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mjolnir_retriever[Millitimed to Saturday]
When Thor requested mulled wine of Bar, he was greeted also with a note. Before he left that day, a reply was left with Bar.
Thor can read English and any language, with the Allspeak, though a scholar would tell him he was missing subtleties in translation. (Thor is no scholar, and subtleties aren't his strongest point anyway.) However, he can't write in it; the Allspeak touches the brain's comprehension, not the hand's shaping of letters. So the original of this note was written in a tidy script that looks like nothing on any Earth. But Bar assured him (via napkin message) that she could translate it -- and, indeed, the note Darcy receives will be in English, in an angular and slightly archaic-looking but perfectly legible hand.
To Darcy Lewis of Midgard:
(There's no indication in a note of how long Thor stalled here.)
My father is alive, as are my mother and I and all my friends whom you met. I fear my brother is likely not.
I would gladly share beer and such movies as you wish, my friend.
If you see Jane, I ask you to tell her for me that I would return as I promised if I could do so. I cannot. The Bifrost was broken, and all other roads between the realms carry such prices as I cannot ask Asgard to pay, if they are not closed to all but sorcerers far greater than I. Its destruction was necessary. But I have broken my word to Jane by it, and I regret that deeply. I hope one day to fulfill my promise, though I know not when. Midgard and Puente Antiguo became very dear to me in those few days of your generous hospitality.
By my hand and in friendship,
Thor son of Odin
When Thor requested mulled wine of Bar, he was greeted also with a note. Before he left that day, a reply was left with Bar.
Thor can read English and any language, with the Allspeak, though a scholar would tell him he was missing subtleties in translation. (Thor is no scholar, and subtleties aren't his strongest point anyway.) However, he can't write in it; the Allspeak touches the brain's comprehension, not the hand's shaping of letters. So the original of this note was written in a tidy script that looks like nothing on any Earth. But Bar assured him (via napkin message) that she could translate it -- and, indeed, the note Darcy receives will be in English, in an angular and slightly archaic-looking but perfectly legible hand.
To Darcy Lewis of Midgard:
(There's no indication in a note of how long Thor stalled here.)
My father is alive, as are my mother and I and all my friends whom you met. I fear my brother is likely not.
I would gladly share beer and such movies as you wish, my friend.
If you see Jane, I ask you to tell her for me that I would return as I promised if I could do so. I cannot. The Bifrost was broken, and all other roads between the realms carry such prices as I cannot ask Asgard to pay, if they are not closed to all but sorcerers far greater than I. Its destruction was necessary. But I have broken my word to Jane by it, and I regret that deeply. I hope one day to fulfill my promise, though I know not when. Midgard and Puente Antiguo became very dear to me in those few days of your generous hospitality.
By my hand and in friendship,
Thor son of Odin
