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turned to the tactical display as a Jotunn Star Killer emerged from the spatial distortion.  Rhea's face appeared on our screen again, “I shall transport in five thousand oscillations.”  Then she cut the transmission again.
    Oscillations? Oscillations of what?  Arina answered the unasked question for me.  “They have started pulsing the energy flow through the quantum entanglement tunnel at a frequency just short of one second intervals, so she will arrive in five minutes.”
    Odin spoke a single word, “Valkyrie.” The daughters of Odin were sprinting out to the wind rider pads with Artemis at our side.  Kroth, Pegasus was in orbit with Kitty.  It is funny how used you get to certain things like having your friends of the Sky transporting you around.  I smiled at the thought of Pegasus.  There is no ship more valiant than her, she almost sacrificed her life for me once.
    Arina had us airborne before the doors of the vessel had closed.  She was as efficient as ever and the most skilled pilot in Valhalla except maybe for Kitty.  I looked around, it felt like we were riding in a machine.  I mean I know the interior is identical to Pegasus and the other Sky, but without the warmth and welcoming of her artificial intelligence.
    We landed smoothly at the main gates and strode out toward the shoulder to shoulder Einherjer, holding the line at the gates as immovable as they have always been for eons.  My heart swelled with pride for these men.  Artemis was pleading with me, “Kara, you mustn't allow her inside the dome shield.”
    I placed the back of a hand on her cheek.  “We must learn all we can.  Perhaps we can even determine how she was able to lure your men away.”
    She took a deep breath and nodded once, her eyes dark.  I saw the subtle movement of her straightening in resolve as she, in one fluid motion, removed her bow and one of her high-tech arrows from her back, and held them in one hand.  Then she used an Earth axiom that she has become fond of after hearing Kate use it on occasion.  “Then I have your back.”
    I smiled then reached a hand out and tapped the shoulder of the secondary line of men and he wordlessly made a hole for us. Then I reached up and roughly slugged the shoulder of a huge man at the center of the primary line who looked to be carved from solid plasti-steel.  Tyr was prepared and rolled his shoulder out of the way, avoiding most of my strike.  He shot me a playful grin as he made a hole.  I squinted an eye and shook my fist at him, then smiled.
    He chuckled.“Well met Valkyrie and the most fair maiden of Olympus.”
    I rolled my eyes as I stepped through the shield and out into the jungle clearing on Ragnarok as I said, “Well met old friend.”
    Artemis said from behind me, “Kroth Tyr, when will you stop trying to win me over to the bed of you and your mates?”
    He replied with humor, “When the Tree of Ages withers and dies lovely hunter.”
    Kate bumped my hip and cast her eyes back with a grin, she was just as entertained by their familiar banter as I was.  I took a moment to wonder again, why Artemis has never taken anyone to her bed in all her centuries with us here in Valhalla.
    We spread out in our familiar line.  Kate to my right then Mist and Inatra to my left. Arina moved behind me and Artemis a few paces to the left and back from Inatra, where she had a full view of us and any approaching threat.  She always kept a clear line of sight.  I appreciated that more than you can imagine.  Whatever she aimed at, that woman would hit.  I knew she was endlessly calculating angles and strategies just like I was.
    A minute later an enormous cascade of energy streamed down from the sky and struck the ground fifty yards in front of us. My eyesight dimmed from the brightness as my Verr snapped a protective overlay across my vision.  This was a Jotunn transport beam.  I still couldn't grasp the fact that the Frost Giants and the Titans were of the same