#rivervale_lodge

"I dunno about that..."

"They're just... I mean..." She gestures. "They're intimidating."

"Oh god yes. Dad too though not as much. Mom's a legend , dad and I are more sidekicks" A smile though "Course, this time I wasn't. This time I was... felt nice to be ...you know, taking lead on something?"

"Yeah?"

"Come on, Dagmar.... they don't let me sail... and if I can't be the best sailor...then I'll never be the best anything in this crowd. Even in our generation. Sylvi's prettier and a better leader. You're stronger and probably braver...definitely more honorable. Gerd has been fighting being mountain again but she's only 12 and mastered Wayfare and probably heading towards sorcerhood. And Vali, jokes aside, is a walking death bringer of cold and ice...of all the troll wilders.. I'm.. middle at best."

"Oh, you are absolutely the bravest and boldest."

"Reckless maybe, but if we're comparing courage? Oh I'm no braver than a girl leaping onto a horse and deciding to joust with a thunderbird" A nudge "How about we share the bravest title then?"

An eyebrow and a nudge.

"Boldest, though, for sure. And, like... morale, you know?"

"Ah, thanks. I'll take it . " A smile

"But that's, like, important."

"Someone has to keep the team together and keep everybody from getting fed up and pay attention when folks are off..."

"I don't know if I do all THAT. I mean, Vali's jokes sometimes lift spirts... and Sylvi can almost out 'I've got a plan' Elizabeth Warren"

"Sure, Sylvi's the planner, but it's more... like.."

"Like? " she smiles a bit "Okay, now I feel like I'm fishing for compliments..maybe I am and didn't realize it."

"Like Sokka! Or... oh... Leo McGarry..."

"So... huge slab of cheese"

"Or Astrid?"

"So.. like, you do a lot."

"Thanks. I... what I did, wearing a false face... going on the others pretending to be what i'm not? It wasn't very trollish, but it felt good doing something for the lodge, for my parents. I feel like I just helped save my mom and dad... and.. that's GREAT. Never felt so alive. I think.. I think I got a glamour rush from it. I don't know what I want to be, but for the moment, doing untrollish things, I felt very trollish in the results'

"Hmph. You are a troll, you protected the lodge, and your parents, so it's trollish."

"Maybe you're just a rare kind of troll."

"Ain't no body like me, but me" She does her best Rocket impersonation

"Xactly."

A pause. "Okay, am I Drax or Groot in this scenario?"

a smile, "I'd say you have more of a Groot heart.. you love nature, and you shield your friends"

"But i probably WON'T be jumping on your back and firing wildly if that's what you worry about"

"Ha!"

"Thanks, Dagmar. I guess ... I saved the day, I want everyone happy and Dad's not so I want to FIX it.. but that isn't something i can just will into being. I'll see what I CAN Do... but take it slow if I have to" A nod

"So - what all happened after you went on secret mission? My job was just, y'know, keeping my mouth shut. Easy."

"Oh wow... Not sure where to begin... I had help from folks before, and, to my surprise during though I cannot mention certain names. First, I went to Aunt Clem.. and she turned me into Angrgyn." She decribers her other self "I wanted va va vaoom and she gave me angry biker bitch... and mom was terrified that it looked too close to a thallian....because Elderform can get into your head after a time right? "

"Really? Hunh."

She goes on "And It did.. I mean.. I went Unseelie pretty quick once I got there but not sure if the form was that or trhe company or some sort of self defense. I had to track down leads..." And she relates some of the leads she used.. "Pretending I was interested in working for House Leanhaun but not sounding too fake? I named dropped the name of a leanhuan I knew was no longer mong...and I had insider info thanks to some scrying from a contact who I will call only 'The RAAAAAAAVEEEN'"

the last said in an elongated dramatic way

"So armed, I worked my way into oen Leanhaun old near a greyhound race track... and there, to prove worth, I had to fight three other warriors." A smile "I won"

She goes on, a bit rapidly about how that lead to introductions, until that lead to the BIG bad herself, the woamn out to destroy her father

"Of course you won."

"The one that sent the axe?" Glower.

"YUP. her plan. WHen I met her I had to kiss the bitch's ass" A face

"What? Gross!"

"Well, Whe nI'm unseelie I'm kind of rude and crude and for once that was okay..but she found amusing"

"I made like I thought House Gwydion was.." She glances at her friend "Ye know what, let's just not have you OR mom ever hear what I said while in disguise as a villain"

"...Right."

"Long story short... they treated me like the hired muscle not quite smart enough to realize I was expendible, so I played the part...and learned things. Saw some stuff that.." She shudders "Well, let's just sayh, Leanhaun are CHARMING... very easy to like.. until you know what they do behind closed doors."

"Oh, more than one tried to seduce me." SHe says "Let's not tell dad about that."

"Yeah, no."

"Sidhe are ANNOYINGLY attractive. " She confesses, "Bancroft.. he doesn't abuse that. But there are those that do. Mom was so right to warn me. Anyway... during all this, I realized some boggan was trying to steal stuff off me, clothes or what not. I figured it was for sooth say." A shake of her head "But it turned out to be worse than that. Fortunately for me... I had the eye of the raaaaaaven on my side..." Dramatic that then "And message reached word to by gauntlet in FIRNOST of all places. orders only fitting my new description. Mum had been warned that the Boggan was a namer, and she kind of hinted I should head back to the farm. But..ah.. instead.. I realized I had an oppurtunity"

"...A Namer? Seriously?"

"SERIOUSLY... she was snatching up names right and left... without folks knowing. Tried to get mine"

"And her baroness did not know she WAS a namer... and that's when I realized , she had the baroness' name..her true name." She decribes tying Janice up, stealing the list... and then... the meeting with the baroness "And I was to be sworn as a thane... all I had to do was ravage.. 'as a gift'"