Silmeria sat in the Great Hall, arms crossed and frowning at a chessboard in the midst of a game. Several minutes passed before finally moving a piece and then turning the board around to play continue playing the other side. Ever since learning about the game, she had spent time practicing with the set she asked a house elf to bring to her
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"While it is said that one's greatest opponent is oneself, playing a two-person game alone doesn't strike me as any particular kind of fun."
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"Is playing games included in a demon's idea of fun?"
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There were too many bystanders around for that. Besides, he's already broken multiple demon conventions by being articulate, polite and relatively hygienic.
"Are demons given names?"
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Unless, of course, it was all a great ploy to betray all he made grow to trust him.
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She moved another pawn.
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Not so much by Silmeria, exactly, but she had seen who her sisters had chosen in the Hall. For herself, she would have taken notice of a demon who moved so contrary to its nature.
"How did you accomplish it?"
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That, and their leader had a tenacity that denied death, and a lucky heritage to back it up, but it was mostly the machismo that kept them at their job. There was a reputation at stake, there.
"And you, Lady Silmeria? You mentioned einherjar, have your adventures leaned towards the world-at-stake variety?"
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"Yes, there had been an instance where the greed of certain individuals threatened to unbalance the world tree and cause eventual annihilation of all."
In his desire for power, Odin had taken the Dragon Orb, the treasure that kept Midgard stable. Very foolish, given that if the mortal world collapsed, so would the world of gods. Lezard's theft of the treasures would also have caused such an end, only this was less foolish in that he had created his own independent world tree to support him.
"Preventing that was more a matter of sacrifice than luck. Though luck certainly has its place in such events."
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