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IT WAS DAWN WHEN EVA HEARD A KNOCK AT HER DOOR.
It wasn't Dagny - Eva was sure of it. Lately, she had been waking up earlier, but this was much too early for Dagny to come.
If she was to come anymore, that is. After she failed the rebellion the night before, Eva hadn't seen Dagny before she fell asleep. A new lady had been sent to her, but Eva sent her away with fury in her eyes, demanding that if it wasn't Dagny, it would be no one.
(That poor lady. Eva felt kinda bad for yelling at her.)
The knocking came once again, and Eva pulled herself from her bed, and glanced cautiously at the mirror, making sure she didn't look ill. She felt ill. She had a restless night.
Eva pulled open the door, and nearly closed it the second she caught sight of the person; but Loki put his hand out, stopping her attempt.
"Eva."
"I was sleeping."
"Barely," Loki noted, observing the dark bags gathering under her eyes, and the sagging of her shoulders.
Eva studied him for a moment. "I'm going back to bed," she told him, attempting to shut the door again.
Loki stopped her.
"Come with me."
Eva was half asleep, agitated, and annoyed. "What?"
"Come with me," Loki repeated. "I have something you need to see."
Eva wanted to argue more, really, but she wasn't really up for it. She was half-asleep and not in the mood to argue with the most impossible person in the world.
"Fine," she conceded, slipping out of her bedroom.
Loki nodded at her and then began walking.
It wasn't a long walk, but it felt like an eternity. The castle was still asleep, no servants bustling, and no battling Einherjar in the fields. And Eva's early morning daze was being replaced by her increasing anger with the man at her side.
Loki led her beyond the training grounds, beyond the fields and meadows; he led her through a small path that traveled through the forest, and up to a rocky hill that led to a rockier small mountain, with a plateau of land.
At the end of the plateau was a waterfall, at a height taller than the castle itself.
"The Ground of the Valkyrie," Eva identified, her mind racing back to the history books she had been skimming for the last few days. "It's where they trained and prepared for battle."
Loki's hands clasped behind his back and nodded.
Eva's eyes flickered over the land again, this time, with a softer expression than she had offered to Lokie.
