#MS Dynamics AX

[pwnyta]

Hi Ewim, I'd like to ask your opinion on something pls? None of my friends follow One Piece and I trust you opinions as they are, objectively, correct 90% of the time. My problem is that I have the decision making skills of a concussed raccoon and the attention span of a mouldy walnut, I have two supercute OP OCs, but cannot decide which to write about and only have the energy to write about one. Could you tell me which sounds the most interesting/which would be the most fun??

My quartermaster axe wielding enabler momfriend lady who is chubby, cuddly, and a tank in a fight. No devil fruit. She's just a fucking WALL. Big axe, big damage. Her trouble is that the mom instincts are too strong, she will try to mom everyone, even enemies. Sometimes to hilarious benefit, sometimes to horrible detriment. Robin got crew mom role by default as the oldest woman, let her live her "not my problem" wine aunt best life. She would join roughly around Romance Dawn, at the start. Her dream is to see the Grandline and go everywhere her grandfather described in the Log Book she inherited from him, and then write her own. Cant handle birds though.

Or my feral 10 year old cabingirl rigger who just escaped Doflamingo and Bellamy by stowing away on Merry during the Jaya arc. She's like a stabbier Ace at the same age. No devil fruit but she used to be rivals with Ms Goldenweek, she worked out hypnosis but chose to use it via singing as it Couldn't be washed away. But her primary thing is knives. So many knives. Twenty hidden knives on her person at ALL times. At first she just wants to escape Doflamingo, then kill him, but eventually her dream will be to paint everywhere she's seen on the Grand Line. She's a bit like the boys and gets really excited about cool stuff like robots and the like, Luffy and Usopp would be a bad influence. Cannot stop herself from being distracted or stealing knives if they're nice enough. Terrified of dolls and dogs.

I love both of my girls very much, but I can't write them both. I do not have the spoons. Which one should I quite??? I can't choose!! 😭😭😭

Babes you asked me to between an axe wielding mommy and a child.

Of course Im going with AXE WIELDING MOMFRIEND. Oda took our chance of having an axe woman... you are just returning that. Nature is healing.

Its not just aesthetics tho!

I do think she has more to work with in the dynamic of the Mugis and has a more unique vibe and a cute reason to explore with them/dream which I think is QUINTESSENTIAL in having a character be a good Mugi.

Thank you for trusting my judgement! Despite the horrors of me.

[frankenwolf1564]

Magic Square Light of Victory: Upstaged and outclassed, but still fun

Magic Square Light of Peace has been renowned as the premier Third Party Masterpiece Optimus Prime for some time now, and for good reason. He offers a high range of articulation and expression, with an intricate but not overly complicated transformation, all at a much more reasonable price point than some other official offerings. There’s also what feels like a half dozen different versions, so you’ve got plenty to pick from to fit your exact needs. With MS capitalizing on his success with MP upscales of their Combaticons, let’s take a look at where all of this started with the original Legends scale take on the design, Light of Victory.

Visually it’s… it’s another G1 Optimus Prime. It’s another G1 cartoon 1984 Optimus Prime. It’s the umpteenth really good looking cartoon accurate generation one Autobot Leader Optimus Prime. I think we’ve all accepted that they’ll be making this guy until the fucking sun implodes, but it can’t be ignored either. I was fiddling with him at my desk, looked over at my shelves, and realized I’ve got three of him in one little cubby. In my defense, however, this is also Skybound Optimus. Kind of. DWJ directly based his drawings of the big guy on MS Light of Peace, who is an upscale of this little version of the big guy. And, AND, this isn’t even the cartoon deco of the figure, so ha.

Light of Victory is about what you’d expect from a 3P Legends scale figure in terms of articulation, with the only real issue being the thigh swivels. The actual mushroom peg that allows it to swivel is very close to the hip assembly, and it’s covered from the front and outside by the rest of the leg. While this means there’s no cut or break in the sculpt, it’s right up against his crotch, meaning there isn’t much clearance for turning it inward unless you bring the leg out to the side. The result is that it looks very visually cohesive, but you are presented with a few issues when trying to get him into more dynamic poses. Other figures have used this type of thigh joint, (even my last review had it!) but it feels a bit extreme here. He has a few other minor gripes like the elbow “only” being 90°, but it’s not a huge deal and gets balanced out by things like his double jointed knees.

