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Freya had spent so much time preparing for this moment, that she'd forgotten to relax. When they were ready to enter the Human World, she found herself staring at the portal wordlessly, shocked into awe that the moment had finally come. She was dressed appropriately - in battle gear covered by a long black shawl - and she was packed appropriately - proper historical and scary looking garb, coupled with a whole lot of little things to remind her of Peder when she got lonely for him.

But mentally, emotionally, she was far from prepared.

"I. I. I. I." Kettil had asked her a question, but she was stuck on the first word, stuttered over and over as she continued to stare at the portal.

The squeeze of his hand against hers made her repetitive stutter die on her lips, and she turned to look at him, breathing in an exaggerated deep breath. She tugged on his hand, pulling him closer until she could curl up in the arm he provided.

"I knows." She whispered out shakily. "We does it together. I don't thinks I could does this without yeh, Hooter." And that was not some romantic appreciativeness - she really did not believe she could have managed to walk through this portal without Kettil at her side. He, alone, was the reason she had enough strength to continue forward, until they stood in front of it.

"Okays. On three." She wanted to jump in with him, so their adventure would start forever. She bent just enough to prepare for the jump.

"One.. two.." Her hand squeezed his one last time.

"Three!"

Freya's laughter at the jump echoed even as they disappeared. When they hit ground, the world was too bright for her eyes, and her wings came around to protect her from it. Everything was loud, noisy, and obnoxious.

She slowly re-opened her wings to let her eyes adjust to the bright light of human day, and stood up straight, staring open mouthed at the world around them.

The buildings reached the sky, and the ground was filled with so many bustling people. She had no idea there were this many humans. Just looking at them all made her dizzy.

She clung to Kettil, wrapping her wing around him protectively, and watched the world go by while they remained completely unnoticed. Unseen. No one even looked up, but even if they had, they would have seen nothing.

This was the human world.

"They all looks like ants." She whispered out, watching them cross streets in giant groups and walk up and down streets in a line.

Freya followed him numbly as he tugged her forward, finding her wits only after they'd tucked themselves into the safety of a dark and abandoned alley. She thought she'd been ready for this, but clearly it would take a little more getting used to. Her arms wrapped around Kettil, possessively holding him for support.

"Two days, we gots teh bes here. Ach, I don't likes it." Everything smelled funny, and felt dirty. Something moved in the alley, and she clutched her husband tighter - but it was just a rat, which felt more familiar than any human at this point.

He was right. Team Blacke stepped down from no challenge. She mustered all of the strength she could clean from that reminder, and his arms around her, and puffed up proudly.

"All rights. Let's.. let's go back out there, finds somewhere not gross teh calls home for tonight, and then.. we gets teh work. We should tries and finds somewhere busy, even though it's goings teh drives us nuts I thinks. We just needs access teh peoples we can scare."

She peeked with him, and it was obvious that no one could see them, just as their instructors had said. "Ja," She still spoke quietly, just in case. "Or we can just finds a home that no one is usings at the moment, like they are on vacations or something.. anything empty will be okays." She wasn't as disgusted by the idea of human junk, if only because she wasn't familiar with what that was, and that made her curious.

"Wants teh splits up and goes and looks through houses? Hah, it's like we're shoppings all over again!"

Freya clung to him the moment he asked the question. "No, NO, not like.. splits far, I mean like I goes to check one house, you check the one right next doors, that's all!"

She loved that he seemed so reluctant to split up with her. "Keeps close enough teh hears each other scream. Not that.. anythings goings teh makes US scream.." Her smile was big and regretful.