asgardswisdom | IC CONTACT;

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❝ Keep it short. ❞

[ feel free to use this for all your Allpapa needs! please pardon any lateness, and Odin may or may not feel inclined to respond depending on the importance/intelligence of the message, though I'll be sure to respond to all comments even if it's just a "quit wasting my time!" ]

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So it could be bad that our worlds are all connected to this. Is that what you're saying?

[Alvin sighs, frustrated. This isn't good news. The second point is something he digests. He'll listen. He doesn't know where else he's gonna stand. The one good thing, Alvin thinks, is that it's illogical to play the field. There's no temptation to betray people if he might die either way.]

My world is already about to die. I want to secure it. Not just from Ragnarok, but from itself.

The Grey Sickness should be the least of your concerns if your world is connected to this.

[ What with the whole thing dying and all. Priorities, man! ]

That's something you'll have to do from within. We can't change the path of a leaf if it's chosen to break from its branch. Your thread of existence will always be there, but it's up to you to see it continue to thrive.

Say I did work from within, but with knowledge from a place like this. Would that count as interfering?

It's an impossibility. You're taken from a set point in time, you will be returned to a set point in time. Everything that happens here will be forgotten when you return.

Then how do I change that?

You don't.

How often do you get asked this question?

You have no idea.

Do you believe that all things come to be as they're meant to be, or do you believe in human folly as a factor? Or god's folly, if you will. You put a lot of weight in prophecies around here.

The thing about our prophecies is that they come from the Mother herself. She is alive, and she is sentient in her ways. Things unfold as they will and she reads the direction we take as a sign for the future. Some things can be changed, she's told us as much before.

Can all things be changed? Do you believe that?

[It's not a question asked in doubt, but in curiosity.]

No.

[ Immediate, flat. He won't give more than that, not when it's something that borders on personal. ]

I'm inclined to agree with you, which is why we're having this conversation. But I know a handful of people who'd hate that, and I can hear their nagging little voices in the back of my head.

[He actually pauses.]

Which makes me sound crazy, but y'know. Actual people here. Just not here.

[ . . . ]

I got that.

Hey, I'm just making sure. Some people are smartasses about the littlest things.

[People like Alvin.]

Are you done?

[ Go play with Loki instead. ]

Sure. We're good here.

[ Cheers, Alvin. ]

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