So Much For Never Talking Again

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Stonegit starred at Hel for a long, long moment from where he stood guard outside of Egil’s throne room. Hel didn’t meet his gaze as she kept her disguise tugged closely around her. Stonegit drew a slow breath. “Well…I wish I was surprised.” He sighed. “Not sure if all my time in the void with you took the edge off my ability to feel shock, or if it’s just because I’ve seen too many weird things.”
“Stop it…” Hel said quietly, and the bodyguard tilted his head. 
It had not been the response he had expected from the typically sassy goddess. He turned to face her a little more. “What’s you’re problem? Aside from the obvious?” 
Hel’s fingers dug tighter into the cloaks fabric. “I…being…ahem…Stonegit, being like this now…I feel, and remember things as a moral…and that includes what I did to you.”
Stonegit was quiet, and so Hel pressed on.
“I realize now necessity doesn’t soften the blow for someone who was wronged. Fear over the war blinded me. The influence of my less benevolent family members blinded me. I…blinded me…I not only used you as a proxy, and forced you to turn into the worst possible version of yourself, but I took the extra steps to torment and humiliate you. And then I had to gall to act as though your smart ass attitude towards me was somehow a justification for me to stop talking to you. As if it were somehow worse than what I did…” She swallowed as she bowed forward. “My child…I beg your forgiveness.” 
Stonegit watched her in thought for a moment, and then stepped over and carefully guided her shoulders back up. “Hey…Hel.” He gave a quiet shake of his head. “Not the worst thing I’ve had to deal with, not even the worst thing by comparison of this last year.” He rubbed the back of his neck. “Look, I know I don’t talk to you much, frankly I haven’t really put much stock into you and your bearing on my life. Can’t really say why, you just…I dunno…Half the time I don’t even feel like I believe in you even though I know you exist. There’s no real anger behind it, and it’s not because you were mean to me either.” 
“Mean?!” Hel blustered. “You call what I did to you mean? That’s a bit of an understat-” She trailed off. “By the nine realms you really haven’t changed.” She gave a shake of her head with a soft laugh. “What I did to you was a picnic compared to Haddock giving an offhanded comment. Yeesh.”  
Stonegit shrugged. “Another reason I’m not really pissed. Your methods were brutal. But it was to save people. I know what that’s like. Your methods were cruel, but they were in an attempt to get me to see the bad places I had put myself, and what I needed to do to get out of them. Sure, it doesn’t excuse it, but I also didn’t really make some of the choices I should have, even though you made them obvious to me. And for that…well…yeah I forgive you, but I also don’t hold it much against you either.” 
Hel carefully folded her fingers together. “I…would really like to take back what I said…I do want to talk to you more.”
“Would you be offended if I said I don’t?” Stonegit asked mildly.
The words cut far deeper than Hel expected them to. Another draw back of mortality. However, after a moment of thought, she realized what Stonegit actually meant. For whatever reason their relationship was colder, distant, and stranger despite that they had probably spent more time together than most deities and mortals. And there really wasn’t a discernable reason why, at least as far as either of them knew. But Hel still filled a needed place in Stonegit’s heart, just as he did for her. “You know what…no.” Hel said. “No I think…I think we made the right call. Although now I feel weird for talking to you in the construct. That’s so bizarre.”
“I feel that.” Stonegit sighed. “I made a few death promises in my life, to Vidar…Pitch. And whenever I do, I always seem to bail on them. And despite everything, I feel like that says something against my character and resolve. You’ll get used to it though. Just part of being human.” He gave her a small smile. “Get back to normal soon okay?”