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Runa nodded as Klara asked if that had been all she had heard. There hadn't been anything else mentioned, she would have remembered it - it would have been seared into her brain. She still couldn't quite believe everything that had happened. She hadn't even really thought too much about mortality and the fact that she had died earlier that day. Comprehending that her father apparently had been an immortal god? It just wasn't in the cards at the moment. Her mind was too ravished with guilt and sorrow and anxiety and fear. She had no idea how she was supposed to do any of this, she didn't have any special powers, she was just a girl - one who had been killed easily like a fly.

"... I don't know what I'm doing..." Runa then admitted quietly. She was looking down at the floor. She didn't like meeting new people. She hated crowds. For better or worse, she at least was comfortable around Klara and Nadia. "I-I... Would you... Um, would you two do this with me? This... trial? No, that's not the word... quest?" Runa requested. She was stumbling a little bit over her words, as English wasn't her native tongue. She was much more comfortable speaking in Norwegian, yet she doubted Nadia or Klara could understand it.

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"I know that but you can't just invite people along without at the very least asking her first or whatever, you were just assuming and that is incredibly rude, at least think of that next time before inviting people. Since you seem to be missing the point entirely regarding it," Klara responded to Nadia's words with a shake of her head. It was just plain rude to her that she didn't even seem to care that she was more or less just intruding in general. She seems to have a bit of a thick skull or something if she wasn't able to really understand what it was that she was saying.

Hearing Runa's words, she softened a bit, and turned to look over at her. "It's okay to not know what you're doing Runa, most people never know what they are doing in truth. I'm willing to help you out however I can Runa, just know that one for a fact. I'll help, so count me in. Going on a quest sounds like loads of fun to me," she said, giving her a bit of a smile as she spoke. Being frightened of some quest that you would have to go on was natural, especially if it was your first one as well as having been in the hotel for a short period of time. She actually was somewhat expecting Runa to break down or something from the stress aside from what was currently going on, which wasn't much.

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Great... Lara had not wanted to start a fight with Dalisy, but here it was, happening anyways. "Okay maybe the Thanes did, but none of the rest of us here with you are underestimating it. That's why I want to offer my help. I am not disagreeing with you on the timing but seriously, why is it whenever I speak to you, you decide to be curt towards me." Honestly, if Lara had not wanted to talk to Runa, she would have just left when it seemed that Dalisy was also joining them in the elevator on the the way to the twenty-first floor.

She got in the elevator and pressed the button and stood there with her arms across her chest as she waited for everyone else to get in and for the doors to slide closed. She did understand why Elizabeth and Dalisy had to be there, but it did not make it easier for her to be around them. Elizabeth was acting a bit brattish and Dalisy was being her normal self with regards to Lara. It wasn't even that Lara wanted to go on the quest, not that she would turn down the chance to go. She just wanted to help, and that was all.

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Beth shrugged, "We'll need all the help we can get, so we'll be happy to have you." She nodded shortly. She wasn't about to talk down to those who wanted to help. Exhaling a bit, she said, "Don't mind Dailsy though, she speaks about as well as she fights." She said, giving a playful tug on the hand leading her. At Amora, she shrugged, and said, "And that's all well and good, but people who hold seats of power for so long aren't good." They got complacent, or detached from the will of the people. It wasn't a problem to have elders in her society, people died and the clock turned, but with them all being immortal, the clock was stopped.

Stepping into the elevator, she leaned against one of the walls, before saying, "When we get to her, I probably should keep my mouth shut. If I had to guess, she's still gonna be cross at me after the events of this morning. If you wanna go for it, you'd be my best bet as a communicator, Lara." She didn't trust Dailsy to speak in a way that wouldn't get her to shut down immediately, and Lara was divorced from the entire situation. She'd be able to come in as a neutral party, and hopefully get Runa to work with them to get themselves the best shot at averting this crisis.

