"Nom..."
Fiona took her ti savoring the ultra-sweet sweet cream, cheesy delicacy lying on her plate.
Her mood, which was beginning to deteriorate before, was already showing rapid improvent.
Her feet swished underneath the table with childish glee. Thrudd didn’t know if she had ever seen her friend be so carefree.
"You, uh... really like carrot cake, huh?"
"It’s the superior delicacy." Fiona pointed her fork at Thrudd nacingly. "There’s nothing better for one’s spirit than vegetables and cream cheese. It’s almost healthy."
Thrudd opened her mouth to speak.
"I said almost, boob dragon. Now keep your focus off my widening hips and fix your fucked up relationship."
Even though the two of them were sitting directly across from one another, Thrudd and Behemoth had yet to actually cross eyes.
Instead, they made uncomfortable eye contact with everyone else in the Norse tavern. Several patrons had already walked out as a result.
Finally, their eyes t. Thrudd imdiately turned away.
For soone who did not have an explicit attraction to n or won, Behemoth checked a lot of boxes for her that she didn’t even know she had.
"...Speak."
"H-Hello."
"That is not... quite what I ant."
"Oh..."
"Yeah..."
The girls turned away from each other again.
Fiona was already beginning to get annoyed.
"Start talking to each other right now, or I’m going to start ranking the n in your family by which ones could make lose my self-respect. the fastest."
"E-Ew!" Thrudd recoiled.
"The next words to co out of your mouth better be backstory or else!"
"Fiona!"
"Number one: your dad. I saw that print at the pool party, and no matter how scared I am, I’ll try anything once."
"H-He’s the entire problem!" Thrudd yelled with a red face.
Her shout accidentally caused the clouds overhead to rumble. Rain fell outside softly, and Behemoth took one of Thrudd’s hands.
"Tell us what happened. We’re listening."
Even Fiona seed to be all out of jokes as she stared at Thrudd with her chin resting in her hands.
Feeling sufficiently comforted, Thrudd finally released a deeply held sigh.
"Okay, so... basically, my dad won’t tell why I’m... different."
Over the next few minutes, Thrudd went on to explain why her upbringing was rather different from that of her other counterparts.
She then detailed her suspicion that her father and other mbers of her family might have known the reason for this, and how it was basically confird with her father’s behavior.
Behemoth was the only one surprised that Thrudd was ’different’.
Most primordial beasts don’t possess the ability of parallel awareness, and she wasn’t a particularly curious dinosaur to begin with.
Fiona, on the other hand, already knew that Thrudd was different.
She had seen enough of the multiverse to know that not only was Thrudd the daughter of Thor, she was a valkyrie as well. She even had a slightly timid and mild-mannered husband.
However, she never really put much thought into the reason why.
Creation was like that sotis. A whole slew of things were possible in one realm that weren’t in another.
"Okay... so why do you care so much?" She suddenly asked.
"B-Because I want to know the truth!"
"Do you think it’s bad?"
"I-I don’t know, maybe!" Thrudd sighed. "He’s never been so dodgy with before, about anything! He explained sex to with flashcards the first ti I asked about it!"
"What’s wrong with that?"
"I was ten!"
"Aww." Fiona gushed.
Thrudd rolled her eyes and put her head back down. She absentmindedly stirred the spoon in her own cup of coffee to give herself sothing to focus on.
"I just... wish I knew what he was hiding from that was so bad. Even Thea won’t tell , and she tells everything..."
"Maybe she just doesn’t want to get between you and your dad like that." Fiona offered. "She loves you both after all, and it’s not an easy situation for her to be in."
Thrudd didn’t respond, but she knew that her friend’s words made sense. Though that didn’t an she liked Thea’s refusal to talk any more than she did before.
"Huh." Behemoth suddenly said.
"What?"
"Nothing." She turned away.
"You’re lying, what is it??" Thrudd asked desperately.
"...It just seems to that Abaddon believes himself to be protecting you from sothing without allowing you to make the choice on your own. Amusing."
"Ooohhh..." Fiona covered her mouth. "Did Barny with Boobs just comprehend irony?"
"Human. Be silent before I eat you."
"You know you like too much to eat ."
