Return of the hung-over Viking

[bigarmy_strangepants]

[[OOC: Context: Ragnar had some very uncomfortable ideas planted in his head by young!Moriarty, and then walked off into the mountains to get drunk think about them.]]


The back door to the lake and garden opens, and Ragnar Lothbrok walks in. He looks a bit dirty and scruffy, and if you get close, you'll notice that he smells of unwashed Viking.

He walks up to the bar and orders a pint of beer, which he drains to over half mark before putting it down again. He sighs, opens his magical belt pouch, gets out a bottle and puts it on the bar counter where it vanishes.

And another.

And another.

And another...

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[bigarmy_strangepants]

Ragnar looks alarmed. "Gyda? No! What's the matter with Gyda?"

[guppy_sandhu]

"Nothing that I know of - I just heard she moved to a new world." Guppy says quickly. "It's not like you to be so on edge, Ragnar."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"Ganymede took her in," Ragnar says. "Off combination, but it seems to work. This is Milliways, after all."

[guppy_sandhu]

"So if it's not that, what happened?" Guppy asks gently.

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"I just needed to think a bit," Ragnar says. "About ideas from the future I didn't know before."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy gets two coffees, sliding one over to Ragnar.

"Such as?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"Er, thank you?" Ragnar says, accepting the coffee as if he didn't know what it was for.

He probably doesn't.

"Future people know more about how minds work than we do, it seems."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Not Lecter being a prick again, I hope?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"No, not Lecter," Ragnar says. "What about Lecter?"

All he knows is that the man is one of Sinric's, well, other partners.

[guppy_sandhu]

"He's just a general prick."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"Well, yes, probably."

One that Sinric enjoys close contact with, even.

[guppy_sandhu]

"You're not being very revealing." Guppy smiles slightly.

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"I feel very stupid," Ragnar says. "People from the future know so much more, and it makes sense."

[guppy_sandhu]

"I'm sure there's things that you know that people from the future don't." Guppy says. "Skills for example."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"Skills that are completely useless in the future, like navigating with a sunstone," Ragnar says, glumly.

[guppy_sandhu]

"But you don't live in the future."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"But I am here, and I am a stupid Viking who simply doesn't understand stuff everybody knows," Ragnar says.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Like what?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"How people's souls work," Ragnar says. "Seems I did terrible things and didn't even know. When I knew I was doing terrible things, it wasn't even that bad. I think."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Ragnar, people did things twenty years ago in my world that were acceptable and are now considered horrible." Guppy says. "You can only go off the time you're in."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"But I did damage," Ragnar says. "Seems I break what means most to me."