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Klara felt a little bad for Runa given the fact that she was relatively quiet during the whole playback of her own death. However, that isn't the thing that easily caught her attention, and that was what happened afterwards when it was declared who Runa's godly parent was. Now she was insanely confused, given the fact that last she checked Baldur was supposed to have died ages ago, so how the hell was it possible for Runa to be his kid? Problem was... She knew that there couldn't possibly be a mistake regarding it, there never ever was. Which meant that somehow Runa was Baldur's daughter.

"...Not going to lie that was a bit unexpected..." Klara said softly, glancing over at Runa before her attention was once more drawn away by something, this time, it was the Norns approaching. Their words weren't exactly comforting, and it made her feel even worse for Runa, since she figured that this was probably going to make things a bit worse off for her. "Runa... Are you okay?" Klara asked her gently, more concerned about what was potentially going through her head more then anything.

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As soon as the Norns had finished their prophecy they turned and made their way back towards the pond in the center of the feast hall the mist quickly disappearing as well. Helgi stood up after talking with the other Thanes before looking over at Runa for a moment seeing that she had been chosen to go onto the quest in order to save Baldur. "Runa Johansson, the Norns have chosen you to go onto a quest to save Baldur, you are welcome to choose whoever you wish to join you, and any supplies that you need as well, you may leave whenever you wish to go on your quest." Helgi said to her.

Nadia turned to ask Runa the same question as well, but Klara managed to beat her to it, she gently rested a hand on her shoulder trying to comfort her. "I have your back with whatever you want to do." Nadia said gently trying to cheer her up, and letting her know that she wasnt alone at all either. She was curious who else Runa would actually choose to go on the quest as well to, as she watched the room around her starting to talk amongst themselves again. "We can take you back to your room if you'd like as well to." Nadia offered, she had a feeling that Runa needed some space right now as well.

"Well thats good that the Thanes seem to be taking this all seriously now." Arnora said shrugging slightly, she didnt really like them to much, but Odin chose them for some reason anyway as well. "We should give her some space though." Arnora said looking over towards Dalisy, she hoped that it wouldnt be the end of the world or anything like that either. Arnora started to eat the rest of her dinner while watching those at the front table some more.

"I wouldnt really want to be in her shoes right now, now that I think about it." John said looking over at Lara and nodded towards her as he took a bite out of his dinner and watched everyone else in the room some more. "Looks like things are going to get intresting around here pretty soon as well." He said towards Lara.

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"I certainly have no plans to bug the kid of the end of the world." Dalisy shrugged and picked at her food. She was upset and it had nothing to do with the meal...or the prophecy. At least not in the way anyone around her would have assumed. She was worried about her sister. If there was a hope of stopping Ragnorok Dalisy was all for trying. She only wanted to protect her sister. She couldn't give a damn about the rest of the world.

"What do you mean by soft Beth?" She asked. Sort of changing the subject. Dalisy, of course, didn't know Beth and Runa had met earlier, and that it had been a rough introduction. "Also I think they just expect you to suffer for honor or something." Dalisy shrugged and took a deep drink. Her leg was shaking under the table as she tried to think of ways to help her sister. End of the world = dead sister. And Dead Sister was not desired.

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"Well, thankfully you are not in her shoes but poor girl. It's never fun to die and then immediately get tasked with a quest... especially one like that." To be tasked with something like that... it most likely meant a trip to Hel's realm to retrieve the poor god, if she was only so lucky that was it. However... she couldn't just let the poor girl just suffer... so she got up and looked at John for a moment. "Interesting is one word for it. Ragnarok arriving sooner is another term for it too." She went to walk over to Runa and paused as she saw Arnora, Nadia and Klara with the new girl.

"Hey... how is she doing?" She looked towards Arnora as she asked that, and slid in next to the little group there. If any of them asked, she would reply honestly. She was there to offer her hand in help to the new girl. She could see just by looking at Runa that she didn't look like she was having a good day. Dying and then being told to go retrieve your dead father would probably put Lara in the same state as Runa. She would wait for Arnora to reply before she would speak to Runa as she didn't want to overwhelm the girl anymore.

