[This statement is so patently ridiculous, Lenneth's silence is almost palpable stone and ice as she regards him. This boy, Baldr? It beggars belief.]

[No, she reminds herself. Many others wear the mantle of gods they are not here, just as she herself has been taken from her pantheon and placed it another. Or is acting in both capacities, since she remains the Valkyrie.]

[After a minute that may be very uncomfortable for him, she at last relaxes slightly, the sword in her hand lowering by a matter of inches.]

I am -- I was the active Valkyrie. [Sadness and anger slip through her words, muted but present.] I suppose Hrist has the duty now... I assume by calling us 'Norse' you are not from the Asgard or Midgard I know, and have taken on that name as I have been assigned one here as well?

[The gods of Valkyrie Profile are not the Norse gods, after all. The names may be the same, but little else. Lenneth, of course, has no idea.]