Inversely, I don’t much care for how his hands look. They swivel just fine, being mounted on a ball joint that lets you easily swap one out for his energon axe, but the MS signature of “permanent trigger finger” rarely looks natural and sticks out in the majority of poses, and not in a good way. It feels like they want more dynamic open hands à la NewAge, but they didn’t want to make a separate part or lose out on the ability to hold weapons with the standard closed fists. It comes off as an awkward middle ground that satisfies neither niche. Or, at the very least, I don’t like them here on Optimus. I was indifferent towards them on the likes of DX9 Mini Michael Murphy, but they feel much more strange and stilted here. He’s not pointing at anything nor does he feel particularly convicted on any matter.

Quick side note: as far as I understand it the DX9 Mini line is technically like, just Magic Square? Or is at least associated with them. The whole third party world is wild and impossible to keep track of. There’s so much damn crossover and co-ownership and sub-companies and- ugh.

While on the subject of his hands, let’s go over his accessories, c-cause like he- he holds those with- We’ve already mentioned the axe, cast in a very pretty orange plastic, and of course he comes with the ever reliable ion blaster, and a matrix. It’s tucked away in his chest and I don’t think he can hold it. It does come out, but his hands are so rigid and the matrix is so thin I’m worried it’s going to break before he gets any sort of grip on it. I’m not trying it. All it really means in the end is that you’re liable, and likely, to pop it out on accident when transforming him.

The transformation is clever, if not a tad fiddly at this scale. There doesn’t feel like there’s enough room for you to get your fingers in and move things the way you need to, and that’s on top of some regular slight clearance issues. Space is a luxury. Light of Peace is probably more fun to handle for this reason, any quirks being worked out aside there’s just more toy for you to get your hands on. While I don’t have him myself, I can tell you that Victory here is almost the exact same when it comes to transformation. They really did just size it up, though they did use the extra space to add a few smaller touches and seemingly smooth out the experience.

The final truck mode does look nice, that all said. It’s Optimus, we’ve been over this no less than three separate times, but kudos for keeping the grill as the same part between modes. I know not every OP does it and I know some vehemently appreciate it when they do. Things do kind of fall apart when you go to the back, with the bed barely passing as such. It holds together mostly fine, once you have everything tabbed together it’s not going anywhere, but the top panels don’t sit flush and end up a bit squishy. Clearance is tight in his undercarriage, with his wheels just barely clearing his shins. I’m not sure how related it is but he doesn’t roll very freely. His wheels are pinned and the tires are… soft. Probably rubber but I can’t say for certain, but they don’t save things. The back wheels are very “sticky” and don’t want to move much, at least on my copy.

So what role does Light of Victory play in the endless world of Optimus Primes? Does… he need to fill one? While his transformation exists in a larger, easier to handle figure, and there’s other options for a small scale Prime, there’s nothing wrong with him being one of those options. I stand by the belief that we currently live in a golden age for transformers collecting, with both official and third party offering no shortage of high quality options to choose from. Where as before you might have had trouble simply finding a representation of a character, now you might have too many to choose from. Optimus has… never really had this problem, but maybe Victory will be the light at the end of your tunnel.

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MS DynamicsD365 - Microsoft Dynamics D365

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4.User Communities and Forums: Engaging with user communities and forums can be an excellent way to learn from experienced professionals and get practical insights about Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. Websites like Dynamics Community  and Microsoft Dynamics User Group provide discussion forums, blogs, and resources where you can connect with other users, ask questions, and learn from their experiences.

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MS Dynamics AX lets businesses make smarter, faster, smoother decisions by unifying complex silo data, providing the business with predictive analysis through dashboard KPIs and reporting tools. It easily integrates with Microsoft technologies like BizTalk server, Office Systems, Office SharePoint to streamline ad-hoc work processes, adopt standard practices, automate and extend supply chain management across borders and make deployment a simple process, thus ensuring a quick scalability. Dentsu Aegis Network, Amec Foster Wheeler, Ashley HomeStore, Assa Abloy, Dell, Delta Air Lines, Qatar Airways, and Wipro are some of the famous companies benefiting from implementing MS Dynamics AX and availing hassle-free IT compliance. These companies believe in the fact that happy customers mean higher sales. By providing end-to-end solutions effectively with integrated and streamlined product and sales processes, they track the purchase trail of customers and connect, communicate and provide better services.