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"Kid freaked out from a prank." She shrugged, answering Dailsy's question, "Can't even take a scary face apparently, she's the one who knocked me out for my prophecy actually." She shrugged/ She still didn't feel bad about that, even a little bit. Sure, it was brash, but she hadn't caused any harm, and if the kid was gonna be a warrior, she'd need to learn not to flinch at such things. Putting her drink down, she turned her head at Dailsy and said, "Wanna go bully the thanes with me? I feel like gloating."

It wasn't that Beth was upset at not being taken seriously, though she was sure that her being a child of Loki made them doubt her a bit more, and that was something she was far from the happiest about, she never shied away from the chance to brag. Normally she'd go up alone, but having a seeing eye Dailsy sounded fun, presuming she didn't try to pull one over on her. Shoveling the rest of the food in her mouth, she swallowed hard, and stood up, cracking her back, and getting ready to get her "I told you so" on.

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Runa struggled to force words out, her throat constricting in spite of her best efforts. She tried to think of how exactly to answer Klara's question - should she lie and say that she was fine? Should she risk being emotionally vulnerable and admit everything to her? Could she trust her? Her worst fears of having her parentage revealed hadn't been realized... yet. Her mind was fresh at work, coming up with more and more doomsday scenarios. Maybe this was all just some sort of trick. Maybe Klara knew she had talked to Loki and was trying to set her up for a trap. Maybe the second they left, they would stab her in the back and kill her.

She hated being given choices. She tried again to speak, this time with more success. "Erm, now. We should leave now," she said quietly. The more time they had, the better the odds right? She fidgeted awkwardly as a blonde came on over and joined them at the table, feeling a bit like an animal on display in a zoo. "Kl-Klara... N-Nadia... C-could you two come with me? I uh.... I need to tell you something in private. I mean, come with me on the... the quest or journey... I forget the English word, sorry..." she mumbled.

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Arnora looked at Elizabeth and gave her a bit of an annoyed look and shook her head slightly. "Well she did just die, and barely had any sort of time to adjust and then being shoved off the deep end already with a quest it would be overwhelming." Arnora said shaking her head slightly at her, people in the modern age did seem a little more fragile unless you were in some kind of military or army. "Anyway, i'm gonna go and check up on the new girl you guys can come or not up to you." Arnora said as she quickly got up from where she was sitting and made her way over towards the group. She turned and looked at Lara and smiled towards her and shrugged slightly she had only met the new girl not to long ago really. "Hadnt really known her for to long." Arnora answered her as she approached Klara, Nadia and Runa.

Nadia gently rested her hand on Runa's back seeing the girl was getting nervous again and getting that caged animal look as well. "Yeah of course we can go and get things ready if you want, and if you want to talk or something to we can." Nadia said as she looked over seeing Lara and Arnora approaching and gave the two of them a slight wave. "C'mon lets go." Nadia said as she helped Runa up and motioned for Klara to follow her.

"She's really nervous, she's going to need some help with everything." Nadia whispered to Lara and Arnora so only the two of them could hear. "Lets meet up at our floor in like thirty minutes, and introduce yourselves there to where it's less busy." Nadia continued before making her way over towards the reception. Arnora looked at Lara and shrugged slightly, she did promise to let Runa out of the hotel later as well to. "She's scared about everything and still processing things to I think." Arnora said.

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"I think she needs a little bit of space..." she started to say towards just about everyone else who had decided to come over, when Runa spoke up and asked for her and Nadia to go off with her. She was kind of glad to go off, but she was wondering what it was that Runa seemed to want to talk to them about. Could it just be about the quest? Or could it possibly be about something else? Who knew at this point in time, considering the fact that Runa didn't exactly strike her as the type of person who would just open up about everything, so she was perfectly fine with going along with Runa to see what it was that she wanted to talk about aside from maybe the quest.

"If you want to go somewhere else, that's perfectly fine... Maybe up to your room would be better, there are a lot less people and we can talk there, okay? Just the three of us or something," she said as she followed along after, though she wondered what it was that Nadia had whispered to Lara and Arnora. As they walked towards reception, she looked at Nadia, "What did you say to those two?" she couldn't help but ask her, more then a little bit curious as to what she had said to the other two who had seemed to sort of been crowding around Runa and all.

