Loki's Lily

The Beginning

I run for all my legs will carry me. I can hear the guards on my heels as I dodge the branches of the dark forest. My breath comes hot in my lungs, searing its way into my body until I feel I would catch fire. The clanging of the guard's armor begins to grow more distant, but I know they will not give up until they find me. My only hope is my sister. I continue to push until I come to the hidden wall to the palace. My witches' eyes seeing the slight opening that leads into the bowels of the castle. Slipping inside I stop for a moment to catch my breath before sneaking my way into the passages. After what feels like days I emerge into Frigga's room.

"Sister!" she cries "I've been looking everywhere for you, I couldn't see you in my mind and I feared the worst, have you heard?"

I go to her bedside table and gulp down the water there before turning to face her, "I have, and I know he did it. He was always so ambitious. But I'm not here to beg for his life or the life of his sons, there is another that needs your help more." I clutch my belly and pull my gown tighter to me so she can see the slight bump just beginning to form. I no longer worried about my husband; his fate was sealed. I'd already watched my stepchildren be condemned to death to punish their father and I couldn't bear to lose the innocent life inside me to Odin's wrath.

"Oh, I see..." she sits at her desk and peers at me with tears in her eyes. I knew Frigga would help me. She understood how extreme her husband could be and while she couldn't openly contradict him, she could help me work around him. His edict to have all my husband's children executed may or may not apply to the child that grew within me. I just couldn't take the chance that it did.

The sisters disguised Freya's pregnancy with their witchcraft for many years, hoping to save the fate of the child from the sins of the Father. He who betrayed Odin to the frost giants during the war, by supplying them with weapons that almost brought ruin to Asgard and the other realms.

When Iwaldi was discovered, he was imprisoned with a death sentence hanging over him and his sons. One by one each son was put to death before his eyes. His wife, Freya, watched as her stepchildren were condemned over and over, herself a pariah with only Frigga as protection from the vipers at court and the Allfather himself. After many years she watched as her husband was the last to be beheaded under the executioner's ax. Part of her relieved that now Odin may move on to other pursuits and forget her. The other still worried for the life in her womb, ready to be born for some time now, the magic weakening.

"It is time sister, but I have a plan to keep the child from Odin's eyes until he will no longer remember. he's so preoccupied with both the boys now anyway; we should be able to return her home as soon as he has found a new war to fight." Frigga explained to Freya that they would secret the child to Midgard, Heimdall had been watching and found a place secluded from the worst of the beasts that roamed the young realm.

A man there had begun his search to understand his world. He would be keen to help a magical child that could open his eyes to the secrets the universe held. The baby would be safe with him. In exchange for safekeeping of the child he was given an Amulet that would help him see through time, through any disguises and to warn him of evil intentions. It's dual purpose to better help him protect the baby.

Freya cried as she placed her daughter in the Midgardians arms, "I love you Sigyn, you will return, and we will be reunited. Promise to protect her with your life" she cried desperately at the man who nodded. He wore the amulet they had given him and walked away with the child, wrapping her in furs to protect her from the chill mountain air.

The sisters returned to Asgard where Frigga spelled Freya into forgetting, to spare her any more pain and to keep her from returning to soon to reclaim her daughter. Her only conspirator, Heimdall, was sworn to secrecy. Odin however decided to further warn any traitors of Asgard of what lie in store for them should they betray him and ordered Freya's death as well, his vengeance not complete until he had wiped the entire line from Asgard.