All the King's Horses & All the King's Men

Baldr Egilson

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Young Baldr Egilson took a deep, deep breath as he stepped through the front doors of his childhood home. The air smelled of lilacs and roses - his mother's favorites - as well as the sharp lemon tang of the cleaner used on the hardwood floors and the musky undertone of aged hickory. It smelled of home and with the scent came a flood of happy memories.

Behind closed lids he saw his mother's face bathed in bright sunlight, then purple and white flowers speckled with morning dew, and a beautiful sparkling pool of water at the base of a gentle waterfall. He had been so happy here in the earliest years of his life.

As he moved silently through the seemingly empty house, he felt completely at home yet also as if he was now a stranger to this place he had once called home. All the walls, doorways, and furniture were exactly as he remembered them - yet everything was strangely different... Changed in some subtle way he couldn't put his finger on.
 
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Baldr Egilson

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He found his mother in the garden, looking wistful. Her eyes were closed and she was sitting on a sculpted stone bench among the beautiful white roses she loved so much. The sun glinted off her golden hair and made her look like an immortal goddess. Baldr found himself overwhelmed by her beauty and he silently chastised himself for forgetting in his absence. He also thought that he would be hard pressed to find such a beauty to sire his own children with.

"Mother," he spoke in a deep baritone that she had not heard for some years.

Her sparkling blue eyes opened and set upon her son for the first time in three and a half years. Slowly, she looked him up and down - a small smile playing on her bright red lips. Baldr knew that he had grown since last they met. Knew that he was a full man now, not a boy about to become a man. His muscles had bulked from his insistent training, leaving no trace of any childhood baby fat. He thought he sensed her approval.
 
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"My son," came her soft reply. She gracefully rose to her feet, flowing white silk trailing from her dress. She was a short woman, the top of her head coming only to his shoulder height, but that did nothing to diminish her powerful presence.

Baldr closed the distance between them with a single step and leaned down to embrace his mother. The fresh floral scent of her filled his nose and he breathed deep. How good it felt to be home! embraced him no less tightly, but then took hold of his arms and held him out from her. She took a moment to look deep into his bright blue eyes - so like her own - and something about her gaze sent a cold shiver of apprehension down Baldr's spine.

He spoke in an attempt to shake that feeling off, for what bad could come of this most wonderful reunion? "You look well, mother! It's so good to see you after so long!"

"It is good to see you too, Baldr. I am glad that you have come." Her smile widened in genuine delight.

 
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F'rey let go of her son's arms and looked down to her flowers as she turned away from him. Baldr once again felt that nibble of apprehension at his spine, and this time he couldn't dismiss it so easily. What was wrong? Something was amiss, he knew it. He trusted his beloved mother, though and so he kept silent until she was ready to speak.

It was a long period of silence before she did, F'rey gently caressing the beautiful blooms of her flowers that she so loved as she formed the words she would say to her most promising son. When finally she did speak, her words shook young Baldr to his very core.

"I must leave this place, my son. There is nothing left for me to accomplish here. The last of my children have found their rightful home with the Eternal, and I have been unable to bear another for many years now."

Baldr shook his head with confusion as much as with defiance. "What do you mean, mother? Just because you are unable to bear more children doesn't mean you should go. Where would you go? This is your home, my home! You can't just leave!"

 
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