The Jotun's Daughter

Chapter 10

"I just need to get the formula and then-oh my! Kayla, you scared me!" Simmons jumped a little. I didn't respond. 

        "Are you ok?" She sounded so sweet and innocent with the lit in her light voice, and for a moment I was tempted to say that no, I wasn't ok. My father is the Norse god of mischief, for goodness sake.

        "Yeah, I just...got lost," I replied slowly. 

        "Oh, well, yes," she nodded assuredly. "It's quite a big place, isn't it?" She glanced down at my wrists and hands, which I couldn't seem to stop from shaking. 

        "You must be freezing," she said sympathetically. Frozen.

        "Come on, I know where we can get you a nice cup of coffee. Or hot chocolate, if you like," she offered.        

        "That...that would be great, thanks." I gave her a small smile. She was only trying to help, after all. I followed her through the labs and to a small kitchen, where she poured me a cup of coffee.

        "Here you go, dear. I hope that this will warm you up. Now, if you'll excuse me..." She motioned back to her lab project.

        "Oh-yeah. Go ahead." I waved my hand dismissively. She scurried off, leaving me there with the steaming cup. I involuntarily glanced around the room, looking for the surveillance cameras and security. It took a minute to realize what I was doing, and then I stopped. If the messengers coming after the scepter wanted to find me, I had a feeling that they would have done it by now. The igloo was cleverly concealed beneath natural weather conditions, and we were far enough North that I doubted they would bother to look here. They seemed to be able to track our location everywhere else though. I sat up suddenly. What if they were tracking us-had they put a bug on one of us to track where we went? But I doubted it. Even in the midst of the fighting I didn't think that M's guards would have had time to plant a tracking device. And even if they did-it was on the jet, which was guarded and secure millions of miles away. They wouldn't find us there, so they would go to the last spot that the jet stopped. I stood, then looked down at my cup and tensed. There has to be some way for me to get control of whatever I inherited from the frost giant.

        I set the frozen cup of coffee in the sink, and willed my hand's color to turn back to normal. I would need to watch my emotions, since it seemed that the ability to freeze things were linked to them some how. Most teenagers would go crazy if they realized that they had powers; but in reality, this only made my situation worse. I now understood what the men had been after, and what they had been referring to. They had known about Loki before I had. After asking Simmons which way was back to the center of the cavern, I made my way back to the balcony where we had entered. I was about to replay Coulson's walk through the maze of halls when I heard his voice below me, accompanied by large footsteps.

        "We don't know that to be certain."

        "It only takes one look at her to see the resemblance, Coulson." He was talking to Thor.

        "A DNA test is still needed to prove the truth, regardless of her appearance. She could easily be the daughter of someone else."

        "Have you told her your suspicions?"

        "If she didn't know before, she knows now. What I'm concerned about is the whereabouts of your brother."

        "If I could tell you, I would. However, this news is as alarming to me as it is to you. If my brother is alive....Odin banished his memory from Asgard a long time ago, Son of Coul. I do not think that he would be welcome back at my homeland."