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[intelligently]

Just before I get started, just in case anyone wanted to say 'oh hey, Lydia, you're back'? I am but I'm not. I know that I've been here before, I was happily told that, but I don't remember it. So for anyone that did know me you might want to reintroduce yourself first.

Now that that's out of the way, I've been doing some reading. With everything that has happened and is supposed to I want to know what I'm going to be in for. Apparently that's not the easiest thing to do. Not concisely, anyway. But what's a network full of people for if not to help someone out?

One of the gods has died before and it saved us when we should have died. [ That she found out from the network rather than a book, helpful soul ] Have any of the others died or was it just this one? Because I'm assuming that we're still in a war, so what's happened since and why was that incident so different? Cliff notes version, preferably.

[ She'll get the longer version from her books later. Or from this next part ]

And if you did know me before? We need to have coffee. At least say hello.

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[frothing]

You were here before and don't remember it?

[intelligently]

That's what I said. When I got here someone knew me but I didn't know them.

[frothing]

Well, that's just peachy.

[intelligently]

Maybe this time we can finally end this and stop everyone coming back twice... or more.

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[whitechocolate]

The shopaholic girl? I remember you. Hey.

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[intelligently]

You say that like it's a bad thing. [ Not that she considered herself a shopaholic but shopping was very enjoyable ] Do I get a name?

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[whitechocolate]

It's not a bad thing. It's great thing if you have money. [ Unfortunately Sam doesn't have much of that back home. Sam has cared less and less about material things ever since his family lost everything and had to start again from scratch. ] Sam Evans.

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[intelligently]

Or if you know how to shop. [ Considering that Lydia didn't currently have any money she was going to guess that she hadn't been rich last time. Bargaining and haggling it was? ] How long have you been here?

[livedtwice]

Not too long ago, Thor nearly sacrificed himself in a similar way to save everyone. It's surprising that he didn't die, really. But everyone's forgotten it.

[He knows he sounds fairly bitter, but he's ... honestly very bitter about the subject, as these things go.]

[intelligently]

Everyone except you. [ And that was a very good thing for you. And her. She likes that you remembered ] What stopped him from dying?

[livedtwice]

He managed to do it all in time. I think Odin might have helped, but I'm not certain. It was a close call.

[Harry's not certain because of his own lacking information around that time, and, again, no one talks about it.]

[intelligently]

Adding wisdom to his strength makes sense, and could explain why it was all done.

[ Although if they could do some things and stop that part of the war then why not everything? What had those brought here done that they couldn't? ]

What about us, then? If Odin and Thor managed to stop whatever they stopped, what are we doing that they can't? Minus the colour.

[freewoman]

What do you know about the war? [Possibly intrigued because you're a redhead, too.]

[intelligently]

Mostly what the welcome wagon mentions. The greyness is a disease, the war leads to Ragnarok. One god died, another apparently nearly has. It's been going on for a while.

[freewoman]

And how likely are you to be believin' they're true? [Everything that's said.]

Never met a person who steals who doesn't lie.

[intelligently]

They'll be lying about some of it. If they were telling the truth we'd know everything. Finding someone who's been here a while might be better than just trusting what they say.

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[comeonthensexy]

Why would it be different?

Hello again.

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[intelligently]

Hello... stranger. And if only one god has died and not others something has to have happened to stop the others dying, or they've not gone as much into the fight as the other one did.

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[comeonthensexy]

I suppose the only difference is that he blew himself up. It wasn't any of the opponents' doing.

[sufferably]

You talking about the same god that resurrected, or a different one?

( he has gleaned only bits of information, but it seems worth knowing if more than one has snuffed it. )

[intelligently]

I hadn't gotten to that bit yet. So all of the gods are alive then?

[sufferably]

I don't have a roster to do a headcount with.

But I heard that one died and came back, and another almost died. Not sure if anything was left outta that story, though.

[Video]

[dragonspeak]

You know me again...sort of.

And...no, none of the others have died before. Like Harry said, Thor nearly did recently, but Freyr's the only one who's actually died.

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[intelligently]

I know that I somehow managed to dress you.

[ She's impressed by herself. Most people protest loudly. Okay Jackson protested loudly so this guy gets points ]

And Freyr also came back to life. How?

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[dragonspeak]

You were really persuasive. [Read: You never gave him a chance to protest.]

Er, well. The gods got involved and saved his soul from the Frost Queen, who had been holding onto it to make herself stronger.

[There’s really not a less dramatic way to say it.]