My greatest hero

chapter 31

Loki sat outside reading the same book he had been reading when Eira first broke into the palace, he realized he never got around to finishing it.
"Loki" he heard Eira call his name
"I don't think I'll ever be able to finish this" he said to himself closing the book. He turned around and saw Eira standing in the door leading to the balcony, she wasn't smiling, she didn't seem happy, she seemed scared.
"Is everything okay?" Loki asked her
"I don't know. Do you have a minute, I need to talk to you" she said "Yes, of course" he said, making room for her to sit down.
"What's on your mind?" He asked "Well, you said you would wait for a time when I could tell you about my sister. Well I want to talk about it, we're getting married tomorrow and I should be able to talk to you." she said with a shaky voice. He took her hand.
"It's alright, go ahead" he said gently.
"Well, I told you before that my sister left me when I was younger. well, the time she she spent with me was pretty dark. She was a very wicked person, she hated me from the time I was born, she hurt me to express her anger, and when that didn't satisfy her, she hurt others" tears started To fill her eyes and fall down her face. "But she was very smart, she was clever, she always made it look like I was the one who hurt people. I told you that she left me, what really happened is that she chased me away, I was living a nightmare and couldn't stand to stay with her any more. But my whole life I was afraid of her, of the things she could do, she always had control, and I always feared her. I said that I was the only one who lived in that village, it's because when I moved there the people knew who I was, she had been there and had hurt people, she's destroyed so many lives it's impossible to count. So when I went to that village, they all knew who my sister was and they all thought she was going to be right behind me, so they all left, leaving me alone.

they would rather uproot their lives than chance meeting her. I can't tell you every individual thing she's done, but She left scars in my life, and they will never disappear" she told him, she started breathing harder, "I've been trying not to think about her, I've tried to block her out of my mind, but I still see her, in my nightmares, she's there, she haunts my life even now, and sometimes, even since I've been living here, I wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and the room is covered in ice, because she still lingers in my mind" he realize that tears had formed in his eyes while listening to her. "How could you live like that? How did you never tell anyone? How Did you walk around with that burden on your shoulders?" He asked her staring into her eyes. she finally let out all the tears she had been holding in. he put his arms around her and let her cry into him.
" you're not alone anymore, Eira, I'll always be by your side, from now on, I'll be with you. I love you" he told her holding her close to him. She stopped crying and closed her eyes. "I've never been love before" she said into his shoulder.
"Well than I feel greatly privileged to be the first" he told her looking into her eyes and wiping away her tears.