Looking at Jerrica for confirmation she nods. "I think that's the plan. Beside's what kind of aunts would we be if we just up and left?" Sig asks with a wink.
Jerrica giggles. "I wouldn't dare leave you alone, Frostine."
"Don't be hard on Dan," Nolletta says. "He just wanted to provide for his family and got more than he bargained for."
A look of relief crosses her face as she gets up to hug the two women, "Thank you both....that makes me very happy. See Dan...you don't have to worry, you'll be leaving me in very good hands." She says trying to reassure the cleric as she looks from her two friends to Thorgr.
Dan smiles. "Then I feel better about my choice."
"We'll take good care of her. I'm sure your family'll be very happy to see you." Sig says with a good-natured smile.
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Ishmael returns with the two women. Woden nods to the blacksmith and healer. "This is my son, Tyr, though Loki gave him that feminine form. And that is Eir, friend of my wife."
He waves his hand and Tyr becomes a man again. Eir looks to Woden. "Woden! What has happened?"
"This is the doing of Loki," Woden answers. "Yggdrasil has forgotten herself, but, for the time being, it should be left that way. Tyr, grant these heroes something good for their efforts. Eir, please tend to the wounded elf."
Tyr nods. "I'll enhance either your armor or your weapon, your choice."
Eir goes over to Nolletta and touches her ankle which instantly becomes healed.
"Thank you," Nolletta says to Eir.
Feeling her eyes get damp she goes to Dan and gives him a hug, "Thank you for everything you did for us....we wouldn't be here if it had not been for you. Could you wait here just a moment before you go? I have something I need to give to you." She says before running from the table and going to their bedroom to fetch their bag. Digging through it she finds what she's looking for and is quickly back in the other room. Going to Dan she hands him a small satchel of gold and silver, "Here...don't argue, just take it. It's you're share of what we've collected so far and is rightfully yours to take home since you kept all of us alive. Please....take it with you and use it to help your family." She says before giving him a kiss on the cheek, "You're a good man and we'll never forget you or what you did for us." She says sounding a bit emotional as she places a hand on her stomach. Inside the satchel is 177 gold and 2 silver.
Dan takes the money. "Thank you. Ready to go, Nolletta?"
"Yeah," Nolletta says. "It's been nice spending time with you all."
"How about you, Ishmael?" Dan asks.
"I'll wait for Risque," the rogue replies.
Nodding she goes to Nolletta and gives her a hug, "I'm sorry we didn't get to know each other better...but I enjoyed the time we did spend together. Good luck to you Ms. Nolletta, you too Dan." She says while wiping her eyes.
Dan nods. "Good bye, everyone."
He and Nolletta leave the cottage and head on the Rainbow Bridge. Soon, they are gone.
Thorgr sighs. "So what do we need to do now, Woden?"
"Take a day to relax, take Tyr up on his offer, then you will journey to Helheim to find Heimdall," Woden says. "He will help you traverse the other Nine Realms."
Thorgr nods and hands his sword to Tyr. "Enhancing this will be of most use to us."
Jerrica offers her rapier.
Corrie returns with scrambled eggs, toast and bacon. "I hope I made enough for everyone."
"I shall head back to my place," Eir says. "I shall put together a care package for your travels."
The healer leaves with a courteous bow. Tyr awaits for Frostine's and Sig's decision.
She kind of shrugs as she sniffles a little. She was always sad to see people go that she had become attached to, but she understood why they couldn't stay and didn't blame them. Wiping her face again she says, "I....I don't wear armor and all I have is this crossbow...so I'm not sure anything can really be done with it. It's mostly a fall back precaution anyways. I'm not very strong and I only use it when I can't get close to something. I'm not even very good at it. As long as the others needs are taken care of....I'm okay." She says as her stomach complains loudly. Blushing she says, "Well...maybe I'm still a little hungry after all. Most of the time it's hard to tell what I'm feeling like lately." She says as she rubs her stomach to try and get it to quiet down. She knew that rubbing it wouldn't make the hunger go away, but she was hoping that at least it would calm the noises it was making. As she smells the food that Corrie brings to the table her stomach let's out another loud rumble, "Okay okay...sheesh." She says with a sigh as she takes a little bit of each before starting to nibble on her food.
Smiling Sig hands over her battle axe. "I think enhancing this would probably be best. It would be an honer to know that my weapon is godstouched."
Tyr takes the weapons then looks at Frostine. "I'll make something that'll help you. Father, be safe."
Tyr leaves and Woden helps himself to some food. "This is good, Corrie. Thank you."
"You're welcome, Woden," Corrie says.
"Dinner with Woden, no body would believe this.....I barely believe this." Sig says chuckling as she pulls out a chair for Jerrica
Jerrica sits down. "So...educate me on Woden and Loki. I feel a bit lost here."
