[ WP ] `` I must say , I did not expect you so soon . ''

`` I must say, I did not expect you so soon.'' Far away from her, bottles clinked, ravens croaked; the very two, she realized, that she had heard in the wind. 
 
 She was finally here. She'd reached the Worldfather's domain... or rather, as he preferred here, `` Odin.'' Her minuscule feet shivered on the floor -- this was the first time she'd transcended any dimension she knew of, and if she were lucky, the last as well. 
 
 `` Why yes, my child. Come closer that I may see you.'' 
 
 The room held a strange, almost unending enormity. As one might see the Solar Realm from a great deal away, if they were astronomically large.... And yet Amymone did n't notice any sort of unreal size to the objects here. Made for a man either Kimahn's size or barely larger, fur-lined clothes, heaping piles of pelts, and even human remains simply sat in antiquity around her... nothing so tall that it would overwhelm completely. 
 
 `` F-Father -- ” She knew that as one of Dwarven blood, and a descendant of someone Odin had personally created, this was her burden. `` I come with a... a humble request.... It involves someone you might know only from his grandparents.'' Carefully she stepped down the stone floor... and bleakly realized her first thoughts had erred. This was indeed a far larger place than she'd known, and Odin was certainly going to be larger than Kimahn. 
 
 `` But of course. I remember Eldis... and poor dear Ilsa. You would know from tales that eventually, Ilsa came to love her brute of a husband.'' 
 
 ``... I.... ” She passed what she'd thought were human bones. She'd been too far away to realize these were the petrified remains of a Jotunn... those great and terrible giants that'd roamed Midgar as well as Jotunnheim. Heimdallr had been one of these. 
 
 This room itself defied possibility. It was not simply a man's scrivening chamber, nor was it a stone-walled dwelling like those in Nhanon. Dveldheim was simply a scrap of granite in this place, and Brobdinia... A single ember, she pondered, could likely contain the whole of it. 
 
 `` I know of your needs, my child. Favored of Lésa. You were his very image from the day you sprang forth from Delila's womb. I recall telling Freya -- ” Huginn, or Muninn, interrupted him with a cry. `` Oh yes, you are right. I was telling *Freyr* that this little maid in front of me now would someday ascend to where her parents had never seen, to intercede for a man whose father had slain hers. The sins of a father should never visit upon a child if they reject him. And Valery's children.... ” A deep, booming laugh erupted from the Worldfather. `` Why, only one of them obeyed him! The other three wish nothing to do with his loathsome acts.'' 
 
 ``... Father, does he have three? Or simply two?'' 
 
 `` You do not know? ” 
 
 `` No, ” Amymone admitted, though she'd been certain Janiu and his brothers were the only ones she'd ever seen in Nhanon. It was entirely possible Valamor had charmed one more creature. `` But Gany would.'' 
 
 `` Ah yes. Ganymede. Dear little thing... she told Freyr off when she was nine. He wanted so badly to be the husband to a fiery woman such as she. But she loves Valery's son Kimahn! That furry rekkr!'' 
 
 `` She's very fond of him, and he of her. ” Carefully she edged past a ball, pausing only to look into it. Was it her imagination, or did she see *Sol* itself in those depths? `` Oh my! Father, is this the vault of the universe? Do you watch all of us from here?'' 
 
 A great wall moved aside -- bleakly, looking up, she realized it had not been one. Some stone sledge had been laid here, and the hand that held it -- 
 
 `` You seem surprised, my daughter. ” Endless dark loomed before and above her. 
 
 H-His *eye* --! Weaving on her feet, lungs filling with smoke and leathers, Amymone wilted ungracefully to the floor.
