MOO
The party's almost here.
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Freya noticed Pickles looking at her, but she payed it no mind. He probably liked her. She got those kind of looks all the time when she was in school and ignored them. High school age people annoyed her to no end.
She gnored the attractive redhead for the moment and instead thought again of what to be for the party. A vampire? No. Vampires had darker hair, that she knew of. A Valkyrie? She didn't have anything like armor.
She did have those plastic tooth cap vampire fangs, but they were too big for her mouth.
While she thought about it, the rest of the band decided to call it a night and went to bed.
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Over the next few days, Toki kept asking the roadies if any packages had come for him. Every day, they said no. He was beginning to worry that the packages wouldn't come in time for the release party.
But luck was with him. The day before the release of their newest album, and the halloween combination release party, the packages came. Three boxes, one larger than the others.
Delighted, he tore off to his bedroom without an explanation. He knew the others were wondering what on earth was wrong with him, but he didn't give a damn.
He tore open the boxes and began arranging the items inside with the leather armor he had got for Freya at the mall. Perfect.
He went to look for her. He wanted to make this a surprise.
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Twenty minutes later, he found her playing a set of drums. He recognized it as the set Pickles used until he got his newer set. He wondered if he knew she was using it. He probably did. He got the feeling the drummer liked his sister. That was good. At least someone else from Dethklok did.
"Come ons! I gots somesing to shows you!" he said urgently.
She looked surprised for a moment before he grabbed her wrist and began tugging her towards the door.
He brought her to his bedroom and showed her what he had layed out on his bed, which was made.
Her expression was skeptical at first.
"For yours! For sa Halloween party! You could be de goddess Freya!" he said.
"Wow... where did you get all this stuff?" she asked, running a hand over the white skirt. It was bunched up and rippled and had large slits up both legs, stopping just below the hips. It reached the bottom of her shins and looked sort of Roman and sort of goddess-ie.
"The internet," he replied.
"You mean, you bought all this? Toki..." she started, then trailed off. Toki understood, although he wasn't sure how. She had grown up in a shelter, a place for unwanted kids. She wasn't used to money and she wasn't used to people buying things for her. She might even think she didn't deserve such niceties.
But he thought she would be a hit at the party. He wanted her to look nice. Maybe it would encourage her to make more friends. She might even get a boyfriend, he thought, smirking. That would be cool. Then Nathan couldn't accuse her of doing nothing around Mordhaus. She would have somewhere else to be.
He just wanted her to be happy, was what it was.
"Can I try it all on?" she asked.
"Yeahs!" said Toki. It was why he had got it, after all! So she could wear it!
He turned around so she could get changed and instead he stared at the photos of his parents that hung on his wall. Solemn, always. Never smiling. He wondered if they had ever smiled.
"Okay. I just can't get this thing tightened," she said from behind him.
He turned back around and saw that she wore the skirt and the armor but not the hair circlet or the necklace.
She was struggling to tighten the leather lacings on the sides of the armor. He helped her out and when it was adjusted to fit her, she looked a bit less like herself and a bit more like the determined and much beloved ancient goddess she was named after. Still too thin, though.
He had no idea how to deal with the golden hair circlet, so he left that. Maybe the Mordhaus librarian would be able to help her with that.
She put the necklace on and looked at herself in the mirror he had on the wall.
"Wow. I look like those paintings of the goddess," she said, and she attempted a humorless smile. Did she like it?
"I love it, Toki, wow. This is so cool," she said, and then she truly smiled. She had been named correctly. Freya. Goddess of beauty and love and hope to wounded soldiers on the battlefiled.
She turned back to him.
"What are you going as?" she asked.
"A viking. People always calls me a vikings child, so I'm going as a viking so they has an excuse," he said, and he pointed to the horned helmet in the corner.
"Wow, cool. So a viking and a Nord Goddess, huh? We'll be a hit," she said, joking. She turned back into the mirror and straightened the ornate necklace at her throat.
"Tomorrow, right?" she asked.
"Yup. Come ons! Let's go ask the librorian if she cans helps you wis the hair thing!" said Toki.
He and his sister headed in the direction of the library.
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