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 Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:26 pm
Samantha~Munin~ Sam turned the paper around, with just the four names on the page. Hugin, Munin, Odin, and Thor... it would be interesting to see if he could read any or all of them. " It would be interesting to try, but I am not entirely sure if it would work on anything at all or without the hammer..." It was an interesting idea, would the magic of Thor and his hammer together again be enough to defy the science of this modern age that they were stuck in. John smiled as he recognised these runes. "Ah, thats Munin and Hugin, Odin's ravens...memory and thought, weren't they? And there it's the sign for the All Father himself..."He paused at the last sign, frowning slightly as his brain ticked over...before he looked away, his voice impassive as he spoke. "Ah, can't quite make out that last one..."
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:52 pm
Sam drew on the other half of the page, three more names. "Are you sure you don't remember that last one?"
That was very interesting... he could read the runes, but his mind didn't recognise the name that she knew for certain belonged to him! She would have expected him to understand the common words that scholars had managed to translate mostly correctly, but most scholars needed pictographs to correctly identify individual names... and John was no scholar!
Of the three new names one she couldn't help but to frown at, although she tried to shake it off... it would be interesting to see if he could read any of them.
She turned the page back around to show him Eir, Loki, and Sif...
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:57 pm
Samantha~Munin~ Sam drew on the other half of the page, three more names. " Are you sure you don't remember that last one?" That was very interesting... he could read the runes, but his mind didn't recognise the name that she knew for certain belonged to him! She would have expected him to understand the common words that scholars had managed to translate mostly correctly, but most scholars needed pictographs to correctly identify individual names... and John was no scholar! Of the three new names one she couldn't help but to frown at, although she tried to shake it off... it would be interesting to see if he could read any of them. She turned the page back around to show him Eir, Loki, and Sif... The big Aesir muttered, frowning as if he should know the rune but seeming to avoid the question at the same time... His face brightened when down the next few names. "That one is Eir, the healer valkyre...the next is Loki, the trickster..." He spat Loki's name like it was venom, but as he read the next name his eyes grew wide. "'...And the next is fair Sif. I...think I remember her..."He placed his hands on his head, massaging his temples, tryimg to get three blood flowing through his brain. "'...Aye...many years ago she passed through the Stadium...we were together for a short while, but then she moved on..."
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:15 pm
Sam blinked in surprise at the last, Sif had been in the stadium... she didn't even think Sif had survived Ragnarok, let alone all the years thereafter when the belief of mortals wained in gods and most of them disappeared.
"You saw Sif, or Sif's reincarnation.. like me, a new body but the same soul..."
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:39 pm
"Aye girl...she said she was from the Clans in the south, though only the gods know where she is now...i distinctly remember her hair being impossible to cut, and she was magnificent with a sword...but not much else."
He sighed heavily. It had been a great joy to find her, and find out that he was not alone...but she had left as suddenly as she's come, and he'd been left alone again. He suddenly felt very guilty, his massive shoulders sagging. This was what Amber must've felt, all those days and nights he hadn't returned...the feeling was almost debilitating.
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:44 pm
The girl moved from her seat on the bed and placed both of her hands on John's cheeks tilting his head back up to look into her purple eyes. "Stop that... or I'll have to send you back to Hono'o. I remember that finding you was the happiest I had been since I fell. If Sif is still alive then there is a chance that others are as well... and that could be good and bad for those like you and I who have lost some of what we were." She grinned, a childish sort of smile that would have looked more at place on Hono's face but was genuine all the same.
"We need to stick together as long as we can stand each other's company... and the same goes for the mortals that we have feelings for! That is actually why I am here tonight, Brendan may technically be my twin, and I do love him as my little brother... but he can annoy the heck out of me if I have to spend too much time with him!" sweatdrop As pep-talks went, it likely sucked, but then Munin wasn't used to having to reassure big strong men that they were not alone, and that everything happened for a reason...
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:57 pm
John nodded to her with a small smile, reaching out to pat her hip reassuringly. "It's just guilt, little bird....it burns like fire now, but I have medicine now...it well just take time to heal."
Hono'o had done so much for him already...but now she had found him a spiritual companion too, someone who understood him more then he even knew himself. With Hono'o's healing touch, and Munin's tutelage...there might be hope for him yet.
He reached out to poke her belly, chucking to himself. "It's very hard to remind myself you're not a kid...i keep wanting to give you a tickle and a raspberry like I did when you were younger..."
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:25 pm
She playfully swatted at his hand, smiling. "I'm taller than Hono'o, in an earlier time I would have been considered an adult by this age!"
