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Tweak says, "someone... has stolen my tuna"

Idunn (applebearer) wrote in forgotten_gods,
@ 2009-05-09 01:00:00

Entry tags:

frigg, idun

Idun and Open
Who: Idun and OPEN
Where: Central Park
When: Friday, midday
Rating/Warnings: None as yet

The city was cold. Colder, Idun thought with a shiver, than it had any right to be. It wasn't natural, this snowfall, but it didn't take a Goddess of the Springtime to work that out. All around the park was blanketed with snow and Idun reached out to run her hand inches above it, wishing to melt it all and bring light to the plants buried beneath. This was supposed to be her time, not the time of ice and snow.

She had taken residence at a hotel for now for now, in a nice but small room with little more than a bed and a mini bar, and a box under the bed that looked so old and battered but was more precious than anything. Only time would tell whether she would buy a home here.

But she hated this cold that made her shudder and draw herself down further into the big coat she'd had to buy that morning. It wouldn't always be like this, and she had come knowing that the city would not be right. I wish, she thought as she looked across the park slowly, her breath a nimbus in front of her, that I had understood exactly how not right it would be. Perhaps it was here that she was needed more than anywhere right now.

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spindleandloom
2009-05-08 09:58 am UTC (link)

Frigg had decided that a walk was in order. Though her residence overlooked the Park, she rarely walked in it. Today however, the weather was brisk and lovely.

As she walked, she noticed a young woman ahead of her. There seemed to be something familiar about her, a nagging feeling in the back of Frigg's head that said You know her, silly.

With a small sigh, because that voice was probably right, Frigg quickened her pace and fell into step beside the young woman. "Strange weather, isn't it?"

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applebearer
2009-05-08 10:10 am UTC (link)

"Most strange," Idun agreed with a slow nod before turning to pay her attention to the older woman beside her. She frowned then, an expression of confusion and a feeling in her stomach that she only ever felt when looking upon another of her kind. But this feeling... it was stronger, more than just a passing knowledge, more than just...

"I know you," she whispered, already feeling overcome with some feeling she couldn't quite name. The face she knew from long ago, she now saw. "My lady Frigg?" she asked, barely daring to hope that she had found one of her own.

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	spindleandloom 2009-05-08 10:21 am UTC (link)
	Frigg looked at the young woman out of the corner of her eyes. Yes, she certainly did know her. Unlike with the ravens, the yong woman was just as she remembered. "Indeed," she said with a smile. "And unless my memory and eyes mistake me, you are Idun?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

applebearer
2009-05-08 10:36 am UTC (link)

Idun could feel herself tearing up with the overwhelming joy and relief she was feeling. She had come to help this city, and she had never expected to find those she had lost so long ago. She swallowed hard and nodded quickly to say that Frigg was right. She was afraid her voice wouldn't agree with her. "I've been so long separated from my own people," she murmured, voice crackling a little.

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	spindleandloom 2009-05-08 10:45 am UTC (link)
	"You and me both," Frigg said, fighting the urge to hug the young woman before her. The mortals and their constant need for physical contact of some type... another habit that seemed to have rubbed off on her. "I have spent too long without the company of friends and family, it is good to see you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

applebearer
2009-05-08 10:51 am UTC (link)

Idun craved the touch of the older woman but Frigg had never been one who was quick to that sort of affection. Idun had always loved to be touch though, and to touch others. But she would never do such a thing with Frigg, not without the wise woman's prompting. Idun could already feel herself ready to fall into service of Frigg however she wanted. "It is good to be seen," Idun said, wiping her eyes with a smile. "The weather here freezes me but I'm glad now that I came."

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spindleandloom
2009-05-08 11:03 am UTC (link)

"It reminds me of... old times," Frigg said with a small smile. "Times in great halls telling stories around fires with warmed mead. It has been too long." Indeed it has continued her mind. You should see about holding something for the family. I'm sure you could handle... her

She reached over and placed a comforting hand on Idun's shoulder. "So, tell me, young one. What brings you here?"

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applebearer
2009-05-09 01:04 am UTC (link)

"I miss those days," Idun said softly, wistfully. She missed the fires and the mead and the tales. She missed sitting at the feet of her fellow gods and listening to their voices over the crackle of flames, lulling her into peaceful sleep.

The touch and Frigg's voice drew her out of her thoughts of the past and back to those of the present. "I heard of the snows here and I worried for the trees," she told the other goddess, now looking around sadly. "This snowfall isn't right and it brings sadness to my season."

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	spindleandloom 2009-05-09 01:14 am UTC (link)
	"I've watched these trees grow, normally I'd tell you not to worry." Frigg shook her head, "but now, I do not know. It is too different..." As they continued to walk along the paths, she asked "So, how have you been doing? It has been centuries." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	applebearer 2009-05-09 01:17 am UTC (link)
	"Too many centuries," Idun agreed forlornly, trying not to think about the poor plants. "I have been mostly alone in this country without gods. There have been some, but none from our own land. Oh," she said again, looking at Frigg in amazement and wonder. "I can scarcely believe that I'm truly again in your presence, wise Frigg!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	spindleandloom 2009-05-09 01:21 am UTC (link)
	Frigg laughed, she had missed the girlish joy that was part of Idun. "You are one of the first of our family that I have seen since our believers passed from this world. I am glad to have found you here." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	applebearer 2009-05-09 01:24 am UTC (link)
	"Are there others then?" she asked Frigg with sudden excitement. "You have seen our family in this land?" Before today Idun had resigned herself to never seeing her kin again, but now Frigg was here and there was the possibility... no, she didn't want to dare hope. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	spindleandloom 2009-05-09 01:29 am UTC (link)
	"It seems there are," Frigg said. "But I have only met with Huginn and Muninn. They told me there were others. I have not met them yet." (Reply to this) (Parent)