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"It would be helpful if she was on this floor, since it would mean no more going on a scavenger hunt for people, since this is getting a bit ridiculous. Going on a hunt to find someone so that we can find someone else, a little bit confusing and chaotic if you ask me," Klara commented towards Nadia before she also commented about pranking Elizabeth later to get back at her, causing her to giggle a little bit. "I'm perfectly fine with that, problem is we'd have to get a little bit creative since what would startle normal people wouldn't really cause her to flinch all too much," she pointed out with a shrug, following along after her.

She let out a bit of a sigh when she didn't seem to see Arnora anywhere, and like Nadia she turned back to look back towards the elevator which popped up again, revealing Arnora. "Yeah, anything you could do would help, she got startled off by Elizabeth, so if you can at least tell us where she might have went that would be nice," Klara said to her, giving Arnora a smile before Arnora spoke, telling them what floor Runa was likely on. "Alright, thanks for that Arnora, come on Nadia, let's see if we can find Runa," she said, before she stepped into the elevator again, ready to get going to Floor 472.

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Hotel Valhalla: Floor 5:

There was a bell sound, and then a few seconds later there was Helgi's voice going over the hotel's radio system. "Dinner will be starting in a few minutes, head over to the Feast Hall of the Slain." Helgi said, before there was silence again, the Einherjar that were in the gift shops suddenly turned, finishing up their purchases and made their way over towards the elevator for dinner. Sometimes things were chaotic as some people fought in order to get to dinner.

Hotel Valhalla: Floor 233:

Lara would hear the same exact announcement that dinner was going to be starting soon, she would hear some footstep outside of her room making their way towards the elevator to get to the Feast Hall of the Slain. There was also some yelling as people demanded to get onto the elevator as well, as it got over crowded rather quickly.

Hotel Valhalla: Floor 301:

Dalisy would also hear the same announcement for dinner and then the usual chaos that would go on with people fighting their way onto the elevator to get to the Feast Hall. As well as what sounded like a sword smashing against someone, and someone screaming out in pain as well. The usual chaos that went with whenever dinner was being announced.

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Loki gave Runa a slight frown, though that quickly faded as he stood up again as he took a few steps forward overlooking the crowd and racetrack below for a moment before turning around to face her. "You may not owe him anything that is true, but he is the only family that you have left. You cant go back to Midgard to see your family again, and only I know where he is right now." Loki said as he turned around to look at her and smiled again. "I can reunite you with him, if you want to come to the 540th floor of the Hotel at midnight I will be seeing you again very soon." Loki said before he vanished out of sight again leaving Runa alone again, when Runa heard the dinner announcement.

"Thanks for the directions Arnora, you can come with to if you want to." Nadia said as she smiled, and started to make her way into the elevator as well, Arnora gave a slight shrug she didn't really have anything else to do right now either as she heard the dinner announcement as well. But searching around the place for a new arrival would be interesting as well, to she smirked a little bit to herself when mentioning of pranking Elizabeth.

"If you are pranking her I would want in as well to, it would be fun." Arnora said giving a slight smirk at the idea remembering the little prank that she, Asha and Klara did on Hunding the Hotel's manager a few years ago with an army of goats that was really entertaining. Nadia pressed the button for Floor 472, as the elevator started to go up, and occasionally stopping at a few floors to let other Einherjar on as well. Eventually making it over to Floor 472, Nadia and Arnora got off letting the others on, the area was starting to empty now as well.

Nadia started to look around, before finding Runa over in the stands by herself and started to make her way over towards her hoping that Runa wouldn't run off again. "Hey, Runa are you alright?" Nadia asked, as Arnora followed but kept her distance she knew that overcrowding a new person wasn't really the best thing. "I'm Arnora it's nice to meet you by the way." Arnora said giving her a slight smile.

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Dalisy sighed, well so much for the time to take a shower or anything. She'd never get a good seat if she spent the time changing even. Dalisy stood up and joined the chaotic fray of people shoving for a spot on the elevator. Whoever thought a single elevator for all of Valhalla was a good idea needed to be flayed.

