Both Eir and Aldi had finished a few minutes before me and were sitting quietly as I devoured most of the feast. Aldi was the first to speak in her somber and welcoming tone.

"You must have had a great journey to be so ravenous dear." It was now as I looked at the older lady that I really took her in. Her hair was gray, the color taken by the years no doubt. Her sight too was taken by her years, but even so her beauty was still there in a way. The way she spoke, how she stood, slightly hunched but proud.

"So you traveled all this way just to visit Freya's hall." It was time to try and make my lie more believable. I hope. "As you can see there are no Valkyrie here as the story's you were told."

"What's a Valkyrie?" Aldi's eye brow rose slightly and she tilted her head as if to get hear better.

"I see whatever story's you were heard on my dear were grandly diluted." She looked up above the table to a point in the great dining hall then the room seemed to light up, and translucent images began to fly about in a rainbow of colors.

The scene before me was of the great hall, but it was filled by people but not just any people but people with wings. More people like me, my breath hitched and I was spellbound as I watched.

There were others her as well without wings, but I started to realize that there were mostly females here. No men from what I could see, that seemed odd but I was too awed to make anything of it. The images were enough to make me want to cry, they all seemed like a family, like sisters. So what happened to them?

As if reading my mind Aldi spoke putting contest to the images she was magically showing us, a fact that would later visit with surprise and fear.

"The Valkyrie were once numerous, a sisterhood unlike any other. We were a family." Aldi trailed off a longing in her voice but she recovered and was back on track. "You are in the great hall of Freya, Sessrumnir. Though most do not refer to it by such a name any more, it like the true Valkyrie was lost to the ages."

The scene began to swirl and before us appeared a lady, was soon corrected that it wasn't just a lady but The Lady. She was sitting at a small pond she was looking to the pong, to her reflection within.

"Freya, her name means The Lady. She was the goddess of love, lust, beauty, sorcery, fertility, gold, war and death. Mother of the Valkyrie the true battle maidens. All though she could be peaceful she could also be a fierce warrior in battle and was not to be trifled with."

As gracefully as a ripple of water her head raised, and then she brought a soft white wing forward bruising a gentle lock of her honey golden hair from her eyes. Her eyes looking to use, bit my lip so hard I tasted blood. One aside of blue it was un natural while the other was red.

Holy Choco Taco's this is not possible, this is a bad joke a game to someone. She looks like me why does she look like me!?

I stood interrupting whatever Aldi was saying, my chair clattered to the ground behind me and I looked to the old lady in horror as she seemed to look to me. Eir was her usual came self. Were they playing me? Were they part of the Lab, this could not be happening this was too much.

"What sick joke are you playing?" Aldi didn't answer and I didn't give her time to. I turned running from the hall from this sick joke, what the hell. The scientists had never done anything without a reason, and this had to be some kind of test. A morbid one that I would have no part in.

I ran not paying attention to when just needing to get away from those images, from Eir and Aldi.

This can't be real. It's just another test.

I ran till I arrived at the garden of Twilight, then I removed my cloak, and with another step the threw myself skyward unfurling my wings and flying as fast as I could toward the twilight on the horizon. I turned back for just a moment to see Eir looking at me and her face was one of aww. No longer the monotone calm one she had since I arrived. She had a long of genuine surprise, but I didn't care.

I flew as fast as I could off toward the horizon, until Eir and the world below was gone.

So it seems that all the good is just a joke, or at least that what Alexis thinks. Poor girl just saw her reflection earlier and now they are showing her a lady that looks like her, and she even has wings just like here. I know some might think that Alexis is just Freya and just can't remember or she is like a clone or something well let me just squash that now. She is not. She is 97% Human and 3% Swan dear readers.

If you are a fan of Deviant Art I thought some of you might like to read on there. Also there is some art work for Alexis on my dA. See you next week.

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