Frostine looks at Sig, "You being the story teller here would probably be better suited for this anyways, but Woden is like...to us he's what we call the All Father...he is everything. Loki is like the irritating pain in the ass that you just want to slap repeatedly in the face. He's always up to some kind of mischief and trying to create conflict and problems where there need not be any just for laughs. Though this time the things he's doing go far beyond practical jokes. That's just my simple take on it....like I said before, I was never really educated about much of anything since they felt it would be wasted on me." She says before taking another couple of bites of eggs with her toast. Looking at Woden she says, "Everything Ms. Corrie makes is wonderful. She couldn't make something bad if she tried." She says with pride in her voice. Looking back at Sig and Jerrica and then to Thorgr she says, "I'm sorry if that's not a good explanation...but it's just from bits and pieces that I would over hear other people that would come and visit, or sometimes the servants would be talking about stuff when they thought I wasn't around. It's easy to go unnoticed when you're ignored most of the time. If it weren't for bits and pieces of conversation I'd overhear sometimes....I'd probably be a complete idiot." She says without much feeling in her voice as she takes her time with her breakfast.
"Yeah, Loki is essential chaos for chaos' sake. He breathes it like mortals breathes air." she says before launching into describing the gods as she knew them to be, reciting the different tales she'd picked up.
"Wow...that's a lot to process," Jerrica says.
She nods, "Yeah...it's quite a bit. One of the reasons I really didn't mind not being forced to study and just left to my own devices."
Woden finishes eating. "I must go for now. I will return tomorrow to direct you on your path. Thank you again for the meal, Corrie."
He stands and heads out of the cottage.
"Looks like we have our work cut out for us," Thorgr says, taking a good portion of food.
Looking up at Thorgr she says, "Yeah...we do, but we'll manage to get through it. We'll just take one thing at a time like we've been doing." She had some more of her frozen chocolate drink as she continues to nibble on her breakfast. Her stomach was still feeling a little queasy, but she knew she needed to eat.
Jerrica nods. "Yeah. Hopefully, no more orcs."
"Woden mentioned Helheim," Thorgr says. "I'm thinking it may be worse than orcs."
She looks confused, "So...what's Helheim then? Sorry if I should know about it...but like I said before, no formal education...not even in magic though I had it."
"The land of the dead," Thorgr answers.
"Yeah we may be facing the walking dead." Sig says grimly.
Her eyes go wide at his answer, "Ooohhhhh....oh I see. Yes...well, that might not be too pleasant either. No matter what though, we'll get through it. We'll find Woden's family and restore them to their rightful place. We'll do it together, right?" She says as she feels her belly do kind of a flip and pushes her plate away.
"Right."
Risque comes in a short while later. "Oh, you're all here? I hear that we get to go home."
"Where have you been?" Ishmael asks.
"I went searching for another town or something, but it seems the land looped around back to that village we started at," Risque answers. "I had just been avoiding folk and making my way back here."
"I see," Ishmael says. "Well, Dan and Nolletta left. Are you wanting to leave too?"
"Maybe later," Risque says. "I think I need some food and a nap."
She sits down at the table. She gives Ishmael a smile. "I guess you were waiting for me? How cute."
Ishmael grimaces to try and cover the growing color in his cheek. "I don't like unfinished business."
"Right," the changeling says, helping herself to a good amount of food. "What about you lot?"
"We're staying," Thorgr says. "Turns out there's more than meets the eye to this place. We've been asked to help out."
Despite feeling a bit icky she finds the exchange between Ishmael and Risque to be amusing and can't help but giggle slightly. Covering her mouth she tries to settle down and finish her frozen drink. She didn't know if she ate enough, but with her stomach feeling so funny she didn't want to push things. She just hoped she ate enough to appease everyone, it was about half of the small serving she had put on her plate. Looking up at Risque and Ishmael as she feels she has herself under control she says, "Well...we're glad we met you and when you go home we hope that you arrive there safely and that everything works out for you....both." She says as she tries to cover the smile that she feels creeping into her lips despite herself.
"We'll see," Risque says with a wink.
Ishmael gets up. "While you nap, I need to finish a few chores I promised to do around town."
"Have fun, then," Risque says. "I promise not to leave without you."
She nearly chokes on her last bite of her frozen drink before managing to swallow it and covers her mouth again as another giggle escapes. She sits patiently and waits for the others to finish their breakfast as she decides to take the last little bit of her toast and nibbles on it.
Risque raises an eyebrow. "What? A girl can't change her mind or want...a little fun?"
She shrugs as she tries to hide the grin on her face, "Oh you know....we change our minds about stuff all the time. It's fine really...it's nothing." She says snickering still slightly as she nibbles on her toast.
Grinning as she continues eating, Sig leans against Jerrica affectionately. "So headfirst into more adventure."
"We have a day off," Jerrica says. "We can relax or dive headfirst into something else."
She smiles and gives Sig a quick wink.
The grin that spreads across Sig's face is one she'd utterly unable to hide. Not that she was trying that hard."Sold!"