Making her to the elevator and onto it was a surprisingly easy feat. Finally, she had a way to burn off some of the growing stress. She pushed her way and even took someone's legs out from underneath him, but she got a spot. That didn't always happen, each day seemed a toss of the dice. Now she just had to keep the spot. She made sure she wasn't the closest to the door before it opened again. That could at least keep her on it long enough to get close to the Hall.

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She didn't miss the frown that flashed across Loki's face. It may have only been a few seconds, but the image was seared into Runa's mind. He didn't like her answer. He was hiding something. He seemed pretty desperately to want her to go after Balder - and admittedly, the fear of being responsible for the end of the world was a good motivator. But if Loki was so keen on having her go after him, she was pretty sure there was some sort of trap in store. He didn't seem trustworthy. He reminded her of the bullies at school that would pretend to be her friend at first, only to then steal her stuff and hide them in the net of the basketball hoop. "I don't need to have anyone. I like being alone," she said quietly, just before Loki vanished.

She was lying of course - she missed her mother dearly already. She even missed her step-father. She had the floor number and time Loki gave her committed to memory already, her emotions betraying the facade she had tried to present to the god. Runa tilted her head slightly as the dinner announcement rang. Had she been in the hotel that long already? Did time move differently here? She couldn't be certain. She wanted to take some time to herself to process everything, maybe make a pro and con list in order to figure out the choice to make, but Fate had other plans for her. Nadia and the others had found her.

"I'm f-fine. I just... I just needed to be alone for a little bit."

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Lara looked up as she heard the call to dinner and got up with a groan. So much for getting a shower and changing before dinner. Thankfully, the dead cared less about appearances sometimes. So, she simply untied her hair and let it fall down and then got up and headed out of the hallway and towards the now swarmed elevator. She frowned as she looked at it and let out a sigh. She moved and shoved her way through the throngs of people until she managed to wiggle her way into the tiny box and waited for the big doors to slam shut and take them on their way to the dining hall.

Tight spaces were nothing new to Lara. She had gotten use to the elevator quickly in her time in the Hotel, but it also reminded her of a different time. Without thinking her hand wrapped around her necklace and she fidgeted with the little silver star on her necklace. She had planned to convert...

She let her mind slip back to the small room, always smelling of books. Levi loved books almost as much as he loved her. He would have loved knowing that the old Nordic Myths were true...

Lara mentally slapped herself. Why was she dwelling on this so much today? Was her formerly mortal mind trying to remind her of some important date? She wasn't sure anymore about what was going on. When the elevator dinged for the dining room floor, she shoved her way out and went to go see if she could find either Arnora or Klara. She could use a friend.

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As the bell Rang, Elizabeth cracked her gingers and said, "Dinner denotes dastardly diatribes directed down, Thanes that think they they themselves," She paused for a moment, thinking for a way to continue her alliterative spree as she walked towards the dining hall, "Say something significant, shall see some sad surprise." Linguistics were very much her strong suit, and she mostly liked to come up with ways to say things in such a way to pass the time. If there was one constant thing in her life, it was that, though the words may change, language always existed in one form or another.

One of the advantages of being blind was that those who didn't know her, and were particularly sappy, would often let her go first in crowded spaces, thinking she couldn't defend herself as well as the others. Squeezing her way into an elevator, she leaned against the wall, and waited for it to bring her up to the hall. She wasn't particularly hungry, she was more focused on just getting this news to the thanes. She proffered her own cooking to the dining hall's food, something about making something and getting to taste that effort just meant a lot to her.

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"Oh I do hope that she doesn't wind up in trouble or getting beheaded already, that would definitely be a horrible way to start things off, especially considering that scare that Elizabeth gave her, that was a bit ridiculous still," Klara said as she followed Nadia back into the elevator and looked over at Arnora and gave her a bit of a mischievous smile when she said she would want to join in on the pranking of Elizabeth. "Well then maybe we should put our heads together and come up with a fantastic one. Though gonna say, the goat army was a pretty great one and I'll likely never be able to achieve that greatness with a prank ever again!"

