Brand spanking new, yet so very very ancient

[allmothering]

I have seen many versions of my sons in this place, and even once have I seen my husband.

Yet I have never seen myself, in any iteration. What sort of strange realm is this?

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[dusk_and_dawn]

I am your son. Balder.

I have met brothers who knew me not, but I was not expecting this. Perhaps I am not yet born? [He is kind of important, Ragnarok-wise.]

[allmothering]

[/sob. I know, It's just hard to navigate movies/comics/myth. She'd love you if she knew you, I promise!]

It is a possibility, or perhaps our frames of existence run alongside one another, only intersecting in places such as this.

[dusk_and_dawn]

[He imagines a universe without himself for a moment. Would there be no Ragnarok, or would it just be someone else's fate to die?]

In either case, I am grateful to see you. It has been too long.

[allmothering]

Indeed it has. For me, it has been a lifetime. Come, dear Balder, will you sit and tell your mother of your life?

[dusk_and_dawn]

[Let's not mention the part where he didn't know she was his mother...]

You have never been anything but kind to me or any other. I have long thought your temperance to be vital to the ruling to the realm and all its inhabitants. I could speak not a single ill word of you.

[allmothering]

Well, now, you have told me such wonderful things about myself, but what about you? What of this handsome son who has grown to be so kind.

[dusk_and_dawn]

Ah, I serve the realm as best I can by Thor's side.

[Not gonna mention the king thing because SUCKS SO MUCH what else can he say uh]

I play the lyre as well. [...yeeeeah]

[allmothering]

Oh, would that there one at hand so I could hear you play.

I am gladdened to hear that my son has such a capable brother at his side.