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A two bowl of Soon to be the Soggy Ramen 😎

       BORNE UPON THE SUSURRATION of early-autumn leaves, a stranger arrives upon the hill, a sun-kissed face turning downward to better observe the wanderer in his motion. For weeks had he followed the creature, unravelling the pattern of carnage -- of righteous retribution --  scattered from one town to the next.  Is this the man who strew blood in his wake? Venturing now towards a village it seemed, whose standing buildings teetered on the edge of collapse and whose fallen counterparts lay in heaps of rubble. Golden eyes flick upwards, over the retreating back of his target, and focus momentarily toward the settlement. Whispers of conversation carry upon a breeze, lingering laments of loss and pain, but also of hope, aspirations to sculpt a future from what remains. He hums lightly, as if in some way this satisfies his being, and then takes a step forward through the long grass. 

Distance scrounged upon the faint flutter of many wings, he lands once more behind the creature, more pronounced in his arrival. Were the creature to turn now, he would see a young man smaller than himself standing higher ‘pon the hill, adorned in dark linens which tapered at the waist with knotted black cord. Upon his shoulders rests a long wool coat, a mild barrier against the frigid bite of the morning air and the dew tickling their ankles. When he speaks to the other’s back, his voice is like honey, sweet and youthful: 

DEEP EXHALE TO FOLLOW DEEPER INHALE . HE'S VENTED ALL HE CAN , UNTIL SKIES TURNED DARK AND DOWNPOUR SATIATED THE EARTH . petrichor greets his receding anger , calmness that follows a storm , sunlight breaking through clouds .

and Emet , always by to offer a friendly hand , a shoulder , support through - and - through . sometimes these explosions of frustration must run their course , and Thor's grateful that he gets an opportunity to lay vulnerabilities across the earth : visible only to Ymir , the giant of creation , and Emet , his sole companion .

smiles , now : expression that one may go days without seeing following the fateful events with Skrýmir . and rests his head gently against Emet's , in a comfortable silence that brings them both together .