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"Yeah I'll join you." Dalisy said to Beth. "Arnora if you need me to stab something let me know." Dalisy shoved the last few bites of her food into her mouth and followed after Beth toward the Thanes. She wore a grin. "Oh I have an idea." Dalisy closed her eyes and reached out with her powers. She took after her father and could see anyone, anywhere in the multi-verse. It came with some downsides in that Dalisy had seen some things she didn't want to, but she loved being able to check up on her sister.

Dalisy could see Hel herself sitting on her throne in her Castle Eljudnir in Niflheim. Baldur is trapped in a cage there. That gave them some information. Dalisy wasn't certain if Beth had seen that in her own vision as detailed though. "Beth dear, did you know where Baldur was? I just looked and I can see him in Niflheim. Hel has him, but I think you knew that." She sighed. Her power would be useful. She focused a bit more, the Naglfar and a small group of the undead and a few frost giants gathering things but it isn’t ready yet. "The faster they get there the better. She has frost giants gathering stuff, but they aren't ready yet. If they get ready we're gonna lose. I'll tell Arnora so she can warn the new girl."

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Lara had barely sad down and gotten a much appreciated answer from Arnora when Runa, the new girl, asked Klara and Arnora to talk with her in person, as well as asking them to go talk in private. She sighed a bit at that as she looked up at her friends. "If you need any assistance, I am here to offer it. As well as to bind any oaths if needed." She sighed a bit at that point and then turned to Nadia and offered her a small smile. "Meeting up in thirty to introduce myself does sound like a good plan. I do know too well how overwhelming it can be here."

She looked to Arnora again and nodded. "She should have more time to adjust than what has been given to her. However... this is ominous..." She was aware that this could end poorly for all of them. The once dead god... back in the realm of the living. Lara was glad she had not brought any sharp implements to the table with her, otherwise she would be carving out chunks out of the wood with worry. She did look up as she saw Beth and Dalisy go to approach the Thanes's table and inwardly groaned. Were those two looking to add more trouble and chaos to the dinner already?

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Listening to Dalisy, Beth thought for a moment, "I knew where they were, the runs had to much as told me that, but if they've started assembling a force we need to move quickly." She agreed, taking Dalisy's hand so she didn't get lost on their way to the Thane's table. "Problem is the Goddess of Death will quickly add us to her domain if she catches us, so we'll need two teams." She started, as they moved forward, "One to disrupt the Frost giants, create a distraction and set them back, and the other to save Baldur, hopefully while Hel is trying to deal with group one."

As she expanded upon her plan to Dalisy, they neared the Thanes' table, and she placed her hand in front of Erikson, though, she wasn't sure who she was actually in front of, and let out a grin, "I'd love to waste time and say I told ya' so, but Dalisy here apprised me further of the situation. Hel's gathering forces, if we're gonna want a shot at preventing this, we need to move now." She said, perhaps a bit too loudly, before continuing, "You can't trust the newbie to organize and run this on her own, too much is at stake, and to be blunt, I got no faith in her. Let me help run it, so literally everyone doesn't die."

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"I'm sorry, again but see you soon at our floor." Nadia called out to Lara as grabbed Runa by the arm and started to make her way to the elevator and pressed the button to the 21st floor. She looked towards Klara asking what she had said to Klara, she looked at Runa for a moment, hoping that she would let Lara onto the quest as well. "I told Lara to meet us up at our floor, I think we will need her help on the quest." Nadia told Klara as the elevator continued to go up, until it was now on their own floor as soon as the door opened Nadia looked around seeing that there wasnt anyone else on the floor currently.

"It looks like everyone is still at dinner, so we do have some free time." Nadia said as she walked over towards a nearby couch there was a small lounge area, she looked up at Runa. "So, whats wrong?" Nadia asked looking over towards her, she knew that there was a whole lot of weight on Runa's shoulders right now. And she had been here for only a few hours as well which was really scary for new people as well to. "Also know that you arent alone in this either, you can trust us." Nadia said to Runa.

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Arnora gently rested a hand on Lara's shoulder looking over towards her and smiled slightly turning her attention over towards Dalisy as well as Elizabeth, and shook her head slightly. "It looks like that Dalisy and Elizabeth are annoying the Thanes, we should go and stop them before they do something stupid." Arnora said as she motioned for Lara to follow her, and started to make her way over towards the Thanes' table picking up what Elizabeth was saying towards them.

