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[st_ormbreaker]

Two day streak.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

Good! then won't have to ward you every day. But we should do it again tonight.

[st_ormbreaker]

You don't mind doing it this often?

[st_rikingblueeyes]

Not at all.

[st_ormbreaker]

I feel I really owe you something better than just cookies.

I'll drop by tonight.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

I think I should be ready to start lessons the day after tomorrow.

Or fall flat on my face trying, but I have an idea of how to begin at least.

[st_ormbreaker]

Do I need to do or bring anything?

[st_rikingblueeyes]

Nope! Though if I realize I'm wrong on that, I'll let you know.

[st_ormbreaker]

Thanks.

Do you know anything about Christmas? We don't celebrate it on Asgard, but I've been celebrating it with my ex-girlfriend for years.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

Not really? I know the bare bones about who Christ was, but that's about it.

[st_ormbreaker]

Do you know about Santa and presents and the tree?

[st_rikingblueeyes]

I know about presents! Tony said a little about Santa at Halloween, but I don't think I really get it.

[st_ormbreaker]

He's this fat man with beard dressed in all white who brings presents to the good children. The bad children get coal.

Really, it's just parents leaving out presents for their children. He doesn't actually exist, but children believe it for a time.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

That's bizarre.

[st_ormbreaker]

Agreed. I don't really understand it, but Jane was really into it.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

Well, people are into all kinds of weird things.

[st_ormbreaker]

There are weirder things to be into, I suppose. A lot of Asgardian culture doesn't make sense to Jane, either.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

Example?

[st_ormbreaker]

When we marry, we break into the grave of one of our ancestors to retrieve a sword all Asgardians are buried with, for instance.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

Why?

[st_ormbreaker]

When you do this, you enter death as a child and emerge into life again as an adult, reborn, yet the same.

Made more sense when you married young, comparably speaking. I couldn't imagine marrying anyone until I was well over 100.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

I can barely imagine being married at all.

[st_ormbreaker]

Why?

[st_rikingblueeyes]

Because marriage is one of the hardest things a person can do?

[st_ormbreaker]

Agreed, but is there no future you can imagine where you're married?