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Thor was standing stock still. He had felt the shift, the disconnection. It was like being hurled through the rainbow bridge, backward, powerless. His teeth were clenched and his arms bunched, his hands fists, and Mjolnir in one hand as if to ward off the bad old memories that rushed to his mind. But his eyes opened to see the place he was in and he knew this was not like the nightmares about being cast down and no longer being himself. He felt the reassuring heft of Mjolnir in his hand and the rush of power in his body and mind, and knew he was still himself. But where was he? And how had he gotten there?

Thor held out a hand casually, and a man in a uniform bumped into it, turned to angrily say something, and stopped, then looked up, and up, at Thor, staring. "Excuse me, good sir. Where am I? Is this Midgard?"

He hoped it was, because if it was not, he knew he was in very deep trouble. The next minute, fear faded and a grin fell into his face. Trouble could be fun, right?

Right.

The man stammered, shook his head, and fled before something odder and above his paygrade. Thor sighed but shrugged. Time to find some answers.

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"Synthetic? That's not... why?" His hand squeezed and almost crushed the contained before he slowly relented and left it atop the counter. He made a face, staring at it in disgust.

With a shudder, he turned back to her. "That is one strike against this world, at least."

"Spaceship." She corrected with a smile. If it was a world she would be able to feel more. Yuna laughed then her voice ringing like a bell.

"I'm sorry. I should have warned you. We might be able to get you real beer if we ask around. I know a lot of people have wanted it since arriving."

"Nay, you did right. I would not believe it did I not taste it." He made a face as he pushed the glass far away.

Then he turned his gaze on her. "Spaceship, yes. Perhaps I should have said this Realm, since I am quite sure we are nowhere near my time or place."

"Realm is a good way to put it." She sighed softly her head falling to the side. "I wish I could find a way to get you real beer."

Yuna thought about her memories of Thor and wished that he had remembered that. It would be fun to talk about again. She turned away from the counter though she downed her own drink not caring to much about the taste.

"What would make it better here?"

"Perhaps I will make some, if there is a way to do so." He knew, from his original life in Orange County, how to distill both moonshine and beer, and from his Asgardian self, how to create Ambrosia.

"Real alcohol, my friends, and not being trapped without reason or cause, and without choice." he spoke softly, but surely.

"I don't think there is reason or cause." Yuna frowned for a moment trying to think of what to else to say. The truth would have to do. She wasn't one to say anything other than that.

"If you make some I'd be interested to try it out."

"None? Damn the man, then. Perhaps I can find a way to convince him to relent." A way involving a hammer perhaps.

Thor smiled to her. "I'll remember that, and let you know." He nodded. "For now, then, where do we stay while on board this vessel?"

"That would be neat though I don't think that's going to happen. Many have tried."

Yuna's fingers lightly danced along her lips. "Well, you need to go through sickbay then there is here, the holodeck, you'll get a room and a few other places."

"Mayhap, but I cannot fail to try, or else I would fail to be me." Thor nodded, then smiled to her, eying her as they spoke.

"Then will you lead me to this sick bay? Why is it called so?"

He paused, then asked on. "What is a holodeck?"

"Sickbay because people go there when they are sick. They just scan you to make sure you don't have an viruses that can be spread to others with different immune systems." Yuna recited the knowledge as if she was reading it from a book. Mostly because she had read it from a book.

She smiled then. "Holodeck makes holograms. So you can see your home or any world really."

"Ahhh. But I am not sick." Then he shrugged. If it was what was done, then so be it. "I have never been sick that I know of."

"Ah! A reality simulation room! Excellent! I will be glad to see such a wonder constructed by Midgardian hands."

"It's for others on the ship more than you, though if your form earth I think you will be fine." She almost laughed at that before glanced towards the hall.

"I can lead you to a holodeck first if you want." Yuna was 85% sure that was okay.

"Nay. Twould be best to go to this sickbay first, and then to the holodeck, perhaps. For there we could explore such things." He smirked at her, eyes on hers as he rose and glanced around.

"Which way do we go?"

Her smile widened and she jumped from her seat. "This way." She was happy to show the way and had finally got used to the lay out of the ship after months of living here.

"It isn't so bad and usually quick."

Thor grinned as he followed her. She was a merry person and he was rather enjoying the introduction she was giving him to this place. "How long have you been cast into this ivory prison?"

He nodded to her words, thinking on the medical stylings of Doctor Banner, who seemed to work hard and silently, as contrasted by the medicine beds of home, where he would be chided for having to come in and be healed, and yet be healed just as quickly, and much more completely, than any Midgardian science could.

He wondered where this experience would fall.

"I don't really know for sure. Over half a year now." Unlike other places shes been time just flies by. She wasn't sure how but it past sometimes without her notice.

"I don't really like not having seasons or day and night." It was hard for her because she had felt so connected to the elements of each planet she visited. She could sense life and death; space was just empty.

Yuna leads him down the hall pointing out the few things she remembers about the ship as they go.

Thor followed, listening. "That is a long time to be trapped so. How do you keep sane?" He did not like the idea of being trapped, or being shut in, either. It seemed hard and like something that would pall quickly.

Her relating of things along the way earned his warmth and thanks.

"It seems you have learned this place well in that time."

Yuna laughed a littler nervously. "I don't know. I try and met people. Honestly even if this place is really boring it's fun to hear about others worlds."

She smiled brightly. It was nice to be able to help for a change.

Thor nodded as they walked. "I will have to find a way to bide my time. Perhaps opening a distillery." Without alcohol, the theater, or a job, life would be dull, here, he knew. "Are there any theaters on the ship?"

"Not that I know of but that doesn't mean there aren't any." Yuna smiled. "You know, before I was here I was practicing with a theater group. It's a lot harder than you might think." She had been able to do some rolls just fine but it took some effort when it came to emotions she just hadn't felt.

"I'm sure if there isn't some like that here you could start something." She'd go to plays.

Thor nodded, listening, then eyed the lift. "This is an elevator type thing?" It looked like the skylifts in Asgard, hidden things, for most used the stairs, but it did remind him of Midgardian elevators.

"Maybe we can see about that. I was an actor back home."

Yuna nodded holding out a hand as if inviting him to move ahead of her. "Oh? What sort of things did you do?" That was something she hadn't know before and she couldn't help but wonder if this Thor was different but then he liked beer as much as the Thor she knew.

She shook her head trying her best not to compare those she knew before now. It was confusing and she didn't want people to blend together. They were all a little different.

"Movies, plays, musicals, a few bit parts in television shows." Thor nodded, smiling softly. He stepped into the lift and eyed the buttons. "Which button is sickbay on?"

"This one." Yuna leaned forward pressing the button. She didn't really know half of the floors but she knew the few places she traveled.

After a moment of silence the lift began to move.

Thor eyed the button and then asked about the others, and listened when she explained them. "This ship has much of a simple kind of technology, does it not? It is much like Midgard when I last lived there. Technology that doesn't embrace the natural side of things, or magic, as most call it."

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