Every Microsoft partner needs to employ Dynamics specialists to take care of the system for them. Microsoft offers certifications specific to each Dynamics area including Dynamics AX to help the professionals gain credibility and increase the customer’s confidence in them. Having trained and certified specialists on board ensures clients that people working on their systems are capable and certified, and hence they are preferred over others. Microsoft claims that 91% of hiring managers consider certification as part of their hiring criteria. One of the biggest advantages of getting this certification is that it is valid and valuable as long as the product is still used in the market. Apart from the theoretical knowledge, it is important for you to have some hands-on experience with the product before applying for this certification.

With job opportunities increasing, more people are looking to work with Dynamics AX to meet the demand and the number of people showing interest in the field is rapidly increasing every year. In order to stand out, it becomes crucial for you to get trained for the certification in the best way possible. Multisoft Systems is a Microsoft’s accredited learning partner that is currently providing MS Dynamics AX 2012 Training in Noida. They understand that preparation for the certifications can be tricky so they try their best to ease the process for candidates as much as possible by assigning certified expert trainers who possess full knowledge of the subject.

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Strong and accurate analytics play a key role in deciding what to produce and what not to produce. However, often, manufacturers don’t know how to plan their resources and manage their productions due to a lack of visibility. Many work with traditional disparate systems of management which further adds to their complexities. What to do? It is highly recommended to invest in aUnified Electric Manufacturing Software Solutionwhich provides all the necessities on the same platform. One of the finest and most renowned examples of this cause isMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. It is a unifiedERP and CRMwhich combines a unique set of tools to match your business requirements. Furthermore, you can access its robust analytics to plan your production.  

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Whether it’s make-to-order, assemble-to-order, and configure-to-order, you can fulfill these orders with excellence. Despite having fluctuating challenges, you can still win the race with the following hacks:  

Invest in the Latest ERP for Electronics Manufacturing 

Modern problems need a modern solution. In this case, you must invest in an extensive technology that fulfills all your needs. If you are still working on silos, you are draining 40% of your resource potential. It’s best to invest in ERP for Electronics Manufacturing. Look through your options and find the best. This is critical to immune you from current and upcoming challenges. The latest technology is designed to have all the features you need to thrive rather than just survive. You can either invest in an ERPandCRM separately or employ a unified software like MSD 365 which supports ERP and CRM capabilities at once.  

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These days rapid financial and regulation changes are common, and so are shrinking product life cycles and global sourcing challenges. With automation, you can reduce errors and time in an operation. With analytics tools likePower BI, you get accurate reports in minutes. You can further manage material and plan demands effectively, purchase and manage inventory, and a lot more. If you chooseERP for Electronics Manufacturing by Microsoft, you can manage multi-country, multi-management, and multi-level manufacturing from one place. Multinational Financial account becomes a piece of cake with no human error.  

Reinforce Your Staff with Hand-held Gadgets to Boost Their Productivity 

Allow your staff to access real-time information on inventory with hand-held devices providing real-time inventory information. Let your staff plan inventory replenishment strategies. Such devices not just save their time but also boost their confidence. They can plan faster and communicate requirements to the person concerned quickly. Since they do not have to work too much on this part, they have enough time and energy to follow other critical aspects of your business. They can manage and place inventory in the right place. With Dynamics 365 F&Othey can plan your warehouse’s floor-space utilization. Find the best way to store your hi-tech inventory.  

Read the Market Carefully 

This is one of the most critical aspects of any manufacturing plant. What is the point if you are not clear about what to produce and how much to produce? How much raw material should you order according to current or future demands? Make sure you use robust analytics to predict current and future demands. You must also foresee the upcoming challenges and plan a way out already. Analyze your previous interactions with customers and check what they liked. You can and must take their feedback to find shortcomings in your electronic items and how you can develop a better product. You can read market news, analyze various data and create reports but there is a high chance of errors. You can give this task to an automated technology like MicrosoftERP for Electronics Manufacturingand let it create reports for you.  

Engage your IT Team in Developing More Valuable Assets 

Make sure you make full use of your IT team. Do not engage them in monotonous management and maintenance of your system software. Instead, engage them in developing new and effective applications to serve your business. They can create an application to bridge the communication gap between you and your customers, or an application targeting a specific need like attendance. You can optimally utilize your IT team when they do not have to worry about constant management and maintenance of your business management software. It’s best to employ anERP for Electronics Manufacturing like Microsoft Dynamics 365 where your implementation partner is entirely responsible for your system’s maintenance and upgrade.  

