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Family giving you a bit of trouble, are they?

Maybe just a little.

My father has given me a choice of which path to take in life. I can either follow my mother or my fathers path, I wish to travel with father. Yet I also want to stay with mother and help her with the home, she is becoming poorly more often and I can no longer go with father because I have to stay home to care for her. I do not wish to abandon her when she needs me most and I don't trust my greedy sister-in-law to care for her or run the home.

[She sighs and rubs her temple]

What would you do if you found yourself in such a bind?

[ He regards her for a moment before folding his hands in front of his body. ] I would stay with my mother, of course. There is plenty of time to travel. You are but young.

[The young woman nods in agreement, it was good to finally talk to someone about this and get another persons perspective. Especially since he wasn't anyone from her village.]

That would be the wise choice, maybe I was just getting a little envious of the fun my father and brother are having abroad.

[ He does not have a particular place of dwelling. Although, admittedly, upon being on Midgard he prefers the North. He does not like that he does but it is slowly becoming easier to deal with 'differences' the more time in exile he is.

For what it's worth, Mother topics actually get some honesty our of him. Thor, Odin, they can be put aside but Frigga... not so much. It is a heavy burden on his heart, and thusly he speaks as such. ]

Perhaps a very understandable sentiment. I feel, sometimes we might find unfairness a weight on our shoulders but it carves us.

[ Have a pirate, who just happens to be lounging somewhere nearby with his feet neatly on a table. ]

I suppose that be depending on what you intend to do with said family, and the aspirations that yee be aspiring to.

[Nóregr had always and will always be home for her, She could travel the world but she would always return. Like him she held her mother close to her heart and had more of a connection to her than her father or even her twin brother, yet deep down she subconsciously felt she was missing out on a chance to prove her worth to her father.

She gives the stranger a small smile, very glad to have met him and nodded again in agreement.]

I shall then consider myself somewhat lucky then and count all my blessings. How are you so wise for one of your age, Stranger? What weight have you carried in your life?

What do you by 'What I intend to do'?

[She gives him a quizzical look, did he think she was some kind of sinister woman with ill intentions towards her family?]

I intend to be the greatest Sheild-Maiden that ever lived, that is my aspiration.

[ Shield what was it now? Not that he had any inclination of what that was -- outside of sounding like a glorified wench title. And the pirate simply tips up the brim of his hat upward. ]

Ah. Being the best of anything has it's price, love. Seems like you need to decide what it be that you're wanting most.

[She fidgets and thinks for a moment.]

Both. Both are equally important to me, sometimes I wish I could just be split into two. How would you decide if that is how you felt, stranger?

Deciding how I feel about it is easy, love. [ The pirate stands up, and with all seriousness answers the question with one simple answer: ] Pockets. [ He gives a vague wave to his belt and pockets. ] It all depends on how heavy me pockets are, or how filled they could be by going where I intends. Go wherever the biggest profit will be.

[ He nods, but decides to add. ] Besides, Having more than one of yourself is too bothersome. Believe me; I had to shoot one. Couldn't even tie a knot properly.

[So according to this man she should not base her decision on say, morals or what is right. But simply by how many pockets she has and how greedy she is? That didn't seem right to her... And what did he mean by 'he had to shoot one'?]

The biggest profit?

[Hidlr could say the profit of going with her father was the glory of battle, but staying with her mother was having the glory of being head woman and being the homes leader. Maybe she was thinking about this far, far too hard.]

WAIT- Wait... Are you suggesting you multiplied yourself?

What? No. That's ridiculous. [ Jack gives a quick wide-eyed look around, coming to terms with what kind of things could be insinuated from what he'd just said. Ahem. ] There is only one Captain Jack Sparrow. Though I may have a wealth of impostors that be after my title and fame.

What fame? I have never heard of you- That is if you're referring to yourself, where do you hail from?

[Her arms are crossed and her personal woes are currently forgotten.]

[ It felt old, and he had been strengthening his skills. Turning back in to days of yore unbeknownst was an interesting event but perhaps not entirely unwelcome. Perhaps very much so. These were the days that mortals believed. ]

I am much older than I seem. [ He makes a gesture, a nod, that they may walk. Always preferring movement when speaking. ] I am burdened by many things, but it is all in my nature. Perhaps, in time, you will come to know it.

