𝟒 - day 265 (2/29), morning.

[skittering]

the papers say we have skalds now to study things for us. tell one of them to come get this stupid glowing sap. sick of thinking about it. can get you more if you need.


should also study why people sleep for a week and wake up like it never happened. weird. concerning


haven't seen mustard since before the snow. guess the gods take things away when you ask. not just give







and if you knew tuuri, she's gone

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[skittering]

❰ lalli doesn't entirely know what to say. he honestly shouldn't have said anything, that's what kicked off this sudden talk of who reynir cares about and what they've been through, but he did and now he has to wallow in it.

he shrugs a little. ❱ Guess so. ❰ as close to a yes as reynir is going to get. ❱

[draumstafir]

[ reynir knows better than to push at lalli for more on his end (he's already done so much, considering), but that hardly means he's going to limit himself in the same way.

and it's words that have been sort of stewing in his head for awhile now, since they'd all made the decision to go back out on another dangerous journey together at least, if not even longer. ]

I think I was supposed to find you guys. It's... hazy, before I figured out I had magic, but I remember having dreams on the boat. Like I was looking for something. Or someone.

[skittering]

Maybe. ❰ it's still reflex, for lalli, to assume that reynir does everything by accident - the screw-ups, but the good things too. he stumbles into them based on what he feels is the right thing to do, whether or not it actually is.

which doesn't actually disprove any of what the boy's said, it's just... harder for lalli to picture something so disastrous happening on purpose. through some kind of prewritten fate. finnish mages don't see omens. the future is unknowable for them, as it should be.

but maybe reynir's right. maybe something - a vision, a spirit that felt like a vision, or something else beyond either of their understandings - did lead them together. ❱ You found my haven. Shouldn't have been able to.

[draumstafir]

[ coming back home to iceland after learning he had magic had been a bit of an eye opening experience for reynir overall. he'd had to learn everything through observation and intuition out in the silent world, and while onni had tried to coach him through some things, it had very quickly become apparent to them both how different their magic was from one another.

of course he was still mostly running on intuition these days, even outside of their relocation to asgard throwing everyone's magic into a disarray. lessons back home had helped him get a better grip on staves, sure, but the focus had been so heavily on agriculture that he really only knew the basics of the things that really mattered to him.

dreams and omens were nothing new to his people, supposedly, but that still didn't mean that he ever knew what he was actually doing.

(his best. he's doing his best). ]

Hmmm. [ it's not the first time reynir's been told something like that in regards to the dreams, though it's still a bit tricky for him to wrap his head around considering he'd never had to make any sort of effort to find one of the finn's havens.

or at least, not until onni had gone running off into the bone filled waters alone, he hadn't. ]

Onni told me something similar when I found his. He actually accused me of being an evil spirit! He did that a lot, honestly. I've never really noticed anything in the dreams trying to keep me out of places though?

[ he rubs ruefully at his cheek with one hand in memory as he adds: ] Except for when you guys decided to throw trees at me, anyway.

[skittering]

❰ that finally earns a glance of mild intrigue. ❱ Onni threw trees at you? ❰ lalli only ever threw water, albeit a lot of it. maybe he should've tried trees. but here and now, he feels the slightest niggling guilt for thinking that. ❱

[draumstafir]

[ of course that's the part lalli latches onto, reynir can't even really pretend to be surprised, really. ]

Not the first time. He just shook me like a dog with a bone that time. Later, he...

[ was upset with reynir for keeping hush about tuuri. something that reynir doesn't exactly want to bring up right now, with them both at least slightly distracted from brooding over that exact subject.

his eyes go a little dim for a moment, before catching gunnar's tail square in the face when the cat senses his brewing upset and whips it angrily in response. ] Argh, what was that for?

[skittering]

❰ lalli can't even begin to fathom why reynir trailed off. maybe he doesn't remember the details? the look in his eye suggests otherwise, for the brief seconds before the cat (the poorly-trained one of course, neither of lalli's) pummels him in the face with a puff of tail.

'what was that for?' ❱

You put a cat near your face. ❰ pointed out like 'obviously you're going to get hit with some sort of feline body parts'. ❱

[draumstafir]

He put himself near my face. [ reynir protests weakly, shoving the tail away from his face with one hand. ]

I do not make decisions for Gunnar.

[skittering]

You should, ❰ retorts lalli, casting a boredly withering glance at the cat in question. ❱

[draumstafir]

Why?

[ as if the errant tail he's currently in battle with isn't reason enough, really, but putting that aside... said cat is matching lalli's withering stare with remarkable focus. ]