Grow with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations  

Microsoft Dynamics 365has something for SMEs and enterprises. You can customize a unique set of tools assembled just for your business and let the Implementation partner manage all the related chores. It is important to find the rightD365 Implementation Partner with a strong track of accomplishments. That’s why Trident is the best partner in the market. With 20+ years of serving various business ventures, we have gained an excellent reputation and a high customer retention rate.  

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MS Dynamics Ax & 365 Technical Professionals

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Therapy Fit for a God Chapter 30

Loki/OFC Rated E: Trigger Warnings: Smut, Sex, Oral Sex, Angst, talk of suicide, therapy, unhealthy family dynamics, mention of torture and mind control, touch starved, drinking, memory loss.

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Chapter 29

Loki’s plans to conquer and rule Midgard have come to a disastrous end. After being captured by the Avengers, he is being held on Earth. Odin has refused to interfere, and the outlook for the God of Mischief appear bleak. His only hope may lie in one mortal woman, a Psychiatric expert brought in to interrogate him.

Dr. Caroline Thorpe is intrigued by Loki and thinks that more lies beneath his actions than is commonly known. Can she find out the truth before he is shipped off to die for crimes against the Earth? And can Loki bring himself to care?

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Everything in the world seemed big. He was scared. Cold. Could not bring his mind to form words to fit to his thoughts.

Ice and rock surrounded him, looming up from the ground and down from the ceiling like monster fangs ready to devour him. The dark haired woman who had cooed to him, who had looked at him with a soft, gentle gaze, was no longer within his range of vision. He was alone. It was terrifying.

Yet as terrifying as it was to be alone, the giant who burst into the space was infinitely worse. He was huge and wild, covered in blood like some beast. One hand gripped a brutal looking axe, and a gauged hole was all that remained of one eye.

"Odin," the voice in his mind breathed. He was not alone then, not completely.

As Loki shrunk back onto the slab of stone the woman had carefully placed him on, the giant turned and pierced him with his one good eye.

"What have we here?"

His voice was little more than a growl. Loki could feel the animosity in it. Rough hands reached down to pick him up and carry him closer to a bristly beard and mustache surrounding a pair of pursed lips. There was no warmth, no kindness for him in that look. Instinctively, wanting to calm the fire of the creature's dislike, Loki tried to figure out why this man might loathe him so. He must look like a monster to the monster, he reasoned. Hoping to mollify the man, he thought of the woman who had held him before, the one other face he could remember. Bringing all the concentration he could muster, Loki willed himself to appear more like her.

He must have done something right, because the huge man looked intrigued now, rather than repulsed. Still, he kept Loki clutched in his oversized hands.

"Odin," the dark-haired woman's voice was not as it was when she had spoken so sweetly to Loki. It seemed as cold as the room around them.

The giant spun, and Loki was able to just make out once more the woman. She was slumped on the floor, fatigue stamped onto a beautiful face. Loki could feel waves of love around her and wished that it was she who held him now.

"Volla!"

He feared for a moment that the man would drop him and let out a startled little wail. The hands instead closed tighter around him, and he found that this was almost as bad.

"Where have you been? We have been frantic in our search for you!"

"I have been here, at least of late," her voice held humor, but a touch of pain as well.

"You sister is mad with worry. You disappeared without so much as a by your leave!"

"Perhaps because I tired of living by your leave, Odin Allfather. I wanted to live for myself, to find out what the worlds had to offer."

"Had to offer? I had secured you an offer of mariage that would have made you a Queen of Alfheim!"

"Yes, but I never really cared for Elves. Too much musty, esoteric poetry. And Freyr is such a bore. We would never have suited."

"You could have said as much," his voice was angry, and Loki began fussing in his grasp.

"I would have helped you, Volla. I would have given you the life you desired. I only wanted to protect you," the voice in Loki's mind sounded sad.

"You expect the Goddess of Secrets to share her inner thoughts?" Volla asked, again with a mischievous curl of her lips. "No, you know you would not have approved of what I wanted for myself."

"And what was that?"