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Nadia stared at Klara for a moment crossing her arms over her chest for a moment, she decided to not talk anymore about the subject, still it would be helpful to have numbers as well. Runa was new after all as well and she didnt want to see her ending up and failing on her very first quest to. Nadia turned to look at Runa and gave her a friendly smile and nodded towards her gently patting her on the back in a comforting and friendly way. "I'd be honored to go on the quest with you." Nadia said to Runa giving her a reassuring smile as she looked at Klara agreeing to go with her as well.

"And being rude to people in power, usually ends up having a head or two rolling, i'm just saying it isnt smart." Arnora said shaking her head slightly, from what she had seen both Dalisy and Elizabeth were a bit rude to the Thanes. She leaned back against the back of the elevator standing next to Lara and looked at Dalisy for a moment, wondering what was actually going on between the two of them. It was starting to become slightly awkward when the elevator doors opened.

Nadia turned to hearing the elevator doors opening, seeing Elizabeth, Dalisy, Lara and Arnora all coming out of the elevator now she didnt like Elizabeth to much really. She had scared Runa, who had only been in Valhalla for just a few hours at most, she turned to look at Runa and leaned in to whisper to her. "Want me to smack Elizabeth for you?" Nadia asked, she only asked for Lara she wasnt expecting the others to show up. "Why are all of you here anyway?" Nadia asked, Arnora looked at them and then over at Elizabeth. "They have some information on your quest." Arnora told her gesturing towards Dalisy and Elizabeth.

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Runa blinked, not really sure how Klara could think this was going to be fun. This wasn't going to be fun at all. They were going on a mission to stop the end of the world, well more than just the world, the end of existence. If they succeeded, it would be at great cost. And if they failed... Runa winced a bit, not wanting to think about the alternatives, but they bubbled up into her mind. She had images of the world boiling as fire consumed it, strange creatures spilling blood across the land, people screaming as they begged for air, only to choke on smoke and crumble to the ground. She was white knuckling her seat as the elevator opened with a soft ding. "Err, no... I already hit her today," Runa replied to Nadia. She wasn't against hitting Elizabeth again if she tried to scare her.

She stared at the group of strangers that had come to see her with information. She tensed up, wondering if they were about to accuse her of being a spy or something. She didn't know any of them. She only trusted Klara and Nadia, so even if these people had good information for her, she wasn't going to expand her group. If death loomed in her future, she wanted to face it with... friends. "Thank you," she told the newcomers quietly, waiting to hear what they had to say.

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"Honestly, I just don't like your face. It's like when someone gives off a silent fart but it smells so bad you feel like you're going to die and all the hairs in your nose burn off." Dalisy lied. The lie came easy. "Also, you're the most square square that ever squared." That part was true. Lara was annoyingly square. "Oh and also because you're super uptight. If a stick were in your ass it'd probably be crushed to goo or something." Also true.

She turned to Beth when she said that she'd be happy to have Lara along. "Speak for yourself." She said and leaned against the wall of the elevator with her arms crossed until finally they were up with the newbie and of godcursedly course Nadia. Dalisy decided she was going to end up killing either Lara or Nadia if she went on this quest and considered just leaving right then. But she glanced at Lara and for a moment could only see her sister. Protecting the world was protecting Niah.

Dalisy sighed, "Hey, uh. So I'm the child of Heimdal and did a quick check on where Baulder is and Hel is basically amasing an army and if ya'll don't act soon she'll have the upper hand."

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"Could just set an army of goats against Elizabeth if she just annoys me to much anyway, so no need to smack her again, there are waaaaay better ways to mess with her or just be not so kind to her then hitting her, besides that gets boring and way too predictable after a while," Klara whispered to Runa regarding the whole fact that Elizabeth was showing up and Nadia asking her if she wanted to smack her for her. There was annoying, and then there was just sort of mean to new people, and to her because of what happened with Runa, Elizabeth fell under the latter. A prank wasn't fun unless more then one person found it funny, and no one but Elizabeth had found that thing funny.

