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It is possible to embroider with only one eye. If you have enough practice at it, it is possible to do stunning embroidery with only one eye.

It is also possible, if you know exactly what to ask for, to get the softest and most fragile of materials from the Bar, which is why the...well, in her hands it looks like an over-large handkerchief, but is actually a small blanket...seems to be ready to nearly float away but for the stitches set into it.

It isn't a tapestry. Its...a pictorial Edda. Or bits of one.

Hel's choice of baby gifts may be weird.

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"Greetings."

She blinks down (way down) at Chao and then smiles a little bit,

"Thank you. I have a lot of practice."

"I'm sure," agrees Chao, admiring a scene of a hero finding a sword. "Not having opposable thumbs, I can only watch in amazement when beings make things like that."

"Jormundgand used to watch me, too."

She says with amusement, and she turns the blanket a little bit. She's big enough that she needs to sit on the floor these days,

"He doesn't even have limbs."

"Limbs are overrated," Chao laughs. "There are beings out there who can do wonderful things with two antennae and some telekinesis."

"Jormundgand mostly just ate things."

Again Hel is amused, and she sets her needle down long enough to gently scratch behind Chao's ears with her living hand because with her brothers she long ago got over the whole "Maybe a sentient animal won't like the same pettings" thing,

"I think I would miss not being able to sew, though. I am used to it."

The Pig flicks an ear happily and settles back to be scratched. "Nothing's wrong with eating all the time either. You can have excellent quality of life that way."

"This is true. And for a giant snake, it is at least amusing."

She can scratch for hours, really, and is good at picking up cues like the "a little to the left" head tilt,

"And what do you do, little Cousin?"

"Avoid telling people what the meaning of life is, mostly," Chao says. "And look mysterious. I like looking mysterious."

"I think you do very well at looking mysterious."

Number of pigs Hel has seen in her life: two. Counting Chao. The other one was a wild boar.

"Thank you," Chao says, beaming transcendently at Hel. "It's a difficult art. One has to practice."

Must...not...cuddle...tiny...adorable...beaming...piggy...

She nods, laughter dancing in her eye,

"The practice shows. You also have a good inscrutable."

"And an excellent smug, I'm told," Chao says, demonstrating the expression for Hel's benefit.

In so much as a nearly-full-grown half-dead goddess of death can look like an emoticon, Hel looks like this: :D!

"Yes, I would have to agree. That is an excellent smug."

SO CUTE!

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