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“Gods! Hilda… you’re back?” Revna asked softly.
Hilda bellowed a warrior’s victory cry and leapt from the doorstep, her arms outstretched to grab the two women, carrying them down into the snow of the drive.
Three more Valkyrie swooped down from the sky to land a few feet back from the three wrestling in the snow. Hilda popped back up to her feet and moved to grip the forearms of the three women smiling at her in delight.
“Ingrid! Runa! Sylvi! So good to see you again!” Hilda exclaimed.
Revna pushed herself to her feet, brushing the snow from herself as she continued to stare at Hilda in shock. Her companion, Kari, scowled at Revna from the ground and got to her feet on her own.
Sigrid appeared in the doorway, and all eyes went to her.
“Sweet miracles, it’s true!” Runa gasped, and Sigrid’s face burst into a dazzling smile. She stepped out to lean against Henry. Eyes snapped to him, and smiles disappeared as comprehension dawned.
“That’s the father?!?” Kari snarled.
Sigrid looked to Henry. “Can you switch to your glamor?”
He nodded, and he was suddenly Human in jeans and a leather winter coat.
“That’s just a glamor!” Revna cried.
Sigrid’s smile didn’t waver, and Hilda watched her daughter proudly.
“You know a Valkyrie can only become pregnant if her body chooses a suitable Human male. Henry’s glamor is powered by Wild Magic and has properties unlike any other. It matches the desires and needs of his partner. Henry was able to give a Kitsune a child. He was able to give me one as well.”
“This Wild Magic, just how strong is it?” Revna asked doubtfully.
Sigrid looked at her. “I cannot don my armor for obvious reasons, but I can give you a little demonstration.”
She looked at Henry and gripped his hand. “Charge me up,” she whispered.
He nodded and fed power into her body until she let go with a sigh. Henry stepped away and turned his face as he closed his eyes tight.
Sigrid’s wings snapped out to full extension, and everyone staggered back, Revna falling to her ass once more as the front lawn momentarily became full sun midday instead of the dull gray stormy afternoon. She pulled her wings in, and the dim light returned.
Revna stood again, patting the snow from her ass and blinking the spots from her eyes. She looked to Hilda, who was staring at her daughter in awe. “You didn’t know?” Revna asked.
“No, she hadn’t mentioned she was powered by this new magic yet.”
“A glamor cannot read and respond to desires and needs!” Kari insisted.
Sigrid looked to Henry, who was looking back at her pleadingly. “I’m sorry, Henry. They need to see it working.”
His shoulders dropped. “I’m gonna put up another privacy field, so everyone hold still,” he growled.
The Valkyries looked at each other as Henry created a dome over the immediate group. Now they were invisible from outside it. Taking a deep breath, he dropped the clothes from his glamor.
“Ooo! Very nice, Henry!” Hilda purred.
Everyone got a good look, so he dropped his glamor, canceled the privacy field, and shot an annoyed glance at Sigrid.
Kari gave Sigrid a frustrated look. “All this proves is that he has a good penis.”
“Hold your hands up to show the length you saw,” Sigrid instructed as she demonstrated what she saw. The gathered Valkyrie held their hands up and stared at each other’s measurements. Some were close, but some were definitely not. Everyone looked at Revna as her hands were a good twelve inches apart. She stared in surprise at the others.
“Now use your hand to indicate its girth,” Sigrid said.
They compared again, and no one had the same measurement. They all looked at Revna, who was using two hands.
“Hey! Don’t kink-shame me!” she barked and eyed Henry hungrily.
“Also note that Kitsune are wielders of the old realm magic. Wild Magic is toxic to them. Henry’s body is saturated with Wild Magic, but he was able to make love to the Kitsune, help her conceive, and his essence contained no Wild Magic, so she was protected. This was what she needed, so this is what the glamor did for her. I’m linked to the Wild Magic realm, so Henry’s energy just powers me up. What I needed for creating a child, he provided. He gave me this.”
