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She considered the offer for a moment, but she had to be truthful with the boil. After all, Kettil deserved nothing more than the truth. So she prepared her best pouty voice, and told him.

"But I'm never a good ghoul."

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..Now THAT was more like it. The moment she was on her feet, and his back was presented to her, she hopped up on it and clung to him so tightly it was more of a squeezing hug than a clutch. She just wanted to hold him so much it hurt her heart, deep down inside. So all she did was wrap her arms around his shoulders, and her legs around his middle, and squeeze him like a teddy bear.

"I loves yeh." She muffled against the back of his neck, as a tide of welled up emotion leaked from her voice.

Yes, picking her up made her feel this way.

This was the perfect position for her to enjoy the view. She craned her head back just to see how tall the trees grew. She tried to imagine Kettil here, as a little boil. "Did yeh likes teh climbs trees a lot?" Freya murmured as she caught sight of a nest high up in a tree. "We climbed trees when the local boils dared us, but papa never liked when we came home with skinned knees. Said our skin had to be pure and soft, like snow. Hah, mama laughed! She says, when papa married her, her skin was tough like a real woman's should be!"

All she could do was roll her eyes. "He wasn't tryings teh protects us. He's tryings teh makes sure we're perfect for-" She stopped herself, hesitating to say the 'm' word after the discussion they'd had earlier. So instead, she just awkwardly finished the sentence with; "aaah.. the future. Yeh knows. So we're. Still pretty. When we're old."

Nice save.

Not.

"He does loves us. Don't gets me wrong. Just.. if he was so worried about us, I thinks he would have had different priorities when it came teh our other habits. I mean he loved teh gets us out on the battle fields."

Freya bounced with laughter. "Nah, not really! Yeh've never seen us in full armor, hah? Papa has us all fitted, we knows how teh fights with full suits on. But we likes teh fights bare, when he's not looking. That is when we gets all our good scrapes and bruises, ja!"

She reached in and playpunched him on the stomach.

Her laughter quieted when the sound of water started infiltrating her senses, and she went still when the sight of the waterfall started to come into view. A soft breath left her, and her head lifted to crane up for a proper view. She was quiet as a mouse, just staring in awe, until finally, when she caught the perfect view of it, her voice came out in a hushed and awed whisper.

"Wow."

"I has pictures! I shows yeh, when we gets back, okays?" She had a whole book filled with pictures from home, many of them including all of her sisters. Even more were her and Hel, and a few were other, old friends from home. But there was a section devoted to sparring photos, and she couldn't believe she'd never shown Kettil before this moment.

Her head rested on his shoulder, and her face took on a lazy, contented look. "It's beautiful, Hooter. I told yeh, yehr home, it's like a wonderland." Her head pressed to the side of his, and she sighed longingly. "I would have loved growing up here."

Freya had to look down at it, her tone hesitant when she finally spoke. "Well, that depends. How deeps is it? And is it cold..?" She loved the water, it called to her, begging to play - but the depth of the pool that the waterfall fell into would certainly indicate whether she could actually dive in, or just.. play on the edge sadly.