"Adventure! To live a full and tumultuous life."

"And I suppose this creature here is the result of that? He is yours I take it?"

"He is," Loki heard pride in her voice, and a warmth spread through him despite the cold. "My little Loki."

"My little Loki! How could I not have known?"

"And where is the father then, who left you here to suffer the trial of delivery alone? Does he have so little respect for a Goddess?"

"He could not be with me," she said with a frown. "Some bellicose berserker of a King came rampaging in with an army, forcing him to go to war."

"Then I was right. It is the child of one of those cursed brutes."

"It is the child of ME!" she corrected, struggling to rise up as much as she could. "The son of a Goddess and of a King!"

"No!" Odin gasped, holding Loki further from his chest, bringing back the fear of plummeting to the stone floor. "Even you, wild and capricious as you are, would not be so brazen!"

"You hold in your hands the first-born son of Laufey, King of Jotunheim," her words echoed about them.

"Laufey's heir!"

"Perhaps," her voice lost some of its assurance.

"What do you mean? If this is his son..."

"Not if Odin. It is his son. But while Laufey would love the babe, there would be some trouble with his subjects. As you well know, I am not his wife. And Hyrrokkin is a jealous bride. She would attempt to set him aside so that her brood, if she can ever tempt Laufey to her bed long enough to sire one, would rule."

"And yet you lowered yourself to birth his bastard," Odin's voice dripped with disappointment.

"I wanted a child. A strong, clever child. Laufey gave one to me. It is an unexpected misfortune that I will not be around to guide him to his birthright."

"What do you mean?"

"Use your eyes, Odin. Or eye, I should say. I am dying. My time came early, and as you so kindly pointed out, there was no one to assist in the birthing. I fear my little Loki will have to make do without me."

"Volla, no!"

"Oh, my darling girl." Loki wished he could comfort the lady who's voice he heard, so bereft did she sound.

Odin knelt down beside her in a movement so sudden that Loki cried out in fear. He could smell her now, though. Even though her scent was mixed with sweat and an odd metallic tang it still comforted him to be near her.

"I fear it is so," she said simply, reaching out to tenderly brush Loki's face.

"I will not lose you. Frigga loves you too well, and you have been all but a child to us both. A willful, stubborn child, but no less dear for all for all of that."

"Even you cannot stop death, Odin. But while I may not be able to return with you, I leave you a happy replacement."

"You cannot mean for me to take the child?"

Loki realized on some level that they were talking of him now, and anxious noises began to bubble up from inside him.

"I cannot raise him, and in my absence Hyrrokkin will seek to do him harm. Bring him to Frigga. Let him help heal the hurt my death will cause her."

"Nothing will do that. This will destroy her. The babe that killed you will be no substitute."

"My sister is stronger than you think. And Loki did not kill me! That was but chance and my own will to do as I please. Promise me, Odin Bor's Son. Swear to me now an oath over my death's blood that you will take my child to raise as a Prince of the Nine Realms."

"She knows me better than you do, old man."

There was a long moment where only Loki's own soft cries broke the silence. At last, the giant holding him bowed his head in acquiescence.

"I so swear. Loki son of Volla shall have a place in my hall and at my table, to be cared for as befits his birth and station as child of a Goddess."

"Thank you."

It was as though all the energy she had put forth to extract the promise from him had been the only thing holding her upright. With her words, she sank back against the wall, limp and spent. Odin took her slim pale had in his and brought it to his face in an oddly gentle gesture. Loki was surprised to see a fat tear fall from his intact eye.

"Ancestors," Odin intoned, words sound ripped from somewhere deep inside him, "Volla, Goddess of Secrets comes to you now. Know how much she was loved in life and grant her a seat in your halls among the glorious dead."

Another tear fell down, splashing onto Loki's face and causing his own eyes to close and for him to begin to cry as well. The tears mixed together, and in the swirl of saltwater his mind began to blur again.

He wanted to stay. He desperately wanted to stay with this dark-haired woman who named him and loved him. But the other woman, the one who had kept watch over him and helped to steer his course through all of these swirling memories was weeping. He could do nothing for the one but perhaps, if he could find her again, he could be of aid to the other.

"Come back to me, my Loki, my nephew and my son. Come back to yourself. Be whole and be happy."

***

"Odin, Son of Bor! We need to have a conversation. Now."