“But he’s not Human,” Kari insisted.
“No, he’s not. He’s a Satyr and a beautiful person.”
“What if the child isn’t a Valkyrie?” Sylvi asked.
Sigrid giggled, and the others shifted uncomfortably. “If she wasn’t a Valkyrie, she wouldn’t have been in such a hurry to be born.”
She shook her head gently at the doubting expressions. “You only need to wait a few more hours to see for yourselves. You’ve already waited forty-five years since the last birth. I think you can be patient a little while longer.”
She went back into the house, and Henry stood to the side of the door as the women followed her inside. Revna was last and paused before him. This close, Henry realized just how massive she was. Then he jolted as her fingers were under his kilt, wrapping around his cock.
“Mmmm, you don’t disappoint, do you,” she purred.
He knocked her hand away and looked her in the eye. “No, I don’t, but for you, I’ll make an exception.”
She blinked then laughed as she joined the others. Hilda looked back and saw the suppressed rage on Henry’s face. She frowned at Revna.
Henry pulled the front door closed and remained outside to cool off.
He saw the Silver Soldiers race by, dragging their big snow scoops behind them. He walked around the house and saw the shovels leaning against the shed. He realized the soldiers were recharging, so he waited. They soon came rushing back, all smiles.
Specialist Feinberg stopped before him. “This was a lot more fun than guarding a hospital room, and that charging station is amazing! I wish we had one of these in Washington.”
“Has the Strike Zone started to fade?” Henry asked.
“No, the power there is still sharp as glass shards,” Dane replied.NôvelDrama.Org exclusive content.
Henry frowned. That was odd. Maybe he’d be allowed to look into that. He smiled at the group. “Thank you for your efforts today on such short notice.”
“Like I said, it was fun! Our pleasure,” Feinberg said with a nod. They opened the shed door and stepped through carrying their snow movers, and Dane closed the door behind them. Henry released the spell.
On his way back to the home, he spotted the twinkling of headlights in the distance, moving along the lane. He moved faster and was at the front door when a trio of Valkyrie marched up the drive to face him. Uniformly large and strong, striding boldly into the unknown. The two at the back might have been twins. Blonde and blue-eyed with their long hair bound back with ribboned braids. The one in front wore her curly red hair loose. She had gorgeous but intense green eyes and three deep scars crossing her face. Henry could see the left corner of her mouth drooped slightly, which was probably a cut nerve. His hands began to itch with his need to heal that. His mind flashed back to a memory of Ikehorn and feeling his need to heal Tish. He smiled at the memory.
“Are you going to stare at us like a simpleton, or are you going to let us in?” the redhead snapped.
Henry jolted out of his trip down memory lane. “Apologies,” he said hastily and opened the door. Hilda’s voice boomed out in laughter from the formal living room. Henry looked to the lead Valkyrie once more. “To the left.” She nodded stiffly as she began to enter.
He couldn’t stop himself. “Speak to Hilda about her healing.”
Green eyes locked on his and the fierceness in her gaze pushed at him to avert his gaze, but he didn’t. He saw a little confusion slip into her eyes, then she was past him. Next, he was facing the blonde twins, and their fierceness was only a shadow less than their redheaded friend. They leaned closer and closer until he could feel their breath on his face.
“Who are you to defy Talia?” the first whispered.
Henry sighed. He’d hoped by the time he’d grown up, he’d no longer have to deal with bullies, but these Valkyries were reminding him of all those episodes in the hallways of the schools he’d attended. Unlike then, he was no longer defenseless.
He engaged his personal force field, and the powerful charge instantly stunned the two who were standing much too close. He dropped the spell as he took their arms and marched them staggering into the living room. He pushed them into a loveseat just inside the entrance. He looked up and saw a room of silent Valkyrie staring at him in shock. “These two need a lesson on respecting personal space,” he growled and left the room.
Hilda’s delighted laughter followed him down the hall to the kitchen.