Huldra

"Always do your best, what you plant now, you will harvest later."                            Huldra, thirteenth handmaiden of the Goddess Frigg. The goddess of hard labor, who rewards those who toil. 

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      “Well, what if I need pain relief?” It wasn’t a lie, actually. Fox was a walking vessel for pain and suffering, not that anyone would ever know that beside her. It wasn’t something she shared, even with her closest of friends. “C’mon, Hul, I deserve a little treat every once in a while, don’t I? So what if they had a little bit of opium in them, they’re good.”

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“It is dangerous, zahar.” Huldra knew the dangers of opium, the high addiction rate and all that, especially in humans. But she wasn’t a healer, only a huldra, so who would get mad at her, if Fox had a little. Only Eir would. “Aoh...eat one. Only one.” That was her only insistence, that Fox not devour too much of the poppy cakes.  She couldn’t handle an overdose. 

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“A sword?” he blurted out in confusion, as it finally came to him what she was trying to say. Well, that or knives, but that hardly made a difference.  “You’ve never heard of a sword?! Humans aren’t the only ones to use them, you know.” He was so confused as to why she didn’t know what they were as, even on Jötunheimr, most of the men walked around with swords on their belts or on their backs. Many of the women, too. 

“Is that what you call them?” She had only seen them on humans, for only men carried them in her woods. And she had not the words to ask humans  what they called their possessions, even things as supposedly mundane as swords. “People at home don’t wear them.”

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“… Shiny things?” he asked, trying to think of the last time he saw a human, or even one carrying something he didn’t recognize. They had several things he wasn’t sure what they were, but he couldn’t recall if any of them were ‘shiny’.  “You’re going to have to be more specific.”

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“The long shiny things, that hang on their pant ropes.” She was trying to say swords, but couldn’t find the word for them. All she knew was they could not be made by her kind; metal was not common for them to have. “They fight with them.”

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      Fox sobbed against the other woman, feeling so weak and feeble, it was a feeling she absolutely hated. There was nothing strong about breaking down in front of another person and Fox always prided herself in being strong, even after everything she had ever been through. It was buried deep and locked away. But now, the tears for everything came gushing out. “But why?” 

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“Because you need comfort.” Huldra said shortly, stroking Fox’s hair and brushing through it with long, thin fingers. If brushing hair had helped others’, she was sure it would help assuage Fox, more than just holding her would. The rhythmic brush on her scalp certainly was a comfort to Huldra, and she was one of the least easy to comfort there was. “And I don’t let people cry.” 

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He shook his head, not all that surprised that she was perfectly happy to be naked once more. And here he’d been, trying to help. Ah well, it would be interesting watching reactions anyway. “Why are you so interested in the human huts? I don’t think they’re all that different.”

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“Humans create things I haven’t seen.” She explained, thinking of the shiny sticks she so often saw her meals carrying. Huldra had a collection of them at home by the river. “What are the shiny things they carry?’

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Closed Starter || Sif and Huldra

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~~ “Where art thou from?” Sif stood, leaning closer into the woman. “I like the accent. Come drink with me.” Sif wasn’t usually this friendly but one ale too many and the maiden was almost child like in her actions. 

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“The forest.” Huldra had no other description for it. She hadn’t known what human country they’d been in, only that their home was among the trees. “You do?” She thought that people heard her voice and thought her less intelligent for it. Then, her offer dawned on her. “Oh, I do not drink ale.” 

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Loptr laughed, snickering as he waved a hand to ‘help’ her out, after he had given her so much trouble. Of course, he followed her order to the letter  and got rid of it. And that left her without a shirt on anymore. And after struggling for so long with her clothing, too. “I’m sorry. I just wanted to see if you could handle it.”

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Unlike non-hulder women, she did not get upset at his ridding her of all of her clothes, instead grinned. “Better. Let’s go. I want to see human huts.” Huldra stood up quickly, glad to be freed of clothing at least. Sure, she’d stand out, but everyone knew it was bad luck to anger a hulder.

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      Fox was ever so careful to step only in the marks that Huldra made with her feet, keeping her balance fairly well through it all. There was no going back now, she’d never find her way without the other woman there to guide her. “Forgive me.” She breathed, as the ground began to rise and so too did they, she relinquished the white-knuckled grasp she had had on the other’s hand. “I was afraid of not stepping where you stepped.” It was only a small white lie, one that was mostly true either way. Saying she was afraid of water felt too foolish, a childish thing to say. 

