rootandbranch: (hold fast the storm is always near)
Geir ([personal profile] rootandbranch) wrote in [community profile] spellminders 2018-02-02 01:46 am (UTC)

Not for long, and not for a very long time.

[pauses, not really a hesitation, just trying to get it straight in his head...]

I was born in Jotunheim, of Angrboda the giantess. When the gods realized me and my brother and sister were alive, they took us from Mother's hall and brought us to Odin's in Asgard. Dad would visit us there sometimes. When I was a little bigger, Odin threw me in the sea to wait for the end of the world, and I swam around down there till I saw a hook. Thor was fishing. I was still so small, he pulled me right up.

[still kind of glum at the memory tbh!!!!!! ugh, he'd felt like a goldfish, and when he'd tried to bite Thor out of pique, Thor had just laughed. Geir wasn't so much bigger than a man that a man couldn't hold his jaws open. Thor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

I wasn't very old then. Anyway, Dad got really angry after Hymir threw me back. He said I couldn't be trusted to the sea till I was big enough not to make more of a fool of myself than I already was, and he buried me. Then I fell asleep. Then Vern called me, and I woke up. It was too early.

[...sigh. it's not a very long or exciting story, and Geir knows it. the exciting part of his story was supposed to be the end.]

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