"..."
"...Right?"
Behemoth let out a huff and turned her head away.
Swallowing her pride, Thrudd grabbed Behemoth by both of her hands.
"Bebe... I’m so sorry about leaving you at ho. I just... didn’t want you to get hurt, and I was worried about not being able to protect you, but-"
"But that’s a choice you should have let make on my own, yes?"
"Yes..."
"You’re so smart, Bebe." Fiona gushed.
Strangely, the dinosaur didn’t make another threat to eat her this ti. Instead, she seed to poke her chest out a little bit further, and her cheeks glowed softly.
Thrudd resisted the urge to smile at her.
"Will you please forgive ? I promise that I..."
Thrudd’s words suddenly trailed off, and the look in her eyes shifted. Her entire body beca tense.
Fiona tilted her head. "What’s wrong? Gotta poop?"
"Nevi’im don’t poop." Behemoth reminded.
"Oh shit, right."
"Was that an attempted pun?"
"Oh my god, you really are smart today."
Behemoth thought that maybe she didn’t hate this little human that much after all.
Suddenly, the rain outside beca heavier, complete with flashes of lightning and loud crackling thunder.
"Geez, really pulling it down there, aren’t you, Thruddie?" Fiona whistled. "You’re gonna wash the whole place away at this rate."
"It’s not ..." Thrudd said grimly.
"He’s here."
Suddenly, the doors to the tavern were thrown open loudly, and a hooded figure walked in.
He captured everyone’s attention because of his sheer size. There were only two others in the bar who even ca close to him in height.
His footsteps were heavy; each one sounded like an echo of the thunder outside.
Rainwater dripped off his cloak and spilled onto the floor, but the barkeep seed not to have a problem with it.
Or rather, he was just too intimidated to say anything.
The hooded figure started to make his way to the bar, but paused halfway to his destination.
He turned his head to the side, and those around could see the beginnings of a red beard underneath his hood.
"The fuck are you doing here?"
A bolt of violet lightning crashed into the ground outside. The storm nearly doubled in intensity and made the entire tavern shake.
The man pulled down his hood, and Thrudd’s scowl beca even uglier.
"...Getting a drink. It’s nice to see you too-"
"Cut the shit. You won’t escape from this ti."
Thor looked Thrudd over once and returned his attention to the bar.
"I have never run from you, Thrudd. From the very beginning, I have always been chasing after you."
He sat on a stool, and it groaned audibly against his weight.
"ad. Biggest tankard you got."
The barkeep seed surprised to hear the giant man include him in the conversation. He had a slow start at first, but eventually he placed a small barrel full of ad in front of Thor.
Along with a very large bendy straw.
Thor started to bring the straw to his lips, when Thrudd zapped it with a bolt of lightning from her fingertips- lting it instantly.
"Stop acting familiar." She growled. "Get on your knees and hold up your hands."
Thor grabbed a smaller tankard from the bar beside him and resorted to scooping out ad like it was a punch bowl.
"You’re being unreasonably hostile. I can only assu that’s his doing."
"If you ntion my father again, I will floss your teeth with that hamr."
"He’s not your father!" Thor’s voice bood as he slamd his fist on the bar, splintering it almost instantly.
A discharge of electricity knocked out almost every other person inside the tavern.
"He’s a howrecker! A seducer who turned your mother against our family and killed before he ran off with her!"
Thor’s eyes suddenly beca depressed as he clenched his fists that were now soaked in ad.
"As if that wasn’t enough, he had to erase and steal the only thing that ever mattered... my daughter...!"
Suddenly, Thor stood up and turned towards a visibly shaken Thrudd.
"I won’t stand around while he continues to hold you under his spell to think he’s so great, benevolent figure. He’s a monster, and I won’t allow him to remake you in his twisted image!"
Thor started walking towards Thrudd with his hand outstretched.
"I’m asking you to co with , Thrudd. It’s the natural way of things. The way they’re supposed to be, and the way they’ve always been."
Thrudd was like a frozen statue. Her mind struggled to offer up an adequate explanation for the things she had learned just now, and it almost made her feel sick.
Her world was spinning.
"Thrudd?" A new voice said.
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