Doghur offered me a place to stay in the great hall that night with several of the female battle maddens as he referred to them. Maybe I was again falling in to trap of getting complacent with all these people, but they knew nothing of the Labs or what experiments that were like the ones I endured.

When the feast was finishing later that night Doghur introduced me to the leader of the battle maddens, Marhr. I'm tall, if I had to guess I would say I'm almost six foot and I'm only sixteen, but Marhr was a good head over me. The woman was still wearing a set of some type of leather body armor, her hair was draped over her right solder from behind and it was wrapped in and infract pattern, weaved into and back to its self. I just stared at it like moron, I had never seen something so nifty looking. She was as quick witted as she was quick for her size. Just looking at her I thought she was going to be gruff, but that idea was quickly squashed.

"So you're the Alexis, Swanduttor." She said as her hand shot out and was on my shoulder in a second drawing me away from looking at what she did to her hair. On instinct my wings bristled but didn't flair up, I was just a little surprised by her moment. "A true battle madden, your beauty and your fighting prowess shines greatly. It is a great honor to meet one such as yourself. Thank you Lord Dughur, I shall take charge of the young Valkyrie for the night, after such a battle she must be ready for some time to relax with her fellow sisters." Doghur only nodded as Marhr turned and with her hand still on my shoulder lead me off down the hall.

Wait what did by Swanduttor mean?

As we walked I looked to the older woman and again admired her knotted hair it just looked interesting.

"Um, Marhr. What did you mean by Swandottor?"

"Ah that's right you are still young in the language of our people."

Along with your world, your gods, your love for fighting, and how you got your hair to do that, it looks so cool I wasn't to try it with mine!

"Dottor is what the Midguardians call there daughters, and you are part Swan are you not?"

Nope got the wings for graduation.

I refrained from my smart mouth comment and just simply said 'Yes'.

"So you are Swandottor, or daughter of swan." Well ok then so now I had a daddy and his name was swan, and I was his daughter. I mean really it made a kind of since. We walked farther until finally we passed through one of the large door in the hall way to inter a smaller room with small tables and mirrors all lined up. Much like the vanity that I had back in the hall of the Valkyrie, except here there was a lot of them all lined up.

To the far side of the room where Marhr was leading me I could hear what sounded like laughing and general talking and water splashing. Marhr sat at one of the vanity's and then started to undress. I know my face turned a shad of red and due to my lovely pale complexion I'm sure it was like a light going off. I turned to give her some privacy till I heard her speak.

"Nothing to be shy of sister, the days battles is done now is time for relaxing." Really nothing, she was taking her clothes off like it was nothing.

"Umm I don't you know, uh." I trailed off, but swiftly turned around to face a fully nude, and ripped Marhr. She had muscles that I didn't even know you can have. Well there are a lot of things I don't know but damn. Admittedly I was kind of curious I had never met another female before and was surprised to see most things were about the same. Well other then in the chest, while Marhr had a 'rack' as I had heard them called, my 'rack' in comparison was greatly lacking.

Also take the wings out of the equation and we basically the same.

"We are all sisters here Alexis, you have nothing to fear. be sides it will be quite relaxing to have a soak in the spring."

Ok maybe I need to quite being so flighty about everything.

To heck with it.

I took a seat at one of the vanity's and began to unlace my sandals then slowly removed my dress, taking my time and gently folding it in such a way that I wouldn't hurt it. I then turned to Marhr who was watching me and nodded her approval. It wasn't a lustful look mind you, this just seemed to be what you did here. My hand flew up fast as I spotted a large white mass sailing toward my head but then I caught it and realized it was fluffy.

It was a towel, I held it to me and it was so soft. Marhr called for me to follow leading, not to slaughter but to a pool that was huge, rather from us at the back of the pool was agential water fall that game the room a slight white noise to the large area. in the pool were woman everywhere split into small groups some lounging and some just joking and talking.

This is what life is like, no testing, no mazes, no experimenting, just hanging out with people and making friends.

It really hit me then, was that what I was doing? Making friends, I looked up to Marhr is this how friends act? Or how it starts? Maybe but for now the hot spring did look really nice after a long day of crying, fighting and eating.

Just think were almost done with Alexis wondering if the world is going to fall down round her and she is starting to make friends. But there is another shoe that is going to fall in the next episode.