She waited for the elevator to eventually reach their new destination, and she stepped out of the elevator and glanced around, before spotting Runa, smiling a bit at her. "Hey there, are you okay?" she asked her, her voice sounding a bit concerned regarding everything else. Listening to Runa say that she was fine, she nodded her head at her. That was the sort of thing most people who just got there would do. Wanting to be alone in an attempt to process everything was just a normal reaction. "I'm glad you're okay though, and wanting to be alone is a normal reaction to everything. Just the way you raced off, was a little worrying..." she said with a smile towards her.

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Hotel Valhalla: Feast Hall of the Slain:

The Feast Hall of the Slain was always really busy during dinner time always as the room quickly started to fill up with Einherjar all from various parts throughout time as well. Valkyries were all busy tending to Einherjar, refilling up their drinks before flying away as well. Lara, Elizabeth and Dalisy were both in the same elevator as the door opened up for them as well, the room was really loud as well with people talking.

The Thane's table was at the other end of the room with some of the famous people in history, they all were just getting ready to sit down as well, the Thanes were Crispus Attucks who was an escaped slave who was the first person killed during the Boston Massacre, Davy Crockett who was a frontiersman and folk hero. Ernie Pyle a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Erik Bloodax who as a Norwegian ruler Erik the Red a Viking who was the founder of Greenland's first settlement, James Bowie who was a pioneer and folk hero. Leif Erikson who an Icelandic explorer who discovered North America.

Lord Nelson who was a British Flag Officer in the Royal Navy, Lord Ottar Snorri Sturluso who was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. As well as Hotel Valhalla's manager Helgi himself. At the center of their table stood an empty chair with a black crow perched up on one of the chair's arms overlooking the growing crowd.

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Arnora looked at Klara and smirked when she mentioned the army of Goats prank on Helgi was still really funny and entertaining to see in person she really did miss that prank. "Out of all the years I've been here that has probably been the most entertaining prank of all time." Arnora said looking over at Runa, who looked to be really stressed out and shy as well being here was really stressful at first as well as Arnora thought of something, she had been in Valhalla the longest as well.

Nadia closed her eyes for a moment letting out a slight sigh in relief that she was alright, though Runa running off like that was a little bit worrying as well. "I'm glad you are alright, and I understand it's really hard." Nadia said, though why the gokart floor was a really weird place to try and be alone. Runa did have her room after all as well, or maybe being there brought up to many memories of her former life Nadia wasn't really sure. "Dinner has started, if you are hungry at all we can help get you there. Or if you want we can smuggle some food up to your room so you can still relax or something." She offered.

"Hey, if you'd like I could take you to Midgard for a little bit." Arnora offered looking over at Runa she knew a way or two out of the Hotel and she had gone off on her own and with a few others in the past as well. Though Arnora hadn't met the girl up until now as well, and by the looks of it she didn't like to be bombarded with people. Though if Runa ran off for whatever reason again could be a bad thing as well Nadia thought, she did occasionally sneak out with Arnora in the past as well.

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Dalisy sighed a small breath of relief as she exited the elevator. She saw Elizabeth and poked her in the side lightly. "Hey Beth. Find any trouble today?" She asked, mostly as a joke. It was not the first time she had said it to her. "You'll find there may be rumors about me gaining something resembling kindness as I didn't drown Lara in the river today. Unfortunately, they are true."

Dalisy, wondering if Arnora had beat her to the Hall and had already found a seat, let her power from her Father look for her. Arnora was up at the go-carts with Klara, Nadia, and some girl Dalisy didn't recognize. "Weird." She said half under her breath. "Anyway, want to sit with me for dinner?" She asked Beth, before finding a seat. There was room if Beth decided to sit with her.

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Runa stared at Klara, her heart pounding as seconds felt like they stretched out into years. She didn't know what to say to answer her. And the longer she thought about what exactly to say, the more awkward the fact she wasn't saying anything had become - it was an exponential increase, a growth of awkwardness. Eventually, she decided for an incredibly belated nod, although Runa was pretty sure Klara must have thought she was an idiot or a freak with a language impediment. Maybe she should have been playing dumb this entire time - she could have claimed to only speak Norwegian even and not understand a word of English.

