Fourth Floor Common Room, Sunday Late Afternoon to Evening

[bearmaidenfair]

It was the autumnal equinox, the day when summer died, and it might not mean much to most people here, but it meant a lot to Vider. She'd found the right channel on the TV, though she had to hit the remote a few times to get it to show up.

On the TV screen, they were building a bonfire. A little before sunset they would light it, and then would come Baldur the Beautiful. The spear would pierce his heart and he would die, and the summer with him, and they would gather his ashes up and keep them safe--extra safe, after last year--until the spring when he and the light would be reborn. It had always been this way. Vider just hadn't known Baldur before, and it didn't seem to matter that he barely remembered her, and was kind of a jerk, as it turned out. She still felt the ritual more deeply than she ever had in her life.

((Open common room is, of course, open. We get a lot of info on the rituals surrounding Baldur's resurrection but very little on the flip side, so I'm keeping it vague. But if you want Vider to explain why a guy's getting speared on live television this is the place.))

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[abitlowkey]

Loki waited very patiently, grabbing a bag of potato chips before perching on the arm of the couch. She could always explain or he might simple infer.

[bearmaidenfair]

What he could infer right now was that a bunch of valkyries were building a pyre at the base of the New World Tree while the scrolling news ticker went over Baldur's disappearance in the spring. Oh, look, there went her name: Baldur the Beautiful was returned to Bright Home by Soren Bearstar and Vider Bearskin. Awkward.

"We expect the god in just a few minutes, as sunset approaches," the news anchor said, like everyone didn't already know that part, too. "I swear they just talk to hear themselves do it," Vider grumbled.

[abitlowkey]

"Oh, he still lives?" Look, last he'd known, Balder was in Hela's realm.

[bearmaidenfair]

"It's not sunset yet," Vider pointed out. "Give it ten minutes."

[abitlowkey]

Loki's eyebrows went up and so did his phone in order to film this. How strange that there was a world where ritualistic sacrifice of his brother was broadcast for all to see.

"I am sure it will be spectacular."

[bearmaidenfair]

"Are you--filming the television?" Vider did not understand her former patron and playmate sometimes.

[abitlowkey]

"Yes I am," Loki confirmed cheerfully. "I would hate for my brother to miss out on this."

[bearmaidenfair]

"It happens every year," Vider pointed out. Granted, not usually with this much security, but that was probably partially Loki's fault, so.

[abitlowkey]

Rude!

"But he has his other shows tonight."

[bearmaidenfair]

"There are no other shows tonight," Vider informed him. No matter what this TV might think.

[abitlowkey]

"Of course not," Loki said, tone dripping with sympathy.