"What sort of information?" she couldn't help but ask, sort of crossing her arms slightly and looking at the group that had shown up out of the elevator. She and Dalisy had an interesting relationship to say the least, and she gave her a slight wave as she listened to what it was that she had to say, and nodded her head slightly. "Yeah, that definitely sounds beyond bad, then again everything was already insanely bad regarding this whole thing... So, what's the first move do you think, since we kind of need a game plan of where to go."

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"Seems you were outvoted on whether I should be here or not. You're the only dissension." Lara couldn't help but be a little smug when Elizabeth said she was happy to have here there. If Lara had been thinking right, it was Elizabeth and Dalisy that were 'crashing the party' or so they said. Nadia had asked her to come to meet Runa, but it seemed that everyone had something they needed to say at that point, and Lara wasn't going to argue with the importance of Elizabeth and Dalisy's words, even if Dalisy wanted a fight with Lara. (However, that was far from unusual. Dalisy had decided to hate Lara from the first time they met, before Lara had even said hello.)

"Hello Runa, it is a pleasure to meet you. I'm Lara... and I'm mostly here to offer my services. My father is Tyr, God of Law, Order and Justice... as well as war. I'm here to offer myself as an Oathbinder if need be." Lara would never try to force herself onto a quest, but she would offer herself if Runa asked. However, Nadia had asked her to come along, and she would be there to offer her services as Oathbinder.

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"If she wants me smacked, she should come over here and do it herself." Elizabeth said dryly, before closing her eyes and exhaling, "Listen, What I did might've been a bit sudden and out of line, I didn't mean to freak you out as much as I did, so" She paused, "Sorry." Some things were worth fighting over and some weren't, and the latter list got considerably larger in the context of the end times. "Things have gotten a bit serious recently, if you all haven't noticed, so here's what I propose." He started, stepping out of the elevator, and crossing her arms. She knew it wasn't her place to plan, but she knew they all needed to pull together to make this work.

"Hel has two main problems we need to deal with, the army is apparently working on gathering resources, and the caged Baldur. We know Baldur is in Hel's Throne room, so any attempt to get to him will have to cross paths with her, in all likelihood." She explained, "So, I propose two teams. One to disrupt the army, which will hopefully distract the Death Goddess long enough for a second team to break in and get Baldur." That was her best attempt at a plan, and she thought it was pretty good, all things considered, "The smaller the team in the castle, the easier it will be to sneak through, you know?"

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Nadia looked at Runa and gave her a slight smile and nodded towards her, she would smack Elizabeth for her if Runa did ask. "Just le me know whenever you do." Nadia whispered towards Runa, she gave Lara a friendly smile as she and the others approached to give them some more information. She crossed her arms over her chest for a moment listening to both Dalisy and Elizabeth as the two of them told the rest of the group what they had seen. The news didnt sound good at all, and it seemed that Hel was trying to startup Ragnarok for some reason which she didnt know why.

"So two groups to go on a two parter quest." Nadia said as she thought for a moment while looking over towards Runa for a moment. "Runa, Klara and I can go and search for Baldur, while you guys do your thing with the army." Nadia suggested while looking over at Runa it was still her choice after all, and she wanted her and Klara to join her as well. But it sounded like it was a good plan for the larger group to try and take on Hel's army.

"I can get us out of Valhalla, I know a few ins and outs to get us to wherever we need to go as well." Arnora finally spoke up looking at everyone else in the room. She was the oldest out of the Einherjar, in this little ragtag group and had known a few ways to sneak out of Valhalla itself.

"You might need some kind of climbing gear however it's going to be a hard climb on the World Tree." Arnora said, as she cringed slightly seeing Ratatoskr the massive squirrel that lived on the World Tree. "Hope you arent scared of heights or giant ass squirrels." Arnora said, giving Runa a slight smile hopefully the group would be okay with the long climb as well and hoped that everything would run smoothly as well.