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:32 pm
Samantha~Munin~ She playfully swatted at his hand, smiling. " I'm taller than Hono'o, in an earlier time I would have been considered an adult by this age!" John chuckled, leaning forward to poke her belly again, amused by her typical teenaged answer. "Well unless you turn back time, that excuse isn't gonna hold water honey!"His mirth was arrested like a punch in the guts, his face pale as he sat back In the chair suddenly. "Oh gods..." He whispered. This was what he's missed out with his kids...the jokes, the playing, the bonding...it hit him like an explosion to the face, and his hands fell to his lap, defeated. "...look away girl..." he muttered, raising a hand to hiss face to hide his tears.
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:06 am
((Sorry, too lazy to switch accounts at the moment.))
"You are impossible... and always have been!" Sam exclaimed in irritation as she kissed the top of his head after he told her to avert her gaze.
He didn't want her to see his pain, but it was far too late for that...
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:19 am
HonoRaven ((Sorry, too lazy to switch accounts at the moment.)) " You are impossible... and always have been!" Sam exclaimed in irritation as she kissed the top of his head after he told her to avert her gaze. He didn't want her to see his pain, but it was far too late for that... He only had tears running down hiss face for a moment - then he sucked it up and got over it, rubbing them from his face with a sigh. "Sorry...still a lot of things I need to deal with..." he muttered... And this sealed it. .the sooner the better, he needed to see his children. Only them would he be able to truely relax.
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:57 am
"Just try not to put them off too long.. it will only make matters worse in the long run." Sam said as she picked up the pad of paper that she had been drawing on and turned it back to him to tap at the one rune he couldn't read. "Thor.. that one is your name!"
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:27 am
John nodded. He definately would. There was no two ways about it.
He looked at the pad and squinted at the rune. Even looking at it made his head hurt, and he sighed in irritation as she told him what it meant. "Okay..." He said, rubbing his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose. "...Thats my name. Thor."
He sighed, sitting back up, staring at the piece of paper and feeling the headache looming in his brain. He crossed his arms and pondered what he was going to say...before deciding to just say it. "Munin...how do you know i'm Thor?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:10 am
The girl shrugged and sat back down on the bed. "The same way I know that Evan White is Hugin, and Grace Sarona is Eir.. and that her creepy blond friend is Verandi... but changed." She had only seen the last two once, and managed to learn the doctor's name mostly by accident... but the blind woman had sent a cold shiver down her spine at first glance.
"In part it is because you and Evan told me so.. but there is also a connection... Here," She tapped the side of her head and then with a smile her stomach. "...and here! The part of me that is so very old and remembers all the time that I have existed remembers you. Not the way you look or how your powers work.. but your essence, your soul! You are not really Thor anymore, he died and then the humans that worshiped him died and all that was left was legend and myth. But when Johnathan Tomorrow was born to the tribes the power that went with those legends and myths was born into him, as well as quite a few of his memories... although I can tell that something has happened to disrupt them."
Sam frowned again as she looked up at him, tapping a blue fingernail against her lips. "What in the world did you do to your memories? Even from here I can see that they are all jumbled, like a library where someone tipped over a book shelf and then people just shoved books randomly wherever they could to get the mess off the floor!"
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:22 am
He blinked at the mention of Dr. Sarona and the Verandi woman - they were Aesir?! Why hadn't they told him?
And that reminded him....when would Verandi request his boon? He did not like having unfulfilled debts, especially ones so grand as the ones they did....
He sighed with a little frustration, sitting back in his chair, keeping his arms crossed over his chest. "I guess when i got Thor's power, i didn't get his brains either. Or maybe i did..." He grunted, before speaking up again. "My brain doesnt work with memories like most immortals, or people with longjevity. After a while, it all becomes too much to handle, so evey few hundred years, i use my powers to wipe my memory clean."
He lifted both hands to his head, placing the fingers in a circle on either side of his temple. "I used to leave myself messages in reflective surfaces, telling me why i've done so, and the important things of the time....but the last time i did it....or, at least tried to do it..."
His voice trailed off. He rememebered running from Maximos, running scared, leaping miles at a time to get away from the man he'd called brother. He'd been losing blood from his shoulder-stump, and he couldn't face the fact his friend, the man he called brother, wished him dead....so he tried to wipe his mind.
...But something had gone wrong. Either he needed both hands, or something or someone interuppted him...all he knew was that he woke up without powers, bleeding in a farming field somewhere in the Plains.
"...It didn't work." He finally finished.
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