Falling through the universe could take a very long time. Loki has been falling for about 4 days or 4 weeks or 4 months. He wasn't sure. But falling for that long made him remember home. How he would eat his special chocolate (15% edible star dust- cheap but fantastic) and how his (ex) father taught him everything he knew. How he was betrayed. How he was lied to. How they promised that he would be a king his whole life only to be snatched away from him.

He would rather die.

He wasn't sure if anyone has ever discovered the edge of the universe and what it's like and he wasn't sure when he would stop falling until he saw Asgard again.

First he saw a worm hole. It was a size of a football field and he fell right into it. Then he started falling again. After a few hours, he twisted and looked at the worm hole he fell into. It was now a purple star among the cluster of stars in the universe. He twisted and faced down. He was hurtling to a star.

He thought it was the end and he stared at the white star in front of him. He was going to burn and he was going to die and there would be nothing that he could do about it. The great God of Mischief- a great fraud- died from a puny star.

Wait.

No, it wasn't a star. It was a place. IT had water and buildings and everything. It had architecture like back at home (or is Asgard still his home?). Actually, it had architecture a lot like back at home. In fact, as he was getting closer and closer, it looked amazingly like Asgard, to the last detail.

Loki thought he fell through the whole universe already but that wasn't really possible. This was some sort of second Asgard- a complete replica.

Second Asgard's sun was high in it's sky and it was coming in fast and Loki didn't think he would survive the fall. He was going to land on water but his clothes were probably too heavy to keep him afloat. When he started taking off his outer clothes it was already too late. He managed to cover his face in his arms when he hit the water.

The metal on his clothes absorbed the impact but his hands felt like they were slapped by a car moving at 560 miles per hour. It immediately went numb and Loki felt weakness. He has fallen for a long time without rest or food or sleep and it has finally taken a toll on him. He tried to pull himself up but he couldn't . He looked up.

What's the point of living now anyway? He's rejected. What he was meant to do his whole life was stripped away from him so there's no purpose anymore. What's an archer without a target?

He closed his eyes and breathed in. Floating here, he might discover peace. Eternal peace. He wonder where Gods go when they die?

Suddenly, he felt a soft hand wrap around his and he felt himself pulled out of the water. He coughed and sputtered out some water.

"Oh Odin. Um, hi." He heard a voice.

Loki looked up and his eyes nearly popped. Above him was him. Or her. It was a girl version of him, anyway.

It was him with only gentler features. She had sharper eyebrows, sharper chin, high cheekbones, wavy hair that reaches centimeters below her shoulders and curls up at the end, and green eyes way brighter than his. She wore a black dress that reaches inches above her knees with green hems. She wore boots just like his and a cape like his too.

"Hello." She waved at him with a hint of British. "Want some chocolate? It's 15% edible stardust. Cheap but fantastic."

He stared at her open hand. Right there was a clump of his half melted most favorite chocolate in the whole universe.

"Layka " She said as Loki grabbed the clump and gobbled it down. "But of course you know that. Or do you?"

"You are a princess." Loki said. "Of Asgard."

"Along with Lady Thore, yes." She nodded. Her personality was fairly far from Loki's. "You're lucky I decided to take my boat out with a spin or else you could have drowned."

"Your boat, yes." Loki nodded, looking around at the small wooden boat they were in. He couldn't believe it. He's read