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“You would not drown.” She assured, “But it would be a shock.” The water dropped quickly in certain spots, but experienced feet could lead another to safety. “This is why swamps have guides to lead you.” Besides, it was just comforting to know that someone knew the way through the murky green-brown waters. She understood that, despite being that person herself most of the time. Frigg and the rest took the easy ways, but she knew the swamp.

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Closed Starter || Sif and Huldra

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~~ Sif’s eyes narrowed. “‘Tis what we do.” She slurred, confused by the question. Did everyone not know that? She was glad she hadn’t ruined the woman’s dress, formal gowns here were expensive, she was lucky she had her mother to provide them for her. “Say……why dost thou sound the way ye do?” She tilted her own head, eyeing her, she felt overly curious toward her.

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She hardly was around the drinking festivities; Huldra hardly drank enough to enjoy them. But the dress that Syn had urged her to borrow from Hlin, who was of similar body, was not ruined at least. “I do not speak your tongue well.” She explained when the inevitable question of her accent, strangely like a burr, but vaguely german as well. It was a very hybridic voice

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Closed Starter || Sif and Huldra

~~ “Another!” Sif cried over the noise of the feast, dropping her chalice to the floor, laughing with her fellow warriors. The maiden had consumed an abnormal amount of alcohol, yet she had just returned from war. Her wounds had been tended too and she should be resting but she refused not to join in with the fun. She was aware of someone behind her as she threw another chalice but didn’t care, until she realised it hadn’t hit the floor. “Whoops, I didn’t get thee did I?” She slurred.

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“No.” She had the chalice in her hand, caught with the quick reflexes that helped her navigate the moors so easily, as well as manage a flock of goats and sheep. “Why smash the cup?” The hulder asked, tilting her head. Today, she had her tail hidden beneath a skirt, to blend in among the festivities, but her strange intonation and accent still made her stand out.

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      Fox opened her mouth to protest the shallows, wanting to say she’d go rather go back than wade through water, but she felt too childish for wanting to. Instead, she closed her hand tightly around Huldra’s, much tighter than was probably comfortable. Where the water hit her ankles, it wasn’t so bad, but as the water reached her knees, panic rose in her chest. “–Does it get any deeper than this?”

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“Och, no.” She replied, shaking her head while moving carefully, marking the ground with her feet so she knew the path she had memorized had not shifted in any ways. The pain in her hand was negligible, instead the feeling of her phalanges and metacarpals grinding together being a comfort, for she knew Fox would stay close that way. “This is the most deep.” She was right, of course, for as she inched forward the ground began to rise again.

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“You should have said so before pulling me out of bed.  Now that we are here, let us join in the merriment. Is there any ale?” 

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“Ale? Al, Elin, we have better. We have poppy. It makes for good trip, fun music.”

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He couldn’t help but snort at her comparison. He could just imagine what she would do if … His eyes lit up as he some how smothered a smirk. “Are you sure?” With a flick of magic, her shirt was suddenly made of chain mail. “How about now?”

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Her knees buckled under the unexpected weight, the shirt of mail dragging her down to the earth. The young huldra scowled at Loptr, upset at his trick.  “Get rid of it. Now.” She growled, though her mistake was not specifying  how she wanted him to do so. 

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maegtig:

❝ I have not heard truer words in an age, ❞ the journey for self had been hard in the beginning … and yet, once Magni had allowed himself to release his inhibitions and become one with nature once more, it became easier. It became a much needed quest of wandering for naught but the sake of wandering. And he was all the better for it. ❝ Hungry? That is good to hear ; to be surrounded by kin offer’s unmatched joy. ❞

“I am smarter than I sound.” She pointed out with a raise of the brows. In fact, behind slow, clumsy speech and only  the slightest understanding of the language, she was quite intelligent, just unable to express that wit. But unlike Magni, if she released her inhibitions her presence would become dangerous for all men around her, and she did not want that.  “It does. My sister is pretty, as always.”  

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“Wow, there is a crowd out here, is this festivity a constant?”

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“Yes, it is.” She nodded, “We like the music of Nøkken.”