Caroline winced involuntarily as the door to the room slammed behind Frigga. In her brief time on Asgard, Loki's adopted mother had been kind, understanding, regal, everything one would expect and hope for her to be. While Caroline had been a bit intimidated by her, it had never occurred to her to outright fear Frigga.

That ended now as she stormed up to her husband, eyes blazing with anger. While not as bulky as her husband, Frigga stood nearly as tall as him, and the way her hand fingered the dagger on her hip spoke of more than a passing familiarity with a blade. Against her natural inclination Caroline could almost feel a reluctant sympathy for Odin.

"Frigga, you look upset," Odin stated the obvious. Is something bothering you? Perhaps we should go someplace private to discuss it."

Frigga's eyes narrowed to slits as she glared at her husband.

"We will speak right here and now," she proclaimed, voice commanding the room. "Is there anything you wish to tell me, my husband? Think long and hard."

"Asgard could not wish for a better Queen than you." Odin tried.

So fast that for a moment she thought she had imagined it, Caroline saw Frigga's hand shoot out and strike Odin squarely across his face hard enough that his whiskered head snapped to one side.

"Try again," his Queen instructed.

"Mother, what has come over you?" Thor's voice rang with concern.

"I wondered," Frigga's eyes did not move from her husband's face, "why it was that you were so opposed to Loki regaining his memories. After all, the secret had been let out. Our son might not remember his true origins, but enough others did that it hardly mattered beyond a personal level. The tale of Odin Allfather adopting the son of his mortal enemies and raising him for reasons benevolent or nefarious depending on the teller's inclinations was loose in the world."

"I wanted to spare you and our son grief," Odin tried to explain.

"Silence!" Much to Caroline's surprise Odin's jaw snapped shut. "As I was saying, there was no reason to keep secret the truth of Loki's Jotun blood. What then, would it be that you feared from the procedure?"

"Could I not simply worry about my younger son?"

"You could," Frigga snarled. "But you didn't. You feared something else. Tell me, Odin Allfather, Son of Bor. The story of how you found our son, a newborn babe, left all alone to freeze to death on an altar to some unknown God. That wasn't quite the way it happened, was it?"

"Frigga - "

"Mother, what are you saying?" Thor was blinking with confusion.

"You said it was a temple, didn't you?" Frigga asked in a tone of clamped down anger.

"I did, and it was."

"What sort of temple?" Frigga demanded.

"I don't see why -"

"WHAT SORT OF TEMPLE?"

"A Valor temple," Odin muttered.

"A Valor temple. On Jotunheim. That didn't strike you as strange?"

"Of course it did," Odin sounded like a truculant child. "That is why I was investigating in the first place."

"I see. And this temple, was it to any particular Valar God?"

"If you have something to say, just say it, Frigga," Odin snapped, changing tactics as his face turned red, obscuring the mark of his wife's handprint.

"Volla." Frigga hissed. "It was a temple to Volla."

"It may have been."

"May have been," Frigga mimicked harshly. "You think that in any universe I would not recognize a temple to my own sister?"

Caroline was uncertain what was happening under the words spoken by the Asgardian royal couple, but the air vibrated with tension and hostility. A quick glance to Thor was enough to show her that he was almost as lost as she was.

"My love -"

"You saw her!" Frigga wailed. "You spoke with her. My sister, the child I had all but raised after our parents left us for the ancestors' halls. I was nigh mad with grief and worry, scouring the universe for her. You found her and you hid that knowledge from me. You let me go on searching for her for decades, when you had witnessed her passing yourself."

"Father is this true?"

"Stay out of this, Thor," Odin shouted at his first born.

"Do not take out your guilt on our son!" Frigga stepped between Odin and Thor. "Answer me, husband. You saw my sister in her last moments."

"I did," Odin admitted reluctantly after a pregnant pause.

Once more, the sound of Frigga's slap echoed through the room.

"She had disgraced herself!" Odin said, clearly in pain but ignoring it. "We had thought she might have been abducted or have been on some secret quest on behalf of her devotees. Any of a dozen explanations had been bandied about as a reason for her disappearance, and any of them would have been more admirable than the truth that. I wanted to spare you the knowledge that your sister had left us of her own free will to become whore to the enemy."

