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[asgardswisdom]

[ Beleaguered King of Asgard here with a few short words for you: ]

You have one hour. Make it quick.

[ Really short. That's all. ]

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[unrestrained]

[Every part of him wanted to say to send his friend's back home. Not because he didn't want them to be here. Gods no. When he arrived in Asgard he'd only just had his memories returned and was a few seconds from being reunited with his girlfriend after eight months. It was only until just before the visitors all appeared that he experienced their reunion and the seven days that followed. Seven days that were filled with end of the world business and a very hard fall.

But he didn't want her or Leo or any of them stuck in another war. Not when they could be hurt or even that if time did move on, for whatever reason, then their fight with their own Giants would end badly. Besides, he couldn't protect them here and that was a gnawing fact that made him more annoyed with these Gods then his own. He was good with a sword, but a huge chunk of him was missing.

He at least had the common sense to look before responding.]

So, that's it. [To the point.] Should we start worrying? If the Gods didn't do this I'd hate to see who else is out there. Titans, maybe?

[Because he's enough experience to know that if the Gods say they aren't behind it that it's something worse.] --I'm guessing there's no chance in letting all of them leave.

[asgardswisdom]

The only other immortals you need to worry about are the Giants.

[ No Titans to speak of in this pantheon, tyvm. ]

Some of them have been bonded to the others. They'll stay. Everyone else will be leaving.

[unrestrained]

Giants. Why is it always giants? You'd think they'd get bored after a few thousand years.

[It's okay. He understands Giants just as well. Sort of what he's fighting now anyway back home.]

[What he was afraid of. Expected, but he could still hope.]

--So why is it so many people brought here don't know how to fight? [Are mortal, too, he wants to ask, but won't.]

[asgardswisdom]

Your primary duty isn't fighting.

[unrestrained]

Then we should just get coloring crayons and start coloring the walls? There was a fight a couple of days ago and half the people didn't seem to know how to fight.

[asgardswisdom]

Half the people should've stayed inside. We have defences when the city is under attack and we have people trained for when we need to hold our own front. They either learn to fight or get somewhere safe. They're not required on the battlefield.

[unrestrained]

[That doesn't seem to settle well with him, but makes more sense.] Okay, but aren't half of those guys gray? I don't see them being much help that way-- [Because he at least understands that. And it makes him feel slightly better that people that don't need to fight don't have to.] So, we just sit around here brightening things up and people are supposed to be okay with that? That sounds like it's going to go bad real fast. [...Like more people trying to fight when they can't even hold a sword.]

[asgardswisdom]

It's been over a year. Some of you have been here from the beginning. We're used to the bitching by now.

[unrestrained]

[Well, that's wordier than he's used to. Not all too different, but it does leave a sour taste in his mouth. Luckily he's sort of learned to shut his mouth.] Okay, right. But you can't honestly expect they weren't going to complain-- But I'm saying, when things go bad and they're involved-- how are they supposed to fight? I've seen some of these guys. They'd poke their eye out. And as far as I've seen people don't like to sit around and pretend nothing's happening when something's rampaging the city.

[asgardswisdom]

As I said. They either learn, or they don't. I can't dictate their level of involvement.

[unrestrained]

...So it's up to us to try and train them? [He can guess not force, that's dumb. But this is sounding more familiar.]

[asgardswisdom]

If you want someone reliable at your back.

[unrestrained]

Got it. [So used to it but he pauses.] Do you guys happen to have any training regiments against these guys? Or is it just charge and hope for the best?

[asgardswisdom]

[ A beat. ]

Would you believe you're the first person in the two-hundred and ninety-five days you guys have been here to ask me how to fight back against them?

[unrestrained]

Wait--really? No one's thought to ask? That seems kind of important to me. We can't do anything if we don't know. Even I know that much. [Well, he has to, but.] No wonder you guys don't seem to care for us.

[asgardswisdom]

[ He doesn't have anything for that that isn't blatantly obvious in his disdain for everything involving the Travellers. So he just moves on to business. ]

They're uncoordinated. There are always going to be true believers, but most of the Giants fight for their sovereign because they don't know any better and they are obligated to do so. They fight out of self-preservation over loyalty.

[ Thiazi and Surt are not kind and benevolent rulers. ]

This makes it easy to pick them off. If you can fan them out and get them isolated, most of them will either trip up or run. But they're not terribly bright either, they just barrel in head first. They have us in numbers, not in strength. They're uncoordinated. We can't afford to be.

[unrestrained]

[He takes a moment to process that. The Giant army rings hauntingly familiar to Percy: Kronos's army. Of Luke and how he had to act or bad things would happen, Silena, too. And those that thought things would work out if they joined. It was all too familiar.]

So some of them are brainwashed? What about the ones who aren't loyal, do you think they could turn sides? [If it kept them safe, he meant.]

[He pauses.] How many of them are there to us? Like all of us, if Travelers worked with you. Can one of us defeat them one if we have to? Back home it has to be us and the Gods working together, so it would really be helpful if we could if it came down to it. [Especially if there's a lot of them. It'd be like fighting monsters.] I'm guessing if the lower ranking guys are easy picking you Gods need to focus on the big guys.

[asgardswisdom]

[ He snorts, derisive. ]

They will never betray their rulers. They would suffer a far worse fate than anything we can divine or prevent.

[ But - for the latter, Odin leans forward. ]

My sons fought beside you in the final battle. My family stood and fell on the same field you did. This was our war first and it will end with us, one way or another.

[ They live or die, simple as that. ]

[unrestrained]

So we really can't bribe them- -with like donuts or something?

[When a god leans forward you learn to take it seriously. But he also knows that when gods have to they fight-- they just liked sending heroes on silly quests, so it wasn't that much of a surprise.]

Except we're here now, too. And we should help if we can. [A frown.] Because it's not your war anymore if it involves all of us.