Muse is...Jotunnheim, instead of an actual character, because I fail at bandwagons.

[itisforbidden]

Strange creature.

I thought you disliked the cold.

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[desceptre]

...well. It appears this place does attract all sorts.

[itisforbidden]

...is that all you have to say?

[brosif]

Most do.

[itisforbidden]

She has never known cold.

The child whines whenever she does not swelter.

[sorcerous]

She is bound by her flesh.

[brosif]

No. I suppose she hasn't.

You live.

[anticking]

And no doubt she fears the shadow, but seeks to understand it all the same.

[itisforbidden]

And yet.

[bittyfun]

You're not so frightening.

[itisforbidden]

She fears smaller things.

[sorcerous]

How can she escape a cage that runs to the bone?

[itisforbidden]

Should I be?

[anticking]

She will learn, or she won't.

Hello, again. Soon, I think, I will come to you. That is, if you still allow that my blood is enough to grant me passage to your realm.

[itisforbidden]

It is not a matter of escape.

[bittyfun]

Jotunnheim is a monstrous place.

[sorcerous]

Defy, then.

[itisforbidden]

Do I?

[itisforbidden]

Circumvent.

[sorcerous]

A sort of defiance.

[itisforbidden]

I am invoked.

And yet.

Her marrow thrums unfrozen.

[itisforbidden]

You ask permission?

[This incremental elevation of an eye-ridge, this is as close as he comes to shock.]

[sorcerous]

Just give her time. I am sure your old, rotten relics will win her over.

keywords ;n;

[itisforbidden]

The place would not harm you, princeling.

[The people, perhaps, sure enough. But he has nothing to fear from the cold.]

[anticking]

I haven't always, I'll grant you that. A boy's mischief. We came only to steal a trophy, to prove we had been there, and we killed none; I had no wish to hurt a creature whose only crime was defending his home.

It all turned well, in the end.

But I must know. I must know what life it was that I could have had. I must know what I am, in order to know who. I can only find that with you.

[bittyfun]

I heard you eat children.

[ Which he doubts, personally; it's destroying their own future. ]