>
>There is a third possibility, which is that they were killed as
>monsters by the witches and supernatural allies of ages past. "No
>gods, no masters" and all that. At that point, Lævatein and Spear
>the Gungnir take on something of a flavor of... hunting trophies.
>
>Remilia is smart enough for that thought to have occurred to her, but
>I doubt she's comfortable looking directly at it. It would be at odds
>with her mental record of her father (though it would have happened
>long, long before she was born). I'm not even saying it's definitely
>what happened. But... it could be.
>

In my head, this becomes:

"Where were you?" Count Victor Scarlet asked, "Grendel nearly finished us all."

Victor's errant ally displayed the weapons of the Norse gods. "Taking care of problems."

"They were to be left alone. I made my position clear on that."

"And I disagreed with you. Now it's no longer up for deb-HUURK!"

Peter Eng
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