Illusions | Loki & Jane

6. The Nine Realms

The next day Jane had been busy with doing research on John Mckenzie's theory. She hadn't found much except for an ancient Norse mythology about Thor. The man had said something about a connection between realms like branches of a tree, which was exactly explained like that in the stories as 'Yggdrasil'.
Great. Probably John was mentally disturbed, believing some children- or ghost-stories. Nevertheless, she liked to be open-minded and somehow liked this idea, so she decided to draw the nine realms and their strange names into her notebook: Midgard - or earth, Jotunheim - where the Frost Giants live, Asgard - home of Thor and Odin, Svartalfheim, Vanaheim, Nidavellir, Niflheim, Muspelheim and Alfheim.

She had been studying astronomy books and magazines again and found out that somehow it made sense with the realms. There were still stars or planets unidentified and it could be that they were these nine worlds, especially the tree-like shape made strangely enough sense, because those unknown stars were just located in a form of a tree. She wrote everything in her notebook and when Erik had asked her to send him what she had found so far on the circle in the ground, she had sent him per email all the theories she had been working on, including the most unlikely Thor-theory. Erik was a wonderful professor and tutor, but he was not always agreeing to her theories, especially when they weren't proven, so the woman already excepted him to traduce it. However as an answer came something more unexpected:

Please stop with the stories about Thor, that sounds delusional. Other than that, your theory about a portal is likable, yet I cannot believe in the Einstein-Rosen-Bridge, but the circle actually seems to be something special or important.
Darcy uploaded pictures on the internet from the symbols yesterday - couldn't stop her - and I received an email a few hours later from S.H.I.E.L.D. that we should leave it alone, they would do research on the markings, because they would have access to linguistics and better equipment. I didn't tell them where we found it, I said it is already gone, but they will find it or another eventually, so I'm writing you this to let it go, because whoever they are, I think these guys are quite important. But we will have better luck next time.

What? No! She would not give this research up. She was in the middle of finding something real and important, so she would not let this organization get in her way. She had asked John if she could position a trailer on his grounds, so that she didn't have to commute between New York and Jersey City. She had allowed it, thus that is what she did, she would not get scared by emails like that.

She had been living in a caravan for several days and had not seen John again, which somehow annoyed her. She still found him attractive and highly interesting and now she had even taken a liking to him. Just as she had caught herself thinking about him, somebody knocked the door of the trailer. Jane's heartbeat fastened, but when she opened the door it was only Darcy.

"Jane." She said reproachfully. "What are you doing here all by yourself?"

"I am working." The woman answered annoyed. "What do you think I am doing here?"

"Well if you stay here a little bit longer, you will get arrested, because your camping on somebodies territory."

"No it's fine, I have the permission to stay here."

"You mean from the dark, mystical, handsome and bossy person we met when we were here?"

"Yes."

"Oh Jane, I am proud of you. I really believed that you've lost your touch with men, but I see that you're still in the game!" She cheered raising her hand above her head, waiting for Jane to high-five, which she didn't.

"Darce, it's nothing like that, he was merely being nice."

"Oh really, then why are you blushing?" She asked teasingly.