He was clearly expecting the third slap, as he grabbed her wrist mid-swing. He was not, however, expecting the quick knee up that followed it. Odin staggered backwards, releasing Frigga as he doubled over in pain.

"My sister was a Princess of Valor and the Goddess of Secrets," Frigga's voice was ice cold. "She was no whore. She was a free spirit who chose to give herself to a King as his Consort. There is no shame in this. She gave birth to a son, the firstborn son of a King and a Goddess, a God in his own right. Her only mistake was in trusting you to care for him."

"I did care for him!" Odin's voice was rough with pain. "I brought him to you!"

"Yes, you brought him to me. You gave me the great joy of a second child to love and take pride in. You watched as we formed a bond of great depth, forged in no small part by our shared attributes. And did it never once occur to you to tell me he was my nephew? I had a living connection to my sister in the form of her only child and you kept that knowledge from me! How could you?"

"The people would not have understood her liaison to the leader of our enemies. That would have tainted their love of you. I wanted to protect your name!"

"You wanted to protect yourself! I don't give a damn about my name, and you know that. Let the people come to me if they have concerns. I have never once done anything to give them reason to doubt my devotion to the realm."

"The people love mother," Thor said quietly, daring his father's anger once more. "Of all of us, she is most beloved, and with reason."

"Thank you, Thor," Frigga's tone softened as she looked at her son.

"What does all this mean, mother?" Thor asked, struggling to make sense of it all.

Caroline couldn't blame him. The accusations had flown fast and viciously. She herself felt like an uncouth interloper in the middle of a family drama. Still, she felt the need to bear witness for Loki's sake, that she could let him know the level of devotion his mother showed him and, it seemed, his mother.

"It means that Loki was not just a random foundling," Frigga explained gently. "Nor just the cast-off son of King Laufey. Loki is more than your brother of the heart, Thor. He is your cousin, by my blood through his mother. My baby sister Volla, Goddess of Secrets. Who I loved more dear than any until I gave birth to you."

"More than your husband?"

Caroline would give Odin this, he was no coward. The question hung in the air as his queen squared her shoulders and turned to regard him with contempt. Slowly, she took a deep breath through her nose and let it out through her mouth, finding a calm Caroline could only envy.

"Despite my best instincts I do have love for you," the Allmother said at last. "If you wish for that to continue, I suggest finding something to do off realm for the foreseeable future. Perhaps absence will dull the killing anger that assails me when I look at you."

As she watched from the outside of the family triangle, Caroline held her breath, waiting to see how the all-powerful God would take being so dismissed. Thor's eyes comically flickered from his mother's steely stare to his father's glowering indecision. Caroline completely sympathized with him.

"I believe that there is some business on Nidavillere that could use my attention. I will leave in the morning."

"You will leave at once," Frigga's voice left no room for debate. "And you will take your time sorting out this business."

"I will leave at once" Odin growled in defeat. "Thor, you are Regent until my return."

"Yes, Father," Thor said in hushed voice full of amazement.

Odin spun and strode to the door. Only at the last did he stop, turning back to face his wife.

"Tell my son that I am glad that he is well. I do love Loki."

"In your way," Frigga qualified.

"I am what I am, Frigga. You knew that when we wed."

"Go, before I change my mind."

"Farewell, my love."

As Odin swept out of the room, it was as though tide of anger and tension left with him. The moment the door closed behind him it was as though the taut chord that had been keeping Frigga standing was snapped, and the tall, powerful Allmother who had brought low her husband crumpled to the floor, shaking with the tears she had kept unshed all through the confrontation.

***

"Take it slow, Princeling. Your mind is still settling."

The words were said in the dry, confident voice he had known all of his life.

Loki blinked his eyes into focus and saw Eir sitting across the room, legs crossed neatly and a small smile of accomplishment on her face.

"How does it feel to be whole again?" she asked.

"I will let you know," he said, rising carefully to a sitting position. "Was it real? Everything I saw and heard?"

"As real as any memory," she replied. "They lie, of course, from time to time, and are colored by our own perspectives, but for the most part what you saw is what happened."

"I am part Jotun."

It was not quite the first thing that came to his mind, but it was the first he felt comfortable saying in front of the healer. He did not think she would care to discuss how much he longed to go find Caroline and recreate their one blissful night together. If he thought his legs would hold him he would already be out the door.

"You are. Welcome to the family."

