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Post by Megan on Nov 16, 2017 21:25:27 GMT -5
"How long were you grounded after that?" she teased, cuddling a little- or at least as much as she could without imposing on him.
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Post by Thor on Nov 16, 2017 21:28:40 GMT -5
"It is rather hard to ground your kids when you gave them the tools to fly. Our parents were not all that displeased, to tell you the truth; I think our father especially was proud we had come up with such a cunning plan and on our own, though of course he pretended to be angry. And...well, perhaps he was worried, after all."
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Post by Megan on Nov 16, 2017 21:52:11 GMT -5
"I mean," she said, "they must have always been proud of both of you, to have all these..."
She gestured over the hall.
"He's here at least as much as you, even if it doesn't look like he wants to be."
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Post by Thor on Nov 16, 2017 21:53:36 GMT -5
"Why wouldn't they be?"
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Post by Megan on Nov 16, 2017 21:54:53 GMT -5
"Kinda got the impression you have a rough relationship with your dad."
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Post by Thor on Nov 16, 2017 21:55:29 GMT -5
Thor shrugged with one shoulder. "From what I have heard and seen, it's less rough than most."
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Post by Megan on Nov 16, 2017 22:01:15 GMT -5
The last portrait was of Loki, and uncharacteristically flattering. His hair was still barely to the collar, but looser than in the other paintings, and he was depicted smiling rather than pinching his mouth in tightly.
"Oh, this isn't so bad."
She looked around it, turning back and only seeing another family portrait.
"Why isn't there one like this of you?"
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Post by Thor on Nov 16, 2017 22:14:49 GMT -5
There was a longish pause.
"Well, no one's ever thought me dead."
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Post by Megan on Nov 16, 2017 22:26:19 GMT -5
"...oh."
She wasn't sure what to say about that.
"Well. Now that he's not dead either, they should do a more recent one of you, too."
She teasingly reached up to tuck the same stubborn little plait behind his ear.
"After all, it looks like yours was only a little longer than his last time you got a nice one."
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Post by Thor on Nov 16, 2017 22:27:34 GMT -5
Thor shrugged and grinned down at her.
"I'm sure a very fine and enormous portrait is due soon. The Allfather, the Lady Frigga, and all four of their children."
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Post by Megan on Nov 16, 2017 22:36:04 GMT -5
"And the new little queen, apparently," she said, a little wistfully. "I know we're not really friends anymore, but... gosh. She's a princess now, she'll be a queen soon..."
Someone seemed to repeat her- "the little Midgardian queen"- and she looked at Thor in confusion before realizing it had come from the next chamber. Megan darted ahead, looked around the corner and found herself in a huge, airy chamber lined with gold pillars and torches.
Under one of the arches against the wall, a group of artisans were talking together as they worked on painting the same design of Loki and Teja with their hands joined on the wall, exactly as it had been in the sketch save Loki's glamoured appearance. She turned slowly to take in the rest of the room- there was a massive golden curved something at one end, and in the ceiling some were yet more portraits of the royal family.
For the first time, Megan was a little overcome by where she was. As soon as Thor was close enough, she grabbed onto him and clung.
"I think I'm getting Stehndal syndrome from this place-"
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Post by Thor on Nov 16, 2017 22:54:40 GMT -5
Thor caught Megan but also the attention of the artisans, who gaped and stopped what they were doing to bow, but not all at once - so it happened in a haphazard series, like falling dominos. Thor smiled and gave them all a quick wave, before tucking Megan under his arm again and hurrying right on.
"That was the throne room," he told her when they were on their way out. "Although I don't believe I know what a standhall is..."
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Post by Megan on Nov 17, 2017 10:43:52 GMT -5
Megan gazed up at him from where she was leaning on his chest and her breath caught a little.
"It's... it's when you see something so beautiful you get a little woozy. It happened to me in the Met the first time I went, too.”
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Post by Thor on Nov 17, 2017 16:46:12 GMT -5
"Hmm," said Thor, combing his memory to see if that had ever happened to him. "I believe that may have happened to me once, but it was a long time ago. I might not remember it correctly."
She certainly felt like she was woozy; she didn't seem at all sure of her feet. Thor kept his arm around her back as they made it back towards the nursery.
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Post by Megan on Nov 26, 2017 17:25:59 GMT -5
"Can we sit for a moment?" she asked. "I think it's just- it's suddenly really hitting me how far I am from literally everything-"
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