#rivervale_lodge

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Heat swelters, and simmers along the normally cooler climes of Rivervale

The Chieftain's ties to the bale, the cool nordic dreams, help mitigate it slightly... a few degrees pinched off but it's still..damn sweltering.

"I swear I want to fly the Kestrel just to get a breeze going" Siv moans

And turns on another fan

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While others maybe sweating more or less, Vali walks around smiling as usual, and hasn't even put on lighter clothes.

Sylvi, on the other hand, is still adjusting from her Alaska trip. "Seriously? It's way too hot." A tank top and shorts, and her hair pinned up in a messy bun, she looks at Vali with disbelief. "Aren't you dying in those clothes?"

"mm? No..." He shrugs, "why would I be? "//Siv is by now also wearing shorts and mid riff not because it will draw boys but because she's boiling "Because it's blooming hot. I want to move into the fridge and claaim I'm trod hunting. How are you comfortable?"//"For one thing, i spent a lot of time in Willows... and two.. " He snaps his fingers and snow flakes burst in a small whirl around his hand"Master of Winter magic remember? My own perssonal body space is abbout 72 degrees I'd guess."

Sylvi's jaw drops. "That's...that's CHEATING!"

After a moment...."Can you share?"

"After you just accussed me of cheating?" He raises a brow//"She apologies" Siv blurts. It's not her place to apologize for Sylvi, but one can understand perhaps the slip,

"I do. A lot. Big apologies...." She blinks winningly at him.

"Uh huh...truth to tell, any second I suspect either the Storm or Hearth will pull rank and ORDER me to do this... okay, give me time to build up a good bunk okay?"

"Can we help? Um...for the good of the Lodge?"

"Sure sure... okay, one of you be North Pole.." He gestures to the north part of the room, "the other be south pole"

Sylvi shrugs to Siv and moves to the North.

"Makes sense as you were in Alaska recent like" Siv agrees and takes to the south.

"Okay...now what?"

"And yeah...you're going to be heading to the South soon. I mean, me too, but..." A smile.

"Shhh, now my part... Star of the show..." A wink, Vali then grows serious and starts to chant, "Skadi, I do implore, though all others tend to favor Thor, or Odin, or maybe Loki, though that last is asking for trouble if you ask me. Far we are from your time on the wheel, but Frey's golden boar should be brought to heal, a touch of winter in the air, to show the heat your due. A cool breeze blowing through the Lodge , a comforting balm would be. Carved from ice, some say, the first troll came out blue. A gift of our primal home, we now ask of you. We have not forgotten, nor do we dismiss, the power of you, winter mistress. Open your eye in your summer sleep, and if you would, a touch of winter creep. " He throws a mistle toe (Lord knows where he got that) into the fire. It pops and...

A cold breeze, far better tthan your typical AC flutters through the Lodge's halls and chambers like a living thing stirred with curiousity.

Despite not being cold, Vali wipes his brow "Whew. Need to work on my scene... but good practice, and you two helped... so nice work... and at least one of you isn't even listening to me." //Siv has closed her eyes and spread her arms to feel the breeze

Sylvi's done the same, a deep breath and a sigh of relief. "Oooooohhhhhh." She just savors the coolness for a moment. Then she opens her eyes again and looks to Vali. "Just by standing here? That was help enough? Easy!" She smiles and takes another deep breath of cool air.

"Is it just inside the Lodge, or outside too?"

"It's the placement, two maidens to honor Skadi..." he explains "maidens paid a part in a lot of magic cermonies, and it carries on to this day. Modern Stage magicians pick the loveliest assitants they can mostly as a distraction, but it still harkens back to older ritual"

"Oh" he adds "And just the lodge. I am not that powerful."

A bright smile, and she does a few turns of a stage pose, a la stage assistant or Vanna White.

Siv laughs "So help me, if you pull a rabbit out nowhere... oh this feels wonderful, thank you, Vali."

Sylvi giggles. "No rabbits up my sleeves...cuz no sleeves!"

Vali chuckles at Sylvi's jest, then says "You're welcome. Now I need to sit down a bit. Not a bad bit of magic" he sys pleased "Hope the Chief doesn't mind. I don't think she would. But this is her land and hold and when i was younger ice slides left to crumble used to make puddles inside"

"Oh, I bet that didn't go over well." Sylvi flops down in a chair, enjoying the cool. "How long do you think it might last?"

"It's a cantrip let loose in the hold, that's the good thing.. I'd say an hour or more... now, if the Chief comes by it and likes it? mmm need to ask Frank, he's the mouuntain, but I think what happens is she can extend it further beyond that, or even spread it a bit further out. "

"What on earth...?" Kerri's surprised voice from the kitchen.

"Mum could do that?hah" Siv is impressed, then she turns, and says to Sylvi 'Sounds like your mom got a breeze going by."

Kerri pushes out of the kitchen, aiming a concerned glance towards the balefire, but sees the others. "Did you all feel...oh, it's in here, too?"

"Problem, Kerri?" Vali asks, "The girls were feeling the heat so when they saw me looking comfy, they asked why and then I rememinded them Winter's my best art, and then they made the big eyes. Did I overstep?"

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Kerri blinks at him, then at the girls. "Well..." A moment's hesitation, then a smile. "I don't think so. Honestly, it was getting bad enough out there in the kitchen that I was thinking of serving ice for dinner." She goes to Vali and gives him a hug. "Thank you, Vali. What a lovely treat."

He returns the hug, "My pleasure. Probably good for me anyway. Any art should be used for things other than just combat, and sometimes it does seem mostly that's what I've used it for. A few exceptions, of course." He looks about "this being one of them."//"And helping Tove" Siv reminds "Thought Uncle jaymes would go mad when she was poisoned" //"that too." Vali says "But the point remains is...when I'm using that art I can be a bit militant. You guys don't see that side of me too much. Probably for the best."

"Militant? How?" Sylvi asks.

Kerri glances at her daughter, then looks back to Vali. After a pause, a short nod.

A look to Sylvi, "Thallian are not protected by the Escheat. I treat them like the enemy because they are, and that war continues. I'm Beaumayn, we are hunted by the Dark, and in turn, we hunt back. I have frozen the black hearts of Boggarts and shattered them in my fist, I have set the breath of bogies to chill so they could not breath and watched them die with not one regret. I know how cold cold needs to be to burn someone because I've used the lash of it. I don't suggest you ask for details, they aren't pleasant."

Siv gives an Eeep.

Sylvi just stares at him disbelievingly. This is not the Silly Vali she's come to know.

and yet his eyes are quite cool when he says it, not signs of humor, then "Don't worry, I'm still one of the good guys. Ask the Chief about battle with no quarter sometime. She can tell you what it means, if she thinks she should. There are fewer things more frightening than a troll who is put in a postion where his honor and duty demands such. The Sidhe can't be topped for beautiful terror, but we are, when moved, as an arctic storm with boulder sized hail and the strength of winds that can rip a roof off. We are the sons and daughters of protection, but when protection requires vengeance's full wrath? Epics are born that make even the sidhe warriors say to each other 'Brace yourselves, the trolls have unleashed themselves'"

Kerri's expression is a bit distant, like she's examining long ago memories. Sylvi looks from Vali to her mother and then back, then shakes her head. "I...I don't think I could be like that...." But she doesn't sound certain.

"I hope you never have to be," Vali says "But...we'll, we'll see." A smile spreads , a bit of the Vali they know returning "Oh, now, I do have one more magical trick. want to see it?"

"I...sure...?" Sylvi's smile hasn't returned yet.