#rivervale_lodge

"Yep, we're just glad it wasn't accordions."

"Adam of house Yankovic."

Brekke clears her throat. "I know we have already spoken somewhat, Vali, but...Adam was hoping you could tell him something about the sword."

She is in a chipper mood indeed!

"Or the PICK of Destiny... this is a TRIBUTE." Air guitar.

And a bright grin over to Dagmar! And she throws up the horns.. which is maybe redundant...

"Okay.. am 'I' the straightman in this bizzaro Skit?" Vali looks at the Chief and Mountain

A brief grin back.

"Ooo, Piper, do you know the Rivervale song?"

A blink. "You have a song?" and a look to Vali. "Do you want some privacy to, uh... do your... thing? I can go hear about this song..."

"That would be an unexpected turn, wouldn't it?" Frank rises from his desk and crosses to Brekke.

Brekke looks mostly puzzled at the arcane references.

"Oh yeah, it was written for baby Siv, so she'd know home..."

Adam laughs at the horns.

"I think I can try it here.." Vali says then to Adam says "Your sword, please"

"Uhhhh......" Adam looks awkward. "It's at home." Sheepish. "But I can bring it for our next lesson!"

"Ok I can go get it now!"

"Now, understand, I am NOT Tove...."

Vali shrugs "Whatever you like."

(Aw, it's not in the car?)

"Perhaps Gerd could assist you in fetching the sword quickly, Adam."

"Uhh."

Gerd says "Sure... Hold still, Adam. Gotta work my bunk." She holds up fingers and chants "I'm searching for your inner flower... inner flower.. eeww.. a weed" POKE in da belly

And both vanish

Vali looks at Dagmar "Only Tove is tove... so no worries. Let it rip when you want, Dagmar"

She purples a bit and clears her throat sheepishly.

Piper watches eagerly.

PIper got left behind.

Frank reaches out to Brekke's hair, takes a flower, puts it behind his own ear, and returns to his desk.

But she has a song to hear

Piper didn't notice - there is MUSIC

"In a Gardened land, there lays a place, nestled tween two hills...
and a river runs through the valley there, has always and always will...
Oh with a falcon's cry and a strong oak's side, though battered and a bit torn
I'll know the place that calls to me, and wake inside one morn.

"O Rivervale, wait for me, I'll get to you from the sea and Perhaps place down my oars
A place Stormy shields, and Moutain stone, and Hearth fires that me would warm.
Rivervale, Rivervale, don't dim your light.
I'll walk the woods behind you, and show up the door some night."

"Where dogs of white guard the porch, and knights and rovers dwell
there's a story waiting, a story of home
and there I hope to dwell"

"O Rivervale, wait for me, I'll get to you from the sea and Perhaps place down my oars
A place Stormy shields, and Moutain stone, and Hearth fires that me would warm.
Rivervale, Rivervale, don't dim your iight.
I'll walk the woods behind you, and show up the door some night."

"There are folks who love me in Rivervale, waiting there for me.
And so I'll go there, safe and warm, Father Mountain, Mother Storm"

Brekke gives Frank a fond look as he...ahem...deflowers her.

Then a distant expression as Dagmar sings Siv's Rivervale song. Distant, and pleased.

Dagmar is not an impressive singer - mostly on key, but soft.

All head voice, not enough support.

"So. Um. Tove does it better."

Frank leads the applause after Dagmar finishes.

Piper listens, enthralled, and her eyes look misty by the time she's finished. "Now if that isn't a song that makes you long for home and hearth... and you sang with feeling, and you can't fake that, not even with autotune."

Vali says "You did fine. From the heart always helps" no joking

She rubs the back of her neck and shrugs.

"Well done, Dagmar. Always nice to hear that song."

"You've got a nice voice. I've always been jealous that I can't hit a contralto..."

Brekke clears her throat. "Dame Dagmar...thank you. That song pleases me."

"It's a nice song."

"It is," she agrees.