Nodding, Elena gave a short laugh. "I'd have to agree with you. These things are...horrid. So I might actually take you up on the offer. I don't know why we're expected to stomach them except for maybe the Admin's sick amusement."

Returning the friendly smile with one of her own, Elena can't help the feeling that she's seen him before. It wasn't so much the way in which he spoke, which in and of itself was unusual and thus unique, but that there was something ethereal about his entire presence.

"I may not be I-luve-a-tar's - Odin's beard, that's hard to say, I'm sorry if I pronounced it wrong - I may not be one of his children, but I'd be happy to have the same gift. I'd take sweltering heat over the cold."

And a heartbeat later.

"By the way...you seem a little familiar. Have we met before?"