The Thane that Elizabeth was actually talking to was actually Helgi, who glared directly at her, his nose flaring slightly as he stood up from where he was sitting and towered over her. "To be blunt Child of Loki, that is not your decision to make. Yes Runa is extremely new here, the choice is up to Runa and her alone on who she picks and chooses. You will need to relay your information to her, so I suggest that you go now." Helgi told her coldly and sounded really annoyed, as Arnora caught up gently patting Dalisy and Elizabeth on the shoulder looking at the Thanes. "I am really sorry for Elizabeth's tone we can take her to Runa." She said looking at Dalisy hoping that she would get it, and pissing off the Thanes was never a good idea at all.

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Beth had talked for Dalisy, which was just fine. It meant the ire of the Thanes weren't directed at her. Dalisy was a shit-stirrer, but she wasn't an idiot. She followed Arnora away from the Thanes. "We have some information for her." She said. "I took a look. Hel is vulnerable right now, but I don't know how long until she has forces gathered that we actually have to worry about." If they could prevent Ragnorok it would hold it off for a while yet. It wouldn't stop it. Nothing could.

Dalisy sighed. "I don't want this to be underestimated." They could keep the world turning long enough for Niah to have a full life. That's what mattered. Why did this have to happen in Niah's lifetime? "I don't care if I go on the quest of not. I just want to make sure Runa knows everything she needs to." For someone who was as fatalistic as Dalisy was she did seem particularly concerned.

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As the elevator stopped on floor twenty one, Runa didn't feel any sort of connection to it. She didn't see it as her floor - she didn't even feel like her room here was her own. It was truly a hotel, just a place to pass in and out of, not the rich and vibrant afterlife of the Summerland that she had been anticipating. Her mind fixated on the negative, struggling to see any positives in this situation. There was so much that was wrong with her afterlife, so much guilt that she felt for the choices she had made so far, and as well for some she hadn't - for instance, she felt incredibly guilty to even have been born. Balder wasn't supposed to have any recently deceased children from what she could tell.

She swallowed, standing instead of sitting on the sofa. "When I died, I didn't wake up at Hotel Valhalla," she said softly. "I was in the land of the damned and the gatekeeper, he said You should not be here daughter of Balder, you shall not find him... and then I was here... And um... Loki then tried to strike a deal with me, b-but I promise I didn't trust him, I'm not a spy or anything, I just... Balder isn't my dad. I've never met him. A-and I was worried you would all think this was all my fault, the end of the world..."

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Now Klara couldn't help but be slightly annoyed with Nadia on that one. "...So let me get this straight, you decided to invite people to join us or whatever later, when Runa hates being crowded by a lot of people which was made obvious in the short time we've known her, and when it isn't your choice whether or not anyone else actually tags along. It's Runa's choice, not yours, so why did you feel like it was fine with you just doing that?" she asked rather bluntly, crossing her arms and looking at Nadia as she followed along after the pair, to the elevator and up to the 21st floor. Sure, she knew that Nadia likely meant well, but that probably wasn't the best way to go about actually potentially inviting people along. She should have asked what Runa wanted first rather then just assume.

Glancing over at Runa as she sat down on the sofa in the room that they eventually came to, she listened to her words about what had happened before she came to the hotel, and about her encounter with Loki. "Hey, no need to be nervous about anything Runa, I trust you, if you say you didn't trust Loki or whatever, then I believe you. That whole instance before you got here is interesting... Is that the only words you remember hearing? Since it sounds like they knew about your eventual quest to find your father Baldur, whether you believe him to be your father or not, before you or anyone else did... Trust me, learning of your true parentage can take some getting used to..."

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Lara could feel a slight tinge in her cheek rise when Arnora put her hand upon her shoulder, and it just confused her as to why. Maybe she had been lacking such physical comfort as of late. She pushed the thought out of her mind as her friend spoke, bringing up a good point. "We should stop them indeed... I can see Helgi getting annoyed at Elizabeth already, and I doubt Dalisy would help." She got up and went to head over with her friend towards the Thane's table.

She continued to follow her and paused as Dalisy spoke. "I don't think anyone is underestimating how serious this is, Dalisy... we all know what this signifies, or at least most of us do. Come, it might do well for all of us to go and speak with Runa then." Lara took lead of the group and headed over towards the elevator. Thankfully, most of the Einherjar were busy with dinner or chatting with their other friends, so summoning the elevator would take less time and it would be less crowded than it had been before dinner.

Lara knew the way she was acting could be taken as her wanting to go so badly on a quest, but honestly, she was just worried for the new girl, and knew that she needed as much information as she could get. Also, being the resident Oathbinder, Lara was sure that she might want to be witness to the group Runa had picked and bind them together.

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Beth bit her tongue, and as Dailsy and Amora led her away, she followed without complaint. Even at her age, there was a part of her that still wanted something to fight. As far as she was concerned she should be a thane, given her age. She didn't have a disrespect for authority, quite the opposite actually, but at this stage in her afterlife, she firmly believed that she should have authority, and that the leadership these people had was not based on merit, but status. She believed that power was earned, and she hadn't seen these people earn it at all.

Following the two, she said, "I can't believe how stuffy the Thanes have gotten." she said, gripping her free hand tightly, "Let's go find the new brat and tell her what we know." She chuckled a bit at Dailsy though and said, "Somehow I doubt ever the most foolhardy among us would underestimate the end of times, come now." Surely, nobody would look at a crisis and not give it the seriousness it deserved. Or at least, she hoped that the children of the gods would be smart enough not to do that. "But information and time are the keys to success right now, that's what we need to keep in mind."

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Nadia turned to look at Klara for a moment, she didnt give her an annoyed look or anything at all this was to much for someone so new and this quest was a lot bigger than anyone of them as well. "I know that Runa doesnt like huge crowds, but having people that she could trust helps and goes a long way as well. And ultimately it is her choice on who she picks on who can go on the quest with her." Nadia said, looking at Runa it was still ultimately her choice if she wanted just her and Klara to go or if she wanted some more to help out. Nadia turned her attention over towards Runa as she started to mention what had actually happened when she died and before coming here.

Nadia shuddered slightly at the mention of the realm of the dead Helheim, she died at the hands of draugr and didnt like the idea of seeing anything zombie like at all either. But the mention of Loki was really weird, she knew that he was the one to kill Baldur in Norse Mythology by tricking his blind brother by shooting a mistletoe tipped arrow at him. "I believe you Runa that you arent a spy or anything like that at all, and Loki obviously can never be trusted at all." Nadia said as she got up and gently rested a hand on Runa's shoulder and gave her a smile. "Just know that you arent ever alone here, and we have your back to." Nadia said trying to cheer Runa up as best as she could.

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Arnora stared at Elizabeth for a moment, she was a little bit annoyed with her that she said that Runa was a brat, the Thanes were clearly annoyed with Elizabeth due to the way that she was speaking. "You do know that the Thanes have the ear of the All-Father right?" Arnora said looking at Elizabeth, even though Odin had more of a thing for giving speeches for timeshares or whatever the mortals have been calling them these days.

Arnora nodded at Dalisy they did need to give the information to Runa right away and started to make her way towards the elevator and started to use her ability to track people from earlier. Looking over towards the others, getting their location now and were on the 21st floor right now. "She's on the twenty-first floor right now." Arnora said as she waited for everyone to get into the elevator before pressing the button and the elevator started to ascend now.

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"Really is that so Lara? No one is underestimating it. Then why did the Thanes completely ignore Beth when she told them before Runa was claimed. Beth had a vision and she was ignored. What we've seen shouldn't be ignored. Ragnorok is inevitable. But we should at least try to slow it down. Going into Niflheim under-prepared will be the death of this quest. Going into Niflheim too late will be the death of this quest. I'm saying it needs to be timed correctly."

Dalisy followed Arnora into the elevator. Her chin up. She was pissed, but honestly when wasn't she. Dalisy was just taking it out on Lara. On the woman who was too much like her own sister. If they both ended up going on this quest Dalisy wasn't certain how that would turn out. For the most part in Valhalla she could avoid Lara, but going on a quest together that would be impossible. It set her teeth on edge.