Sigyn: A Loki Love Story

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

He walked to the end of the aisle they stood in and yelled back to Sigyn.

"You have to clear your mind of everything the first time. It gets easier after that, but the first time is the hardest."

"My mind is clear."

"Close your eyes, and focus on the details of the room, everything you can remember."

That was easy for her, she could see things vividly with her eyes closed, and her memory was very precise. She recalled the ceiling of the room, a vast and intricate landscape view of Valhalla sprawled across it, then the farthest wall, which held books from top to bottom, so high a rolling ladder two stories tall leaned against it. The wall behind her was the entrance to the room, with the enormous and elaborately carved mahogany door she had just entered, and on the opposite side of the room was a wall of three door made of glass, that led out to a many columned terrace, that bordered a beautiful garden full of enchanted flowers and trees of many varieties from all the Nine Realms. Everything in the room had a golden glow because the floor here was designed to always look like the sky at dusk. The room smelled like cakes, pies, and all manner of desserts, a feature Odin had hoped would entice Thor to come into the library more often, and the chairs at the long, mahogany tables were a deep emerald green, Loki's color.

"I have everything I know about the room." She said, her eyes still closed, her face serious with concentration "What now?"

He told her the spell to cast and that she would need to stay very much aware of her surroundings in order to stay invisible in more than one spot.

"That is what I'm working on now: movement." He said, as he circled around the spot she had been standing in the moment before, "I cannot see you at all."

"Good, but," she sighed as she broke her concentration and reappeared "this is enough for today, I am hungry, and Rona will be looking for me at any moment."

"Will you stay and eat with us?"

"Of course."

They made their way from the library, through the halls of the palace and into the family dining room, right off of the kitchen where the staff busily prepared food and brought out dishes to set the table. Odin and Frigga sat at the two ends of the table, Odin with his head bent over a number of rather important looking scrolls, and Frigga sipping a cup of tea as she looked out of the gigantic window at her side. She smiled warmly at Loki and Sigyn as they entered the room.

"How familiar a sight this is, and yet it has been ages since we've all been together…Sigyn you look radiant."

"As do you, your highness."

She bowed deeply to the Queen, who looked amused and lifted her chin so their eyes could meet.

"So formal for one who I regard as the closest thing I have to a daughter. We both do, do we not my King….Odin? Odin!"

He looked up suddenly and met his wife's eyes with a look of confusion, and then he realized Loki and Sigyn's presence and smiled.

"The Goddess has graced me with her presence at breakfast, even though she is undoubtedly busy preparing for her wedding!" Sigyn grinned like a little girl and took to one knee before the King of Asgard. He took her hands and helped her stand up properly. "My Goddaughter must kneel to no one, not even the king."

"Your Goddaughter does not kneel often, only in the presence of those who are truly worthy of it." She remarked, and Odin nodded, very proud indeed of the woman she had become "I am sorry I have not come more often lately, but it seems my time is no longer my own."