"Uh..." Runa squeaked, trying to decide what to do. So many things were coming at her, so many choices to make. Some of them were small - did she want to eat around a bunch of bloodthirsty strangers, eat in her room, or sneak off to another plane of existence? Others were larger - should she trust Loki and try to save her father and by extension the world from complete destruction? Going down to Earth had the definite benefit that she could avoid the hungry and hangry murderers in the dining hall - or Food Court - or whatever it was that they had here. She could also bolt more easily she had to imagine. At least on Earth, things made sense and she could just dash onto a bus. "...Earth would be nice."

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Lara stepped off the elevator and then sighed a bit as she looked around and did not see Klara nor Arnora at that moment of time. She frowned a bit at that as she had wanted to see her friends, but well maybe she would go sit with her fellow floor mates and enjoy talking with them over dinner. She did look up and spotted that there were Valkyries there, which wasn't uncommon, but one of them seemed excited for some reason, a huge grin plastered on her face. Lara had to wonder if that meant that someone new would be joining them.

Lara still remembered her own feast with clarity, even though that had been nearly eighty Midgard years ago... It would be eighty soon, that she knew. It had been over seventy years and each year that passed it just hurt a little less. Meeting others like her had helped, and even meeting her father the one time had helped her.

She shifted a bit as she tried to look around for the new face, wanting to greet and welcome them. She would happily invite them to live on her floor if they did not have a room yet.

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"Hey, don't discount the goats, but it was waaaay too much fun to do it," she said with a giggle, still thinking back on the memory. She looked over at Nadia as she mentioned something about dinner starting and maybe them going down to get some food, or maybe sneaking some up to Runa in her room later. The food at the hotel was pretty good, but given how Runa seemed to be as a person, she probably wouldn't want to go into the feast hall. It probably would be better off for her to just try and get used to being at the hotel in general.

When Arnora suggested maybe sneaking out to go to Earth, Klara was perfectly fine with the idea of maybe going back to Earth. It had been a while since she had run around on Midgard, though there were a few concerns relating to it, since she wasn't sure if Runa would run off or not again, and her being lost on Midgard could end badly. Though she would hope that Arnora would be able to keep a decent eye on Runa if she was offering to take her to Earth. "An adventure to Earth wouldn't be too bad I don't think," she commented, looking over at Runa who had said that she wanted to go to Earth.

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Beth turned her head as she was poked, that being more of an instinctual thing than anything else, to face those talking to you. It didn't very much matter, as she was physically incapable of eye contact, but it made people more uncomfortable to have somebody looking away from them and talking than facing them and talking with their eyes shut. Beth had, luckily, gotten very good at recognizing voices, and knew Miss Bautista was the one prodding for her attention. Dismounting the elevator, she teasingly said, "Sounds like you're going soft and calling it kindness." In reality, she knew there was a deep difference between those two things, but she'd be damned if she just handed advice out.

"While I'd love to join you, I'm sure with this new leaf you're turning over you'd just be puppies and rainbows to have dinner with, the world is unfortunately ending, and the Thanes may care about that." She said matter-of-factly, but did continue to say, "Save me a seat though, I'll be back over shortly." And with that, she broke off from Dalisy, and headed towards the Thane's table. Not too much of a fan on the Americans, she opted to talk to Leif Erikson, "I've received a vision, Ragnarok is coming, Hel has captured Baldur in Eljudnir, you might want to do something about that." She dryly remarked.

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Hotel Valhalla: Feast Hall of the Slain:

Both Lara and Dalisy would notice Elizabeth making her way over towards the Thane's table, they were all talking amongst themselves over something, when Leif turned his attention over towards her raising an eyebrow when she mentioned Balder and Ragnarok. He looked towards the other Thanes for a moment. To them it kind of sounded a bit far fetched since there wasn't really any kind of proof at what Elizabeth was actually saying. "Do you have any proof on what you claim is actually true daughter of Loki?" One of them asked, as the Thanes whispered amongst themselves

One of Lara's floormates gently tapped her on the shoulder, he was a younger guy by the name of John who had been dead for around ten years or so now. "How has your day been?" The room started to slowly fill in now as the some of the stragglers were starting to come through now as well, Dalisy would be able to see a couple one of them with long blonde hair, and another with green hair talking to each other with a few others as well.

