V is for Valkyrie
Valkyrie: one of the female spirits who take the souls of slain warriors to Valhalla.
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Gene remembered reading about Norse mythology in his living life. They were the choosers of the slain on the battle field, declaring if the man would die or live. They would bring the souls either to Freyja's field, or to Odin's hall, Valhalla.
He never saw anybody come to him after his death. There was no being, no beautiful woman to take him away to the afterlife. Instead, he was frozen in time. Forever stuck on the Earth.
Then there was a beautiful valkyrie that came to him. And it was only through her that he found peace in himself.