@rzrbladewings Heimdall grunted as they tumbled through the portal, rolling away from her and coming to a stop just a few feet away. He panted and sat up on his knees, looking around. His remaining arm reached out to pat the fire off her wings, hand shaking.
"Why did you do that...?"
Drifting.
It's...not cold. Not warm. Just...lonely. Odin robbed him of his Valhalla, wouldn't allow the remaining Valkyries to take him. He felt weightless, floating in some hellish, ruined corner of Valhalla as if in water.
@rzrbladewings Something solid. For the first time in...he didn't even know how long. He gasped, gripping her arm desperately. Had she really broken Valhalla's rules for him? He couldn't believe it...
He looked around at what had been his prison, realizing his vision was still blurry.
Oh.
@rzrbladewings No. No. Heimdall wasn't worth the punishment for Freya being there...
"Leave! You need-" He slipped under the water and came back up coughing, wheezing softly and splashing some. "Freya, go!"
@rzrbladewings Come here, his hand broke the water. He gasped and pulled himself up further, hair and skin and clothing soaked.
"Freya...? Mother!" He was struggling to stay afloat, awkwardly swimming towards her voice. "You...shouldn't be here...you'll burn!"
@rzrbladewings A voice. Freya...
Could it be?
He could hear her clearer now, forcing himself to focus. His eyes had dimmed now, barely able to see. But he forced himself to move, pulling himself what he hoped to be upward with one arm...
Until for the first time since he'd died and--
@rzrbladewings Heimdall opened his eyes, for the first time in...he didn't even know how long. He tried to narrow down where it was from, but couldn't. He didn't know up from down, reaching with his remaining arm. Was he finally going insane?
Freya was cursing softly to herself, quickly splashing water onto a few deep gashes from her latest quarry. A mad boar had been attacking a village and its tusks had been as long as her forearm.
@rzrbladewings He was smiling, listening to her hum. She'd been robbed of so much that he was happy to see her happy. He was happy to be near her again. Winter had settled in Asgard after she'd left, even when the sun shined so brightly.
He was keeping his distance from that blood, though.