025 - Video

[samantha_grey]

[Someone's wearing something horrible.. Seriously, with hair that red, something this green was just an abomination that made her look like a demented elf, one with a grimace on its face. There was a cup of something steaming in her hands and she was looking out the window from what looked like her bed. A knee curled up and her wrist was visible. The stone on her bracelet wasn't the same as it should have been. The color was similar to Hel's, but lighter. Anyone in Freya would know it. Anyone who knew Samantha well would also know she'd been asleep for the last several days, unable to be woken.]

Hmmph. unfinished damned business. Story of my life. First sign to know that you're definitely back in this place? Someone plays a magical prank on you and shoves you in this thing. Thanks, whoever you are. I needed that right now. Really. Probably Loki.

[She sighed and reached up to pinch her nose before taking a sip from her cup and wincing in annoyance. One of her blood red eyes glanced out of the corner at the feed.]

If anyone was worried, I'm sorry. Seems Freya thought I needed to see something, or maybe I actually was there... Fuck, I don't know. Least it didn't actually all blow up. I'll... pass on doing that again, especially not if what I'm going to find out was that Henry was actually right about something. [She spat to the side, out the window.]

Screw it. I've got work that needs doing, and I've apparently got entirely too much unfinished. Damned demons. There's some research I'm going to be starting tomorrow, and I need something from Utgard to finish it. Right. I'll be back in a while. Please, the lot of you, try not to destroy this damned city while I'm gone. If you need me, now's the time.

(OOC: Samantha has returned from her Canon Update and is Freya now! Please note that 371 is the LAST day you can contact her before January, as she is about to lead a secret raid on Muspelheim. If you'd like a log or action tags in your inbox, give me a PM.)

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[flightofdeath]

Research in Utgard? Entailing what, if I may ask?

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[samantha_grey]

Potions work. I've got bubbling projects that won't finish themselves without the supplies I need. I can't wait for the next train. Soon as the snow's done, I'm out.

[Total bullshit. She's going to Muspelheim, but it was a convenient smokescreen. She'd left herself notes in her house in case something like this happened. They'd helped get her head wrapped around what she'd been doing. It was still a bit of a jumble.

At least lying was easier in text.]

private text SORRY ABOUT THE WAIT latroma you're awesome and i have pacing issues i'm sry

[flightofdeath]

And the sort of supplies available in Utgard that you are unable to access here in Asgard?

[He has no true reason to doubt her, aside from his general air of disbelief he holds to in general. This questioning is more out of curiosity than attempting to find a hole in her story, due to most of his research of the magic available in Asgard being rune based, he does not have a whole lot of know how on the potioneering side of it.]

np

[samantha_grey]

Normally have to have it imported, but that takes extra time, and I'm in a hurry. Some projects don't wait.

[For the moment, she hasn't made the connection between him and Voldemort, and even then she wouldn't refuse him, not until she found out about Ellie at least. Their next conversation would be ... interesting.

For now, though it was all civil bunnies and kitties, and the questions are pretty normal.]

[necrowmantic]

Wow, I was right about something...? Imagine that!

What was it?

[samantha_grey]

Of course you'd notice.

[No, she didn't sound just a little pissed off about that fact. That was just your imagination.]

Fine. Sating some of my urges helped.

[necrowmantic]

You called me by name! It'd be stranger if I didn't notice!

[He just laughs though, bright as ever.]

So how many'd you off before you were feeling better?

[samantha_grey]

[She wasn't going to comment on the fact that he clearly still watched her video feeds from time to time. It just didn't seem... necessary.]

Nobody. The impulse was only murderous because of something else making it worse in me. It's related to an instinct to feed. I just started nibbling is all.

['Nibbling' might have been the under-statement of the year. A few of her partners had been less... durable than others, and had barely come out of their encounters alive. She'd had to learn to be choosy about that.]

[Voice]

[kuramaless]

[Seeing Samantha up and about and well is enough to make him smile. He's pleased, relieved if he's honest but this might just be the first time he's tried to make contact since then, and-- well. It should be weird...

He's unable to reply by video for some strange reason.]

So, you're in Freya now?

