Page 144 of Valkyrie Unknown

This couldn't be purgatory. Mom had me baptized as a baby. Also, Finn said purgatory wasn't real.

A slip of paper appeared in mid air and floated down to me. At least that was becoming familiar.Finn told you a lot of things that aren't real. This isn't purgatory though.

Great. If the mysterious force could read my mind, maybe I was going insane.

Nah, I couldn't be so lucky.

There was someone standing next to me again, but it was a man with the same platinum blond hair as Callie. He was familiar, but not because I'd met him before. Something about him tugged my mind toward him.

Callie and the brunette woman stepped out of the door again, and Callie frowned. "Do you feel that?"

The man looked directly at me. "Yes."

Holy shit. "Hi. Hey. Where are we?" I said.

The man was looking through me more than at me, and he reached out.

I extended my hand as well. His passed through mine, but electricity sizzled over my skin and the hairs on the back of my arm stood on end. Another scene overlapped this one.

Unlike everything I’d seen this looked like a different room. Finn sat in a booth in what looked like a bar, with Lugh across from him.

“Don’t fuck this up,” Finn said.

“She was going to be paranoid about me regardless.” Lugh was as laid back as when we’d met him at Enid’s.

When was this?

It was difficult to make out details, but it looked like both men wore the same clothing as the day we met Enid.

“Besides, I was planting the next seed with Enid.” Lugh’s words could be a coincidence, but they felt like confirmation about my guess as to the timeline.

“What seed is that?” Finn sounded irritated. Skeptical.

“She’s going to meet a siren.”

She?

Azzie.

“If she survives, she’ll move on to the next obstacle, and if she doesn’t…” Was Lugh frowning? “If she doesn’t, then she wouldn’t make a good vessel, and I’ll move on to the next one. Regardless, you and your Potential get what you want.”

Another spark zinged through me, and this one burned. Callie and the two people she was with vanished, and so did the vision of Finn and Lugh.

“Bring it back.” Not as if asking would do me any good. They were gone.

The entire room around me wobbled, not under my feet but in my vision, and I was in the main lodge of Astrid's retreat. Despite me never being here, and only hearing her and Diego talk about it, I knew without question where I was.

Except I wasn't. The walls glitched, and I was in a farmhouse. Mom and I used to stay here when I was a kid, and she'd take me on survival trips. Except the furniture was covered with dusty sheets, and--

My head ached. What the fuck?

I was looking at myself on the floor next to Azzie. Other me was wrapped up in her under a sheet, both of us--them--very obviously naked.

Someone knocked.

I was in a forge I'd never seen before, and a spear head lay on the work table next to me. I reached for it.

Focus. It whispered in my mind the way Azzie's sword did. The way the ax from Loki had.

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