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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[chilled]

Hello, Mother.

One of strange magics foreign to Asgard.

[ex_flyting687]

I doubt any answer to that question would ever suffice.

My Queen - it's been some time.

[allmothering]

Is it safe, this place of strange magics?

[allmothering]

Has it been so long that you must be formal? You are still my son, and I your mother.

[chilled]

Safe enough. Regardless, no harm shall come to you in my presence.

[dusk_and_dawn]

Quality, not quantity, Allmother.

'Tis a place betwixt realms with shades of each.

[ex_flyting687]

It's been long enough, since the fall. [And I miss you more than I thought I should allow, but that is neither here nor there, now.]

You are well?

[allmothering]

So it seems, for I know you not and yet you are familiar to me somehow, like a shape formed in a passing cloud.

[allmothering]

I would be better were you to come home, so I can prove with my own eyes that you are all right.

I miss you, we all do.

[allmothering]

My sweet child. I am indebted to your offer. Are there likely to be many dangers to us, here?

[odinsons]

Is that something you wish for, Mother? I cannot believe it to be all that settling to see another of yourself.

[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]

I am merely curious as to why some denizens of Asgard seem to be so numerous while others are near totally forgotten.

[odinsons]

[ ready for this cheese? ] Perhaps it is because there is only one you.

[chilled]

None that I have encountered, but danger is a creature that lurks in every shadow.

[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.

[allmothering]

[ where are my nachos? ]

You flatter me beyond reason. Already in this place I have seen two of Loki, and a third child I never knew, named Balder. It is unlikely (and somewhat selfish) to think there is only one of me.

Besides, if I were but one I could not have enough love for all these instances of my children.

[allmothering]

Then we shall stand together and face whatever may come. How lucky am I, to be traveling this strange realm with a master of shadows to guide me.

[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.

[ex_flyting687]

You can see me now. This must be more than enough.

[He holds out a hand to her, but doesn't walk on over.]

[allmothering]

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

[allmothering]

[ Then she will take it upon herself to close the distance between them. ]

It could never be enough, but it will suffice, for now, if it is all I can have.

[ex_flyting687]

[ And he will draw you close, to hold and never let go, if only time and space would permit him to keep you. ]

You would want me back? Even after all this?

[allmothering]

[ TT__TT ]

After all this, after whatever is to come. No matter what, you are my son and you have a place in my home and my heart.

[sorcerous]

A world in which hatred and manipulation thrive enough to chill the bone, and love and motherhood is scarce as it is sweet.