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[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

[Conan beams. Pure, unadulterated, cheerfulness might not be enough to distract from the drab, gloomy interior of Hel's hall, but he's trying hard.]

Ne -- I was thinking! I've heard a lot of people wondering why we were here -- not the reason in the letter. Why us and not anyone else! So that got me thinking -- maybe we'll find out the answer sooner if we ask questions to a lot of people at once!

I've got one for everyone -- sorry if it's a bit weird, but try and answer the best you can, okay? I bet it'll be useful in the long run. Anyway -- how important are you in your world?

I'll be waiting for your answer -- thank you!

[And clicking the feed off, Conan lets out a sigh, massaging sore cheek muscles. Tch ... this better work ... ]

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voice.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Minato-san, got it!

Ne, Aragorn-san ... do you know if anyone from your world is here?

voice.

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

There is but one.

voice.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

You've found Boromir-san then?

voice.

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

... How do you know that name?

voice.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Someone who met him recognised your name -- we thought he might be looking for you.

voice.

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

... Ah. Indeed, I have found him. [ A considering pause. ]

May I have the name of the one who had met him?

[voice - now filtered to Aragorn]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

[Short pause -- Conan's trying to figure out if it's possible to lock a comment to a particular person. What do you know -- it is!] Merlin-san. He's really nice! I think he wants to be helpful -- so if you don't want people knowing you're a King, you'd better talk to him fast.

[voice - now filtered ]

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

[ What are filters. He just continues, oblivious, and he shakes his head. ]

I have no shame of my station, but I have no throne to claim, here.

[voice - now filtered ]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

That's good! We were worried it might have been a secret.

[voice - now filtered ]

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

There is little need to announce it.

[voice - now filtered ]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

That makes sense to me.

[voice - now filtered ]

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

Thank you. [ Softly. ]

The man of whom you mentioned- Boromir. He is my Steward, [ a pause, and he knows he will have to explain this. ] as essential to me as a quill or pen to a scholar.

[voice - now filtered ]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

--ha! I guess that makes him very important then.

Are the both of you in the same Welcome Hall?

[voice - now filtered ]

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

Nay. He resides in the House of Thor, while I have been chosen by Odin.

[ A pause. ]

And you, in the House of Hel.

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[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

And me in Hel.

[Not happy about that at all.]

[voice - now filtered ]

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

[ You hear the headtilting in his voice. ]

Do you disagree with being chosen by Hel?

[voice - now filtered ]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

I can't argue that it doesn't fit -- being a detective does mean that you see a lot of the darker side of life and death. But being put here over someplace like Odin ... it's not exactly much of a compliment, is it?

[voice - now filtered ]

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

[ A little sharply: ]

You know the qualities the gods look for?

[voice - now filtered ]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

The qualities the gods look for -- that might be it. I'd thought it was an affinity to a particular god but ...

[So many things to consider.]

[voice - now filtered ]

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

Please, tell me more about that.

[voice - now filtered ]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Well -- I don't know as much as I'd like yet. But Odin's the all-father, the king of the Norse gods in the legends of my world, and the library's in his district. Sigyn, all I know is that she's the wife of Loki, but there's a hospital in her district and a girl I met who lives there -- one of us -- was able to heal a cut without knowing how she did it. Thor's thunder and a warrior, Hel -- well, all I know about her is that she's associated with death.

[voice - now filtered ]

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

[ All-father. The Eru Iluvatar. Sigyn, the healer, like Nienna. Thor the warrior, like Tulkas. Hel- of death, like Mandos of the Valar, husband of Vairë the Weaver.

Aragorn breathes in quietly. ]

A child does not suit the House of Death and Doom. Does Hel judge the dead, and know their lives through the tapestries woven by her spouse??

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[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

[That's -- an interesting question, Aragorn.]

If she does, I haven't heard about it.

[voice - now filtered ]

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

These gods- they seem to be the Valar I know, under a different name.

If so, then Eru Ilúvatar himself has chosen me.

[voice - now filtered ]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

The Valar? Is that -- a house of gods?