Interstellar Ross

Epilogue

Planet: Isidore K78.942

I exited a fluorescent lit diner after a rather tense conversation with a woman I had so longed to encounter. I found my twin brother laughing and joking with Loki outside, his little daughter clinging to his legs.

"Stellar!" Loki reached out for a hug and I pushed him away.

"What did I tell you about not getting' killed?" I made a gun gesture with my hand and pressed it to his head.

"I love her." He answered simply.

"She's put a target on your back, and you'll die for it." I looked down to the girl. "Your daughter too."

"Enki's on my side." He redirected our attention to my brother.

Enki shrugged. "I think little Lovisa here is going to be powerful enough to protect not only herself, but her parents too." He bent down to make stupidly cute faces at her.

"You're both stupid." I remarked. I looked down as Lovisa left her father's legs to walk over to me, her eyes wide in wonder.

"I thought you'd be proud." Loki gathered Lovisa in his arms, bracing her on his hip.

"It's not that I don't think you are father material. It's that I think you chose the wrong girl to knock up." I gave Lovisa my baseball cap, adjusting it on her little head.

"I hear the Shapeshifter coming." Enki alerted.

"You're like a brother to me." I had practically raised the God myself. "Remember my warning when you need me to save your arse." I gave Lovisa one last look before Enki and I jumped a portal.

Fae Realms

Seelie Court

"Are you happy now?" With tears in his usually mischief green eyes he looked on the verge of knocking me out.

"No." I answered honestly.

"You knew this was going to happen."

I shook my head. "I assumed." I corrected. "From my eternity of experience."

"Don't talk to me ever again. Okay? Don't talk to any of us." He turned away, tears pouring down his face as he re-joined the gathered friends and family who stood over the erected plaque of a deceased Shapeshifter and wannabe Goddess.

"Do you think she's really dead?" Enki was always looking at another angle.

"I don't know." Her body hadn't been recovered, only the body of the God she had gone to battle against. "Her body shouldn't be missin'." I spoke quietly so only he could hear.

"Odin could have manifested something, I don't know." Enki shrugged as he wracked his brain for ideas.

"Wherever she is, it ain't Heaven." I sent him a long look that he returned.

We both left the ceremony early, leaving the Seelie Court to take the long road back home. Eager and nervous at what the future beheld and what our place could be within it.

At the end of the road I conjured a portal, the two of us stepping through together as the Goddess of Death and the God of Magic and the Watery Deep.