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"Fun fact I can control the Bifrost and could just do that. But it's cool I don't want to be involved in this." Dalisy was irritated. She hated Lara and Nadia, and it felt like Arnora was forgetting what skills Dalisy could offer. There was zero motivation for her to be on this quest. Sure, she wanted to help save the world cause her sister lived in it. But she didn't want to be on a quest those two. She'd be near fighting them the whole time. Besides she had a grudge match in the morning if she went on the quest she wouldn't be able to beat the guy up.

"Good luck Runa. Hope you save your dad and all." Dalisy turned around and left the room.

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Runa frowned ever so slightly as the daughter of Heimdall explained that Hel had amassed an army - that was extremely worrying and didn't do anything to help her nerves. But she was also stressed and upset since the woman didn't tell her where Balder was anyways. She knew the answer though - he was in that cold nightmare she had seen earlier, right? She wished that she didn't have to go there, to be surrounded by other lost souls of the dead. Elizabeth, one of her least favorite people, confirmed that location - they had to go to Hel's throne room. She felt like they had a better chance of winning the lottery ten times in a row and marrying super models.

"Uh, giant squirrels? I... I don't think I understand you. I'm sorry. English isn't my first language..." Runa apologized, looking at Arnora with confusion. She was pretty sure that she couldn't have heard her right. Maybe she meant dogs or foxes or tigers? Runa went through a bunch of different animals she could imagine being a logical choice there, but then again, maybe it wasn't an animal at all. English was such a weird language and she hadn't learned it willingly. It had been required in school.

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"Elizabeth you were just rude earlier with everything, and no one exactly asked for your opinions on things," Klara said instantly, shooting a bit of a glare towards Elizabeth. However she didn't say anything else about it, since she did offer at least some information that could potentially prove to be useful to them. She didn't like the fact that Elizabeth was the one coming up with a plan of sorts, but she didn't say anything about it since Nadia seemed to agree with it. Everything was still Runa's decision ultimately, so it would all depend on what she wanted.

Of course, when Runa spoke she didn't say much and seemed to focus more on the idea of the giant squirrels then anything else, since she didn't say anything about the idea. "I mean yeah, there is a giant squirrel thing on the tree, I mean think about it. Squirrels live in trees, we are in the World Tree, so of course there would be a squirrel living in it," she said towards Runa giving her a smile. It did make it a little easier to understand when thought about that way. "Sure, let's go to Hel's throne room and deal with her, that sounds like fun."

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Lara was getting a little bit frustrated at Elizabeth, and she knew the others were tense as well, but she stilled her tongue as the girl spoke... and then listened to the others as the suggested ideas. Then... Dalisy decided her part in all this was over. Lara was inwardly thankful for that, as she didn't really want to be on a quest with her. It would end with one of them killing the other for real at that point. However, the lingering big about heading to Hel's kingdom caused her chest to tighten up a bit. What if.... what if someone she knew was there? It didn't make logical sense, but, then again, if logic could be applied to this situation, Lara wouldn't be in Valhalla.

"I'll be more than happy to lend my aid against the army if you ask of it. I am not happy with the idea of the undead rising up at her insistence too much." Lara looked to Arnora, a bit thankful she would be with her, even if that did mean she'd be with Elizabeth as well. Elizabeth was a good fighter, but sometimes her tongue got her into trouble, as evident by earlier that night. "When should we depart then?"

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"Ratatoskr, he's the massive squirrel that passes messages between a giant eagle at the top of Yggdrasil and Níðhöggr, who dwells at the bottom of the World Tree. He tends to get pissed off whenever someone enters his domain and will try and mentally torture you or eat you or something like that." Arnora said, as she gave her bit of information, she looked at Dalisy for a moment closing her eyes slightly and sighed a bit. Knowing that she may have pissed her off with her suggestion, which was a good plan, but then again things could always end up not going their way either.

"So what do you want to do for the plan Runa?" Nadia asked, looking over towards her and then over towards Lara and nodded towards her they needed to leave as soon as they could. "Also do you want to leave now or first thing in the morning?" Nadia asked, it had been a pretty long day for Runa, but it was still her choice to leave and start their quest.