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"Cool, though we would have to do it sometime after dinner though. Since it's your first day here you'll have to be in the Feast Hall the Thanes need to get a look at you. They would have to reshow your death however, and see if you have a godly parent or not. But other than that the rest of the evening is yours." Arnora said to Runa, she wasn't sure how Runa would react to seeing her death again or not usually they are pretty gruesome as well. Nadia nodded slightly forgetting about that as well, shuddering slightly before she was claimed by her parent.

"I'll be close by whenever they do show that, it really isnt a pretty sight either." Nadia offered hoping that would comfort Runa a little bit and just wanted the girl to feel more at home here as well. "Lets do that right after dinner then it's usually pretty crazy down there and no one will notice us sneaking out after that." Nadia said as she looked the room there were a few stragglers there as well as they made their way towards the elevators.

"Anyway, just seek me out i'll be around the feast hall whenever you want to get out of here." Arnora said as she turned and started to make her way over towards the elevator, Nadia looked at Klara then at Runa. "We should get going to." Nadia said as she turned and quickly followed Arnora to the elevator.

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"Honestly, how dare you insult me in such a way. And yeah I'll save you a seat. Good luck. I'm ready, end of the world bring it on." Dalisy said as she and Beth went separate ways. She wasn't surprised that Beth knew it was her. Though the idea of the end of the world was not particularly pleasant. As much as she had joked. She didn't want to have to fight a battle she knew she would lose.

She watched as people entered the hall filling it. There was always enough room, but yet there was only one elevator. An oversight that drove her nuts. Dalisy was fond of people watching. A pair of people caught her eye, maybe it was the green hair. Then it clicked who she was seeing. Magnus Chase and Alex Fierro. Alex was a child of Loki, half-sibling of Beth, and Magnus was a son of Frey, half-brother of Nadia. Yuck. Yuck about Nadia. Not about Chase. Well that wasn't totally true Chase had become something of a superstar and she hated that.

Dalisy let her gaze drift off of the pair of them, as if she hadn't been thinking about how annoying Chase's half-sister was. She watched for maybe Arnora, though considering she had seen Arnora with Nadia she decided she wasn't going to get her friend's attention when she joined them in the Hall. That would just be inviting for stabbing time. After being called soft by Beth that seemed like a fun idea though.

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Runa wasn't sure whether to be happy or hurt that so many people wanted to go on this trip to Earth. She hadn't considered the possibility that they were trying to be friendly really, more feeling like they were trying to babysit her or prevent her from escaping - which to be fair, that was her plan so far. She wanted to go to Earth in order to run away from her problems. She couldn't be blamed for the destruction of the universe if they couldn't find her. And it was so much easier to run away from things rather than face them. As a teenager with depression, it pretty much was her go to strategy - her arms told that story with the scars.

She froze though as Arnora explained that she would actually have to go to dinner - and not only that, but everyone would be able to watch the most traumatic moment of her life (or death?) and learn the identity of her parents. Her blood felt like liquid nitrogen. Her nerves were shot. Her eyes darted rapidly as she tried to figure out a place to run to, a way to hide. If people knew she was the daughter of Balder, then they'd be able to blame her when the world died for not saying anything. But it was definitely too late right to come clean and say what she had seen? They'd probably all assume that she had taken Loki's deal or something and that she was working with the enemy.

"...I'm allergic to crowds..." Runa blurted, not quite sure she used the correct English word but it made sense to her. She remained rooted in place, not moving to the elevator.

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"John, good to see you." Lara was glad for the distraction for the moment at that point, since her mind kept wandering back towards other things. "My day went well, went to the Rapids for a bit and managed to survive. What about you? Did you do anything interesting? Did I miss anything of note?" She smiled a bit at that as she settled down at the table and then looked around a bit at that point.

