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Loki is not technically banished. This is just - giving her mother space. To think. About what to do with her wayward child. She will be called back in a few years for a more permanent decision. Midgard's nice enough, anyway, and Sigyn's coming along.
The Bifrost lights up in all its colors and -
- this might be Midgard, but it is not a part of Midgard she ever saw and not the place she was expecting to be dropped, and there is no Sigyn with her.
She holds Lævateinn ready as a glaive. Maybe her mother feared her sorcery and thought she'd best be sent somewhere deadly under the impression she was meant to survive the trip -
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"Also," he shouts, "that's amazing and please do teach it someday!"
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"I'll think about it," says an audio illusion in his ear, and then she's doing a hundred miles an hour inland looking for water.
She comes back and transforms without landing. "If you want to cross an extra mountain range," she says, "there are many choices of rivers. Without going that far, it's the ones coming from the lake your cousins are using, or an unappealing marsh lake." She provides an illusion of what she saw.
She comes back and transforms without landing. "If you want to cross an extra mountain range," she says, "there are many choices of rivers. Without going that far, it's the ones coming from the lake your cousins are using, or an unappealing marsh lake." She provides an illusion of what she saw.
"I would prefer not to cross an extra mountain range."
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"Do you prefer it less than sharing the lake with your cousins?"
"...No. You should ask my father. Ata!"
He shouts; Nolofinwë, five miles away, turns and starts walking in their direction. "What do you think we should do?"
He shouts; Nolofinwë, five miles away, turns and starts walking in their direction. "What do you think we should do?"
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"I think that if you go to the lake they're at you should be prepared to cross the mountains abruptly anyway, considering, so you might be well served making the attempt all at once and giving them a wider berth. If some of you can make the climb and some cannot I could turn some of you into birds - there's hardly time to learn to fly but birds are light and could sit on those with better stamina."
"Sounds good. Do we have more options if we cross the mountains? I got the impression that walked us straight at the enemy's fortress."
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"This is what I saw," she says, gesturing at the illusion, "give or take some imperfections of memory. You can get farther from the fortress than they are, if you like." She points at a river. "That one, for instance."
"Well. Let's go check it out. Do you have to touch people to turn them into birds?"
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"Yes. And back. Also, the kind of bird I can turn people into cannot walk."
"...Can you do it to unwilling people?"
"I mean, if the alternative is killing them. That seems pretty good at the thing you said you're fond of - making people not a threat to you without making them dead."
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"People who aren't me couldn't talk as birds either, which would make it hard to negotiate some less restrictive arrangement. But, yes, it has some advantages as an interim solution if it comes to that."
"Osanwë would presumably keep working just fine."
Nolofinwë arrives at this point.
"Father," Findekáno says, "Loki can fly and has a map of the area."
"Father," Findekáno says, "Loki can fly and has a map of the area."
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Behold how the map of the area continues to float in the air.
Nolofinwë looks at it. "So we're going over the mountains. Twice. That's going to be a very difficult trip, for those of us who can't fly. Turning people into birds is appealing, but might make them nervous. I'm not sure how our specific relationship between mind and body endures being turned into things."
purposeful_glory
"It is perfectly comfortable for me but I understand if people do not want to turn into birds, especially since it will take time to learn to fly. We could try a single volunteer again."
"I'd like to try it," Findekáno says immediately.
He takes it.
This is fine, they hear his thoughts. Very fragile, can't see or hear at all, but not painful. I could probably do it for an extended period of time without particular spiritual anguish, though I much prefer being an Elf.