artifacetious | [asgard IC contact]

Okay so, I know you're probably still up. If you're not, I am so sorry about waking you up.

Anyway, it turns out working metals is a bad thing when reflections are trying to nab people. I'm back. [His head hurts like hell from how close he came to his fire turned against him but he's alive. Leo rubs at his face and adds.]

It feels really weird to be limited again.

[ Of course she's awake. She looks pretty wired, actually, even though she doesn't have her hair or makeup done because those things sort of require mirrors. The background of her video is her room, not the forge, which probably means she figured out that being around shiny things was a bad idea. ]

I'm up. Limited? What? Leo, where are you?

[When he'd went into the mirror he'd been mostly keeping what he is a secret. Now it just doesn't seem to matter. He is what he is. Leo leans back and shakes his head.]

I'm on the street just outside Freyr's welcome home. The rest can be summed up in one word, demigod. Hephaestus is my dad. Mom was a mechanic that caught his eye.

[ She's already moving, grabbing her jacket and headed out. ]

Uh. Okay, cool, but hold that thought. I'm headed over.

I will be right here. [As promised Leo is sitting on the steps of the welcome hall when she arrives. He looks tired and a bit like he got drug through the dirt a few times.]

[ She's there too quickly to have walked, and isn't wearing her tool bag like usual. ]

Hey, Houdini. Are you okay?

Other than narrowly escaping exploding and this new headache? [Leo gets to his feet and dusts off his legs. He's tired. He opens his hand but no fire rises up at his wish.]

Mostly good. They created another Asgard somehow. Lots of people are trapped there.

[Some of them had become his friends.]

[ He looks exhausted, and Claudia glances from him to the hall and back. ]

Hold off on the infodump for now, you're not making any sense. Do you still live here?

[He flexes his fingers as if the flames would spring up but nothing still. He lets his hand fall to his side with a sigh.] Thor District in a fixer up place. We can head that way if it's still standing.

I need more tools. [Leo shakes his head to clear it and thumps it once.] I'm cool. It's just going to take a bit of getting used to the fog again.

[ He seems very scattered, which is what worries Claudia... she takes the hand he thumped his head with and pulls it back to his side, tugging him in the direction of Thor. ]

We'll find out, then you can start from the beginning. Okay?

[ Another strange thing... he looks different. Not dramatically, but more than just the dirt and exhaustion. Hell, she's seen those on him before. ]

Yeah that works. [He's not that much older than he used to be, but the signs of age are there. He's leaner. He's lost that impish look and exchanged it for a more wood elfish appearance. His hair is longer and shaggier and something in his eyes tells of a hardship he hasn't yet overcome.

To say nothing of his simple jeans, white shirt, and army fatigue jacket. He's quiet until they reach Thor district.] Take a left right here.

[He stops being led and takes point, drawing his three pound hammer from his coat in case they run into trouble.

The Demigod apartment looks like any other from the outside. Leo fumbles with his keys and gets the lock undone and that's when everything looks different.

The main room has a blazer in the center of it with chairs and small altars to Athena, Hephaestus, and Poseidon.

Resting on the table at the back is a long bow with a quiver of arrows. It's not the weirdest thing. Three of the bedroom doors are marked with the god they represent. Columns of stone and a gray door lead into the room dedicated to Athena. Poseidon's door is bright blue with swirls and carvings of the sea gracing the doorframe. On the far right is a heavy steel door that Leo makes for with a tired sound. It swings open without a sound at his touch and the lights come on. Inside everything is covered in metal and machinery. Leo clears off the main table with a sweep of his arm. Gracing the walls are schematics nd diagrams of the city and other projects. One of them looks suspiciously like a floating boat with a familiar dragon's head on the front.]

Okay, so. The beginning. Beginning of what happened or my beginning?

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