Disclaimer- The Dark Valkyrie mine. (well really from Norse Mythology but who started that?)
Royal Inquisition
Just my luck that when I walked in the diner the next afternoon after school, the song Fall For You by Secondhand Serenade could be heard faintly from the speakers in the ceiling. He was seated in the back corner booth of the restaurant, and by he I don't mean Edward. He smiled when he recognized me, but I didn't smile back and immediately he knew why.
Abruptly, after Edward left and Charlie stopped giving me the "are you sure you're in the right mind" look, I got on my computer and Googled Valkyries or whatever he was. Wikipedia surprisingly had enough information to calm the hurricane raging inside my head.
Valkyrie- (Old Norse Valkyrja meaning "choosers of the Slain") any one of the host of maidens that chose who won or died in battle. The Valyries would bring their chosen to the hall of the god Odin in Valhalla.
Now I knew why Edward was in such hysterics about me being in the same dimension as Jeremiah. I thought about the part in the definition where it said "host of maidens" and understood why Edward called him, well it an it.There had to be some semi-logical explanation like maybe his mom was a Valkyrie and his dad was human? I didn't know the slightest how inhuman beings came to exist but I was about to find out. No beating around the bush I told myself, straight questions, straight answers.
I sat down quietly trying not to disturb the "uneasy peace" and tried not to think about his eyes burning holes through my forehead. All my attempts at starting the conversation were lost somewhere between my tongue and teeth.
"Its really not what you think," he started.
"Not really what I think? Then what is it? Some kind of illusion? Because I'm pretty tired off being left in the dark about these kinds of things. I mean first Edward, then Jacob, now you? It seems everyday now I'm discovering a new species of legendary animal/people. And that's not normal!" I said in a harsh whisper.
"What I am, It's hard to explain to most people. I'm sure you know by now that I'm a....um."
"Valkyrie?"
"Yes, that, but you must know the details to know the full picture. My race of people are only descendants of the Handmaidens of Odin. We are the Dark Valkyries, and, if you can see, "dark" as an opposite of "light" then you'll see that I'm not some mutant half-breed, I am male by the way."
I nodded. "So you're not an it, and you don't kill people?"
"Well, it's not that straight forward. I do decide who wins and who loses in the most subtle sense of the phrase."
"So then, am I to assume that you're an immortal or is there an excpetion in this case?" I was hoping this one was closer to my age.
"I'm sorry but, in the beginning, the very beginning, there were the Seven. The original judges of the gods, delegated four of themselves to patrol the human world. From there the deities strayed, divulging themselves in human pleasures, and worldly goods. They turned evil, and the Three Valkyries that were reigning supreme destroyed them... or so they thought. The one that was left betrayed the Three to Odin making him think it was them that defaced the name of the Valkyrie. So he banished them, free to walk among the mortals but forbidden ever to return to Valhalla again. They were punished to suffer in the human realm forever. So we lived, or really existed until we learned and evolved into what we now know ourselves as the Dark Valkyries, we choose who lives who dies, who's triumphant and who's defeated. It was a hard life, but we learned to adapt."
"So how old are you really?" I asked.
"About forty.."
"Oh well that's... smaller then I expected."
"...thousand, forty thousand."
I could feel my jaw hit the table. "Forty thousand, you could have mentioned that, I dunno, first! I mean you're older then most of the countries in the world!"
"I didn't want to scare you, believe me. I'm sorry, but I didn't have a choice about who I am."
"It's okay really, I-I've dealt with immortals before."
"We're okay then?"
"Yes, very okay."
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