Video - because she can

[samantha_grey]

[So, that totally happened for her not but a few days ago... and at the same time, that totally happened to someone she'd forgotten existed back almost a year and change ago. She's kissed a fairly large number of people since then, so she's having a little trouble remembering completely why she was awkward around this one.

...well other than joking that Naruto was gay for Sasuke. She offered him a faintly smug smirk.]

Yeah. I think she wanted to prove a point. It's proven, either way. I belong here more than Hel house... at least now.

Voiceeeeee. For the time being I'm sure.

[kuramaless]

[She's not taking to teasing him-- and he has to wonder how much she remembers if she's been asleep.

Loki had forgotten everything when he got back. Which was sad. If Sam forgot too, he thinks he'd be upset by that too.

She's got that smug look on her face though.]

Yeah? Hel's kinda creepy. I like this place.

[samantha_grey]

[Nope. She remembered everything. But, it was like the little demons in her head were scrambling to get the filing cabinets back in order, while having a conga line during the office Christmas party. The tea she was sipping wasn't doing a great job of calming her nerves, but it wasn't hurting either.]

Freya's better than Hel. Hel, and it's like she wants to remind me how many times I died. Freya... well, and it reminds me of my mother. I'll take Freya over Hel.

...

You might not want to kiss me again, by the way.

[Yep, that filing cabinet slotted that one back in, right about then.]

[Video]

[comeonthensexy]

Didn't blow up? Hey, that's great!

[Video]

[samantha_grey]

... mostly, yes. [There was a familiar face.] It was some sort of mass wave. It teleported almost everyone who wasn't entirely human away, into the ether. Nearly helped destroy the world. We sort of came back over time.

[Video]

[comeonthensexy]

Oh.

[ Not humans noooooo. ]

Well. It's something.

[Video]

[samantha_grey]

It was definitely that. I never did figure out who was responsible. Toying with things beyond their control if you ask me.

...

But you were right about something. I remember that distinctly, even with my mind a jumble.

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[foodshortage]

Shall I say good luck?

[Video | Private]

[samantha_grey]

[ahem. she gives Uther a very small look. He was sensible, they both knew what they were talking about.]

I hear the streets of Utgard can be tricky at times. I'd appreciate it, Uther. You help hold the fort down while i'm gone?

[Video]

[ofthursday]

It seems many of us are remembering more of home as of late.

You changed houses?

[Video]

[samantha_grey]

It seems so. [Memories filed. Refiled. Yes, he'd done that dance before.] It's disorienting ... trying to decide what happened first. Which way to feel.

And yes. Freya, apparently, though I know why.

[Video]

[ofthursday]

It is extremely confusing, but it will sort itself out in short time.

[It took Castiel about a day to be back to normalish, and he hopes it's just as fast for her.]

That is a large change. Is it a welcome one?

[He knows she wasn't fond of her power before.]

[Video]

[samantha_grey]

[She seemed to think about it for a moment, frowning briefly in consternation before she replied.]

The power she chose... I would have hated it before I think, but now... now I can deal with it. As for the why.

It's mostly good, but it came at a price.

[Video; private] (Yes, she learned how to do that, finally.)

[1000tinycuts]

[Temari stares at Sam for a minute before smirking.]

I may not be that into fashion, Sam, but that sweater...thing doesn't really suit you. I would...burn it.

Welcome back, however, to the land of the awake. [She hadn't been too worried when she hadn't been able to reach the succubus, but it wasn't easy to not be able to contact one of the few people she actually...liked.]

Aside from that, is there something you need from me?

Good timing!

[samantha_grey]

Yeah, yeah, Du... [She reached up and pinched her nose. No. She wasn't home. It was ... Temari, right. There was a quick shudder and then she shook her head to clear it.]

It's still taking a minute to get my memories back in order. I'm fine, just ... I dreamed of the last year and a half of my life in my world. It's a little disorienting.

You're going to go shopping with me in Utgard tomorrow, Temari. My head should be on straight by then. Pack for travel. [She gave her a look, a warning look. She was pretty certain that Temari would understand they werent talking about Ugard.]

Re: Good timing!

[1000tinycuts]

[She lets the near miss of her name pass. The other woman had been missing for a while, so the kunoichi just assumed it had to do with the way the world worked.]

Dreams and shopping? How unlike you.

And I require very little for travel. I will be ready.