GENESIS - THE BEGINNING. Book 1

CHAPTER 6 ... Asgard, Gladsheim - The Hall of Thrones

 "You are here my fellow Aesir," Odin said as he gazed at each of the gathered High Kings. "Because once again my faith and trust has been misplaced."

"And the truth and nothing but the truth." The only woman amongst them said.

Odin turned to her. "Do not let me regret another, woman. Having you removed from our presence would be much simpler and effortless." He glared at Queen Freya who uncharacteristically was chewing on a thumbnail. The only indication of the turmoil she felt inside her breast.

Odin turned once again to the seated 'Higher Aesir' "Loki as we have all come to know, has escaped his imprisonment and ..."

"We should have killed the bastard." Thor grumbled, as he tapped Mjollnir's* plain leather wrapped handle.

"Unfortunately," Odin sighed. "The Norn's* decreed otherwise. We ... I, could not well go against their commands. Now, the Trickster has begun to medal in the affairs of Midgard and is assisting the humans in some endeavor or other."

"What.?" Vali shouted as he leaped from his throne in anger. He flicked his untied, shoulder length black hair every so often behind the ears. "How is this possible? We have carefully deleted any knowledge of us from the minds of the human's eons ago. That is ... if the time difference you explained last week to us is still relevant?"

Odin nodded.

"Then how? And what about the immutable decree that none could approach the humans unless they are worshipped?" an idea penetrated his mind, "Was there a loop hole?" he stared at Odin with an uplifted eyebrow. All the High Kings stared inquiringly at their King. This was something none of them had thought to question.

"None that I could determine and the vexing part in all this," said Odin. "For centuries we each used the humans to fight our wars. None of us, myself included, could break this edict. Loki on the other hand did not partake of these wars as he preferred to work behind the scenes."

"Could it be that he has somehow discovered a way to by-pass this decree?" asked Vali.

"Clearly he has," Queen Freya said. "The way I see it gentlemen, is not how he did it but how are we going to stop him?"

"Freya is correct and let's not take this lightly." Odin said, "For the Trickster is planning for the first time ever to be involved in human affairs and to bring about chaos. Chaos I must add, that will inadvertently bring about Ragnarök."

"Kill him and be done with it." rumbled Thor. "I will do it and hang the Norns and their wishes."

"May I say something?" Queen Freya asked, standing up from the throne that was hastily brought and inserted amongst the others before the assembly began. "Simply put, I agree with Thor. Should Loki die, all our problems would disappear as mist before the sun. But, I have a suggestion. As we all know, there is a new prophesy and unfortunately, it is not complete. It is a most uncommon prophesy and does not make much sense but is tantamount to suicide should we ignore it. It goes like this:

In the days of time and beyond time,

Midgard shall declare war on Middle Earth beyond time

And the metal Einherjar shall bring death to them both and then be one with the one.

The new god shall be witness to all and Ragnarök shall be,

When Aesir intercedes.

The new god shall...

The gods listened to her as she recited the prophesy.