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cutting_edgex23) wrote2017-03-07 10:07 pm
cutting_edgex23) wrote2017-03-07 10:07 pm
Enemy of the State
A weekend trip to visit the petrified forest seemed like just the thing, though unfortunately one is often obliged to take pit stops during a road trip.
This is perhaps not the fanciest gas station and shopping complex in the area, but it's close and the people in it seem happy.
X will take it.
Hopefully Thor also does not mind.
This is perhaps not the fanciest gas station and shopping complex in the area, but it's close and the people in it seem happy.
X will take it.
Hopefully Thor also does not mind.
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"No. That is in New Mexico."
They are in Arizona.
Beat.
"It is where you want to go?"
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It's a good question, really.
"It's where I landed before. On my own world's Midgard."
"There are good people there. In my own world, I would want to greet them. But here, they wouldn't know me, I think."
He would also, if this were his own world, want to see how the town rebuilt. See the healing, the stores intact and repaired, the people unharmed; accept the weight of the stores closed, the damage unfixable, the people who left homes that no longer seemed safe, after a fight between two Asgardian brothers tore through their lives.
But it's not his own world, and that fight probably didn't happen either. The Thor Odinson of this world has different ties to Midgard. So he's not sure yet if he wants to, or what good it would serve.
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"Know Thor. Or of Thor. It would not be the same."
Not at all.
"It has made me sad. Before. When that happens."
Traveling the multiverse really gives rise to situations like that. X has yet to get used to it. Not really.
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In his world, he would want to go there, without hesitation. But here, where they don't know him, and the state of the town will say nothing about the aftermath of Loki's Destroyer? Who would it serve? Anyone at all? He'll think on it.
"Perhaps another time," is what he says, and has another (large) bite of pancakes. Mmm, pancakes.
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X goes quiet, as well, making her way through one and a half sandwiches before looking up again.
"There is a petting zoo. Off of the interstate."
They could go there. Because animals. And small children. That is always comforting, right?
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Especially since he knows X is a fan of them too.
So he grins at X. "Very well. Let us see this petting zoo."
The Allspeech gives him the general gist -- it seems pretty self-explanatory -- but he's never been to one. What kinds of things do they have? If it's going to be interesting to people there have to be various species large enough for both kids and adults to ride, probably, so that'll be fun to watch. (Thor, you are doomed to disappointment, but you can probably watch a tiny kid sitting uncertainly on a patiently sleepy pony or something.)
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X will enjoy that, as she has not really seen a llama up close before.
But before that --
"People have been talking about the pie. Here."
A pause.
"I would like to try it."
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He's learned enough of Earth diner manners that he doesn't slap the table or bellow that, but it's a close thing for a second. Feasts are important! Friends having things they like is also important!
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"With ice cream. Thank you."
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He'd like lingonberry or cloudberry, but those didn't seem to be on the menu. And peanut butter's exotic and all, but cherry's always a solid choice.
So: pie!
But first, he'll chow down on the rest of this heap of food, to make table room.
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Plus stealing from his plate is hilarious.