She was getting a bit worried at that point that she hadn't seen Arnora or Klara at that point, but she doubted they would miss dinner. Though something was feeling odd to her at that point. She swore she saw Elizabeth work her way towards the Thanes, and then she looked off to the side and back to John. Maybe the fact that something was going on, maybe that's why she had been distracted all day. She had no idea truly why she had been fixated on the past that day.

"Hmmm... I do wonder what is going on..." She mused aloud and then sighed a bit as she leaned up against the table. She was getting hungry again. Dinner would be welcome at that point and it would help her push the thoughts out of her mind.

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"I mean, yeah, sadly no ditching this time around. You kind of get used to this sort of thing, every now and then there is an instance where you can't skip out on something. Guess we should probably head down that way," she said with a slight sigh, preferring to much rather go on an adventure then sit around in a room with a bunch of vikings. Though usually there was some sort of interesting affair happening, like if a fight broke out. That always made for some quick entertainment. If she really wanted to mess with people she would sneak around and pull a few pranks, but not right now.

Klara went to make her way towards the elevators after the others when she noticed Runa wasn't exactly following, and the words that she blurted out. A part of her wanted to giggle slightly at her words, but she went against it, knowing perfectly well that fears of large crowds were entirely viable things. "I know that this can't exactly be easy for you... I mean, it's not easy for anyone to accept their own death but... You need to accept it to move on, in order to not be caught up in the past for so long... That could potentially cause you to go mad Runa... So come on, try not to think too much about the crowd, okay?" she said kindly towards her with a smile.

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Beth had to keep herself from rolling her eyes. Prophetic visions didn't tend to come with evidence, but that didn't mean she shouldn't be taken on her word, "Well, I did this." She started to say, reaching out and bringing out the runes she had drawn, "I wasn't sure if my vision was a dream or not, so I used some magic to confirm." She slid the paper across the table to Lief. She may be a daughter of Loki, but she didn't make a habit of lying to people in power about serious matters. This wasn't her kind of prank, and she hoped that the Thanes weren't stupid enough to think that it was.

Crossing her arms she continued to say, "I get if you don't want to believe me, I'm making a big claim here." She conceded, "But consider this: If I'm right, and you do nothing, you're part of the reason the world ends." She knew that that was an aggressive argumentation strategy, but it was required here. If she was right, and they did nothing, countless would die, their godly parents included. Guilt, she found, was an incredibly effective motivator, and there wasn't much that could make a person feel guiltier than implying that they'd be responsible for death on a scale hitherto undreamt of.

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John looked at Lara and gave her a slight shrug. "Not to much really, went to the shooting range and shot a few targets, and then did some pottery work as well to." He told her as he watched Elizabeth talking to one of the Thanes, he wasnt really sure what was actually going on either before looking at her. "Want to go talk to her and see what is going on?" He asked her, then watched Magnus and Alex talking to each other they were probably the most famous Einherjar in Valhalla right now along with those on Floor Nineteen.

Dalisy would end up getting some food thrown at her, it was some mashed potatoes that hit her in the back of her head, she would be able to see that it had come from an Einherjar in their late thirties, laughing slightly towards one of his mates. The Thanes would look amongst each other and whispered, they were still a bit skeptical as Leif took the letter and started to read it over and looked back at her. "We will talk about this amongst ourselves, go and eat now." Helgi told her, as the Thanes started to talk amongst themselves some more.

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Arnora stood at the elevator and waited for the others to come and join her as she looked over at the racetrack it was now empty for the most part other than just the four of them. She didnt really know the new girl all that well, but Arnora could easily understand not wanting to be close by right now. Nadia turned around she looked at Runa giving her a sympathetic smile as she gently rested a hand on her shoulder looking over at Klara as she spoke and nodded towards her.

"I understand as well, this is all really hard to take in I was the same as you when I first came here. But think of this as a second chance at life, you could do just about anything that you'd like here, if there was something that you could change about yourself you can do it here." Nadia said giving her a bit of a smile trying to cheer her up. "Klara and I can stay close by to you if you'd like you arent alone. After dinner we can sneak out of here if you still want to as well." Nadia offered while looking over at Arnora who was holding the elevator for them still.