"That's right," he looked closer at the woman. "You have Jotun blood as well."

"I do," she said, as though confirming that she had blue eyes. "It was not always as uncommon as it is now."

"You told me that on purpose yesterday, didn't you?" he was still putting things together.

"It occurred to me that you might need someone to talk to who did not share our culture's prejudices. Someone who could share some of the more positive aspects of Jotunheim. I did not realize..."

Loki watched as the Eir drew a breath, clearly working out some internal conflict. It was strange. She had always seemed so unflappable. It was as if she herself was one of the frozen peaks of Jutonheim, cold, immovable, and unforgiving. Perhaps like that realm there was more to her than first glance suggested.

"Your mortal," she said at last. "Caroline. I understand now."

"Understand?" he asked, uncertain what she alluded to.

"I did not see why she should matter to you," Eir explained, if a bit reluctantly. "Mortals have such a short lifespan. They always struck me as shallow, fleeting things. What could they possibly do or say that would be of weight in the grand scope of our lives? Your Caroline though, she is something different. She saw the need in you, as clearly as any healer would, and found a way to help make it whole. She is a remarkable woman."

"She is indeed," Loki smiled, thinking of his tenacious little love building a Jotun bonfire in the woods. "I do not deserve her."

"Few of us get what we deserve. Don't let that stop you."

"Oh, I don't plan to," his grin widened, thinking that nothing would stop him from having her.

"Odin will not like it," Eir warned.

"Imagine how little I care," he replied.

Thinking of his father, Loki was suddenly transported to the memory of Odin confronting the dark haired woman in his memories.

"She was your mother," his expression must have given away his thoughts, as she easily tracked them. "The woman at the end."

"Volla," he said, feeling out the name.

"I knew her a little," Eir told him. "She was young, for a Goddess. Willful, daring. Frigga doted on her and, to my mind, overindulged her. Odin wanted to marry her to Frey, I think in an attempt to steady her. Anyone who knew them could see it would not suit."

"And so she ran away," he filled in the blanks. "And she ended up on Jotunheim."

"It would have intrigued her, I think. Volla loved secrets, finding them, keeping them. A forbidden world would have delighted her."

"I can understand that," Loki said, thinking that he might have more than one part of his legacy to explore in the not too distant future.

"I thought you might," Eir said with a laugh.

"The last part of my memories," he said, thought suddenly coming to him. "Or, should I say, the first. That was not during the period of my lost time."

"It was not."

"Yet you had me relive it anyway. Why?"

"Odin is a strong King of Asgard," Eir said carefully. "But he is not without his flaws. His manner when he returned with you always seemed off to me."

"You were there?" He asked. "You were privy to the secret?"

"I was," she nodded. "They knew, of course, of my heritage, and so they could trust me not to be horrified by a Frost Giant in our midst. I also would understand the prejudices the riled the realm in the wake of the war. I was sworn to secrecy, and then brought in to examine you, to make sure you were not ill, and that you would not suddenly return to your blue color, I am sure. Frigga was too caught up in the joy of a new babe to love, but it seemed to me that Odin was hiding something. It has bothered me all of these many centuries. I have tried to bring it up with Frigga, but..."

"She would not hear a word against her husband," Loki sighed, knowing all too well the wall that went up when Odin was maligned to his wife.

"Indeed. I'm afraid, with you mind laying open like a book before me, I could not resist flipping to the pages where the truth was written and bringing your mother with me. I am not sorry that I did so; Frigga needed to know, as did you. But I acknowledge that I broke my word to you not to dip into your other thoughts. I therefore apologize and will accept your condemnation."

"Given that your suspicions were proven more than right, I accept your apology without condemnation." Loki's face split into a wide, wicked grin. "After all, you were already witness to other memories of a far more personal nature."

Loki was delighted to see Eir's face tinge to scarlet as the memories he referred to crossed her mind.

"As I said," she mumbled, discomposed for perhaps the first time he had ever seen, "I might have underestimated your mortal. She is truly remarkable."

"That she is," he agreed whole heartedly. "In fact, now that the circulation seems to have returned to my legs..."

"And other places," Eir's eyes darted to that part of Loki that always seemed to know when Caroline was being discussed. "Go. Your champion deserves to see you well and whole."

"Thank you, Eir," he said, surprising them both by pulling her into an embrace. "I will never forget what you have done for me."

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