[Like a proper lady she softly clasped her hands together and moved to walk with him, keeping her casual steps with his but being sure to not be ahead of him. He seemed honest enough and Hildr saw no harm in walking with this man, if he was out to harm her he would have done so by now.

Although she knew her father and brother might have stern words for her.

The claim he made about his age did not set any bells ringing for her, she simply assumed the men in his family aged well. Indeed the mortals believed in the gods but it was usually only when it suited them that they would worship, usually at the beginning of the planting season or the start of a long voyage at sea.]

How much older would that be? Perhaps if you spoke of your burdens you might feel lighter? I would not mind listening to them since you were so kind to have listened to my own, I am sure a man would have much heavier troubles than my own.

[ Loki had an unquenchable need to know, to learn, to grow and experience. In such a time when mortal might have been something considered honorable, how could he not see it? He'd always known Asgard as false in it's gold and when he were young he thought it were because they be worshiped and admired. The other realms, good in their association with Asgard, gave them these gifts and aided in their building, but now he knows it is not so. Some larger part of him carries that ache for power and lordship. Yet some part of him wishes to see the roots of who he really is, winters and cold, and he loathes it desperately, but it only grows stronger the longer he is away from Asgard. ]

Then I would not be who I am [ His smile is mild. ] I am a keeper of secrets. Tell me of your lands, will you?

[ 'Then who would you be?' Was the first question that has come to mind, Hildr chose to keep that to herself as she felt she had pryed enough. Maybe she was best off not having any knowledge of the secrets this man kept, Hildr was afraid of hearing something that she might not like.

His smile was contagious and she returns a giddy one of her own, it was not often she had idle to time to stop and talk with someone.]

My land? I hail from Nóregr. There are many high mountains that are snow capped throughout the year, our lands are mostly fertile and green during the spring and summer with many wild flowers that bloom during that time. Although.. The winter is long and terrible at times, the nights are blacker than black- Some nights seem to feel a century long.

Even so it's a wonderful place to live if you can bear the winters, the summer and spring make it all worth it.

[Even though she had thralls to help with the home, there was always work to do to prepare for the winter so everybody would have enough food, ale, clothes and furs to keep warm over the winter.]

Do I take you from your tasks? [ His eyes, she might have seen, are an unnatural green. They watch eagerly. He hated Manhattan, he was all but revolted by the creations there in New York. Crafted armor and technologies. Interesting, yes. Impressive, no. For one who knew such workings of magic these items were but folly. Useless things. No match, to be certain. ]

I'd dare not, with all my speech of your duty as head maiden at home I suppose parting you from it might be unkind. I'd like to see what you may show me.

Not particularly, I am sure they can manage without me for a while. This is why we have thralls- And why I occasionally pay mine, a little incentive to make sure they keep to their task.

[She gives a small dismissive wave of her hand, Hildr worked hard enough. What was a little harm in taking time off? After all her twin and his wife did it all the time.]

If you wish to see our farm you are more than welcome, perhaps I could even find you something to do. My brother and his wife seem to slack off from their duties more often than not, although my father is away doing business with some monks.

[The young woman would lead the way back to the farm. She wasn't from a poor family by any means and their farm was quite large, but the family house all the relatives during the winter and having enough of anything for everyone was always a bit of a challenge.]

[ Ah, this silly mortal. His smile widens as they walk. He'll return home with her at any rate. ] Do I look quite like the common folk who work the farms? I'd hope not.

[She laughed and shook her head, silly indeed, her thoughts usually were not of the gods or their matters. As long as they didn't make life harder for her everything was well.]

No, friend. You do not look common in the least, do not worry I would not put a guest to work, I am not so inhospitable as that.

[Her home sat on large acreage, the biggest building being the main home with other buildings having their use whether to house animals or other things needed to run the farm. It was past the planting season and a few thralls could be seen tending to the fields, walking down the old worn path several children could be seen running with a dogs of various sizes.]

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That was quick o.o;

I AM ON FIYAH

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FWOOOSH! xD

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