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Elizabeth raised an eyebrow in the direction of Klara, before saying, "If you'd rather me be quiet on the topic of the best way to prevent the end of all things, I can do that, but putting a muzzle on any of us sounds like the way to make sure we all fail. If Runa has a problem with me, let her say it, don't fight for her." Elizabeth said, crossing her arms and sighing, "Look, I get that me being the one to say that we need to put things behind us is shitty, and it's coming from the wrong direction, but if we could at least put our animosity on hold until everyone is safe again, it would be in literally everyone's best interest."

Turning her head as Dalisy walked off, she couldn't help but admit she was the tiniest bit disappointed in her. She could be useful, as much as she might cause friction with the rest of them, but that was exactly what she was talking about. Every fracture made it more and more likely that the world would end. They needed to stand united, or they may as well not stand at all. "If we've all got something to say, let's get it out now. It's best not to let things fester. I get that I've been... difficult in the past, so please, feel free to air your grievances. We're going into a dangerous situation, we need to be able to trust one another."

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Runa looked at Klara in confusion. She had to be mixing up squirrel with the word for some other sort of animal. There had to be other deadly predators who lived in trees and she had just misremembered the English word. "Squirrel? Like... the little bushy things that eat nuts?" Runa asked, hoping to receive clarification. Her education in Norway hadn't stressed the English words for animals. Most of what they learned had been the bare minimum needed in order to move around English speaking countries on vacations or for business trips. Ratatoskr hadn't been covered on any syllabus in English class.

Before she could answer Nadia's question though, the blind girl Elizabeth started talking about airing out grievances. Runa frowned slightly. She hadn't cared for Elizabeth, as her only real interaction had been the girl attempting to scare her to death - but Runa had thought it was handled. She had whacked Elizabeth with her new staff. The interaction had ended there. She got the sense that Elizabeth must have treated everyone like that and she frowned even more deeply. She didn't like bullies. She had spent her entire life being treated horribly by kids at school because she wasn't the same. She had the scars - quite literally - to prove it. "Erm, Elizabeth, yes? Please don't take this the wrong way, but this isn't about you," Runa said softly. "We should leave now, I think, in the two groups..." she then added.

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Klara more or less crossed her arms and sort of glared at Elizabeth as she started going on and on about something that in all truth she had more or less tuned out of since it was kind of a long rant. It sort of went into one of her ears and out the other, since she preferred to tune out Elizabeth entirely if possible. Turning now to look at Runa, she couldn't help but smile slightly at her slight confusion with regards to a giant squirrel. "Yup, exactly that sort of squirrel, he climbs around the tree and what not, like what Arnora was saying."

Her attention then turned to everyone starting to ask when they would all be heading off, tomorrow morning or right then, and she figured that would have been an obvious answer. Leaving at once would give them the most time that they needed for this sort of thing, and she was somewhat glad that Runa (who more or less was in charge really) seemed to see the light and say that they needed to leave right now. "Yeah, I agree with you Runa, leaving now would give us the most amount of time to complete our goal, hopefully anyway..."

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Lara could feel the start of a headache brewing between Elizabeth and Runa, especially when Elizabeth tried to make what was going on about her. They had a quest they needed to focus on and that was as much as Runa was saying a bit at that point. She was thankful that Runa was steering the conversation away from Elizabeth, and towards their quest, and she was extra thankful that Klara seemed to be in agreement. This was about the quest to find Baldur, not any problems they might have.

"It seems we have a consensus to leave tonight then. If it is alright with you Runa, I would like to head to my room and gather up my supplies for a quest. I am probably not the only one, correct?" She looked around the group and paused a bit at that as she looked at the others. "Also how do we want to split up the groups? Like how we discussed before, three and three?" Ge gently tucked a lock of her hair behind her ear softly as she looked at the others and then to Arnora.