Skuld was openly dismissive of magic in all its’ forms, at least for most uses. However when it came to Ice Cream her entire outlook changed. To Skuld Ice Cream was the food of the gods! Especially for one certain sweet toothed Goddess, and although she could have easily invented a device that would have put Baskin & Robbins out of business, she felt it would be sacrilegious to do so.
So although the youngest of the Norns concentrated more on science then magic she wasn’t completely in the dark by any means and there was one particular spell she had been searching long and hard for. A major variation of the simple ‘Create Food and Drink’ spell called ‘Ice Cream Apocalypse’.
The simpler version ‘Summon Banana Split’ was unreliable (64%) and tended to summon bizarre banana like humanoids in sleep wear, and while they weren’t evil they weren’t very edible either. Urd usually took them away whenever one showed up and would have a rather large grin upon her return, some number of hours later. No one would question her on where they went or why she was smiling for fear she would tell them.
The slightly more successful but still buggy ‘Dessert Storm’ (78%) would either summon up a rain of ice cream toppings or create a small sand storm in the area it was cast. Skuld was forced to stop using it because Belldandy had a hard time cleaning up all the sand while she was pregnant with the twins.
Both were just side notes in the relatively obscure and tightly focused magical career of Skuld. Her true Holy Grail was ‘Ice Cream Apocalypse’, a spell of such awesome power that Skuld refused to divulge the details to anyone, including Belldandy.
The way she posed and announced that only she could withstand the awesome temptation to cast it pretty much reduced everyone else to laughing until they started hiccupping, so they stopped asking her abought it.
Finding it however proved to be tougher then one would expect it to be for a goddess with a direct connection to Yggdrasil. Apparently the spell had yet to be invented, but her senses were honed to the particular frequency of ‘Ice Cream Magic’ called Skuldmancy!
OK, only she called it that and Urd had a tendency to bang her head on nearby flat surfaces when Skuld called it that, which was partially why she did it. OK, it was mostly why she did it. If you can’t drive your older sister nuts what was the point of having one?
At any rate Skuld could sense whenever anyone cast a spell or invoked a power dealing with Ice cream, and right now her senses were tingling like a lightning rod before a major strike.
Glancing at Banpei, who was currently dissembled on her work table, she grabbed her cloak of swan feathers from the closet and ran for the front door. Urd was busy changing her nephew’s diapers in the living room so Skuld’s departure went unnoticed as she threw on her cloak and took wing in the form of a large white swan.
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