Elizabeth actually was. The flames for eyes was still a bit concerning, although they hadn't returned, yet Runa was keeping her guard up so to speak. She wasn't sure if she could die permanently at any point here, she didn't want to push her luck. She also was afraid that even the temporary death that seemed to happen here would hurt. Like most people, she had an aversion to pain... most of the time. Runa put her right hand on her left arm, knowing the scars concealed by the jacket, all self inflicted. "I'm Runa Johansson," she said quietly.

Her anxiety levels heightened as Elizabeth started talking about Balder and Hel. While a few moments ago she had been considering telling Nadia and Klara what she had learned when she died, Runa's instincts now told her to double down on her silence. They were dismissing what Elizabeth said about Balder being alive anyways. From what they said, it should have been impossible for Balder to be her father. Maybe the Gatekeeper she had seen was wrong, playing a cruel joke. Runa relaxed a bit at that idea. Her father, the god of love? It was silly to think about. Her actual father was probably just... just an ordinary man who left her mother.

But there was also the fate of the world to contend with, inspiring self doubt. Was this really her secret to keep? What if not telling this caused everyone to die? Runa's eyes started watering up with tears at the thought that she could be responsible for that much suffering. They wouldn't believe her though. Even if she tried to help the world, it would be a doomed effort. It was a cosmic joke. She took the money from Nadia and bolted, throwing the pennies down on the counter since even upset, she didn't want to shoplift.

She ran, tears flowing rapidly like a geyser erupting. Runa blindly dashed into the elevator, pressing a button at random, and she stumbled out onto a floor and just kept on running, trying to find someplace to hide.