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[valr]

[Hey look, it's everyone's favourite alcoholic valkyrie. She hasn't been around much lately, but she's here now, eying the screen as she idly flicks ash from her cigarette.]

Anyone else who met Salvatore Quisma the other night, let's talk.

[That's it, that's all she has to say.

She just cuts the feed and waits for answers.]

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voice.

[altercate]

That's nothing we didn't already know.

[ but he thinks of lydia anyway, if she could help. ]

Everyone here should be being careful anyway. After what's happened.

voice.

[valr]

Little more specific than we had before.

[the whole kidnapping thing isn't the same, she figures, but it could be connected. it's something to look into at least.]

And people are never careful.

[because people are dumb]

voice.

[altercate]

People are idiots.

[ like, let's cut to the chase here. ]

But short of a seance I don't know how you're going to contact a ghost.

voice.

[valr]

Won't argue that one.

[derek is a man after her own heart.]

Not a bad idea, but I don't know any mediums here.

voice, private.

[altercate]

I know someone who might be able to help.

[ lydia might skin him for it, but hey. ]

voice, private.

[valr]

[Now that gets her attention.]

A medium, or something else?

voice, private.

[altercate]

Her name's Lydia.

[ lala talks around the question of what she is. ]

voice, private.

[valr]

Huh.

[That's the sound of someone who just came to a realization.]

Thought she felt a bit off.

[She never gave it much thought, though, because the whole different universes could change so many things.]

voice, private.

[altercate]

Most people here feel a bit off.

[ maybe slightly defensive, because lydia. ]

voice, private.

[valr]

Didn't mean it in a bad way. I ain't human either.

voice, private.

[altercate]

[ this conversation took a sudden twist. ]

You're just going to tell people that?

voice, private.

[valr]

'Course. This ain't home, I don't give a shit what people here know.

voice, private.

[altercate]

And you're not worried about what they'll do? Unless what you are is that powerful.

voice, private.

[valr]

Made it over 900 years so far. They wanna have a fucking go at me they can try.

[Which doesn't actually tell him how powerful she is, but that's always kind of difficult to quantify.]

voice, private.

[altercate]

900 years?

voice, private.

[valr]

I'm Scandinavian. What you'd call a viking, was born a long fucking time ago.

voice, private.

[altercate]

And just never died?

voice, private.

[valr]

Died when I was twenty. Freyja gave me a second chance by making be a valkyrie.

voice, private.

[altercate]

[ well ]

What does that mean? Being a valkyrie?

voice, private.

[valr]

Me and my sisters decided who would die in battle, and then who of the dead would go to the halls of Valhalla.

[Sometimes she actually uses full sentences when it's about things that matter to her.]

voice, private.

[altercate]

And what do you do here? Not that, I'm guessing.

[ though derek thinks that's probably more complicated than she's letting on, but he isn't sure whether or not he's entitled to ask more questions about it. ]

voice, private.

[valr]

[She hasn't even done that back home for centuries, but she doesn't feel like talking about it right now.]

Security for Stark, some freelance shit when it shows up.

voice, private.

[altercate]

Security?

[ this seems like a step down, but what does derek know. ]

Does that come with a badge and a nightstick?

voice, private.

[valr]

Comes with money, that's all I give a shit about.

voice, private.

[altercate]

Really?

[ SKEPTICAL TBH. ]