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That would certainly be something! So, how many places is that now? That we're apparently due to visit, I mean.

And...so what exactly did the voice tell you?

The only way to stop the frost queen is to keep her hands off the souls of the gods. She's going to use their immortality to endure past the world tree's destruction.

And I think you mean we need to visit everywhere.

Well that shouldn't be hard, unless there's some sort of strange doohickey that makes souls something just about anybody can mess with.

Hoo hoo! Why, whatever else could I mean?

Exactly.

At the time, Freyr's soul had been stolen when he sacrificed himself to save the travelers during an attack. Shortly after the trip to the mouth of the world, we went and raised frost queen hq with a strike force.

One team slipped inside with another covering them, while the rest on the mission hit the gates. Only two of the infiltration team made it back with the soul.

The third stayed behind to deal with any guards and delay pursuit.

Oh...

[So it really was a serious war then. Very serious, with very real missions and such.]

So which team were you on? And don't say you weren't, you said "we", and it doesn't seem like you not to tag along for something like that.

[There's a pause then Dirk sighs and his voice sounds a little closer to the bracelet.]

Infiltration. I made a dumb error and tripped a portal to a guard room. The other two got the soul out. I stayed behind.

[He had dodged it for the full conversation only to come around and admit it to what happened.]

[There's another pause as Jane weighs what this could mean.]

...But you said the person who stayed behind didn't make it out.

I didn't.

Because we're tied to the gods, our souls can be called back from death.

Featherbro didn't make it out either.

So - so you both DIED?

And came back thanks to the goddess of death, Hel. It's not so different from how it's possible to revive back home, just more guaranteed.

So? That's still pretty awful!!

You didn't plan on telling me, did you?

Not this soon. [There's a pause.] How the fuck was I supposed to say it? Oh the death thing is legit because I've kicked it.'??

Any way I thought of saying it sounded callus as fuck.

...

[A sigh.] True. It's probably not the sort of thing that's easy to explain. But...I think I'd have preferred not to guess about it.

If I'd have brought it up out of the blue would you have believed me about it?

...Probably not. It would have sounded like a very unfunny joke.

It takes seeing or knowing someone who went through it, I guess. Fuck if I know the protocol on this.

[There's a very long, tired sigh.]

Please. Just...tell me you're not planning on dying again anytime soon.

Jane, why on Earth would I consider dying again?

I don't know! I just had the urge to check.

The rest assured, the only way I'll die again is if I see no other alternative.

I really hope it won't ever come to that. For any of us.

Only time will tell. In the meantime I have a bit of an odd request.

Oh really? And just whatever could this odd request entail?

Remember how I once said I'd take you on as a student? Consider this the reverse. Could you teach me how to cook?

I know how to handle fish, and anything you could take from the sea but regular food I'm at best capable of making edible. Following cookbooks gets me by but an instructor would be ideal.

Wha - me? You really want me to teach you how to cook? Not that I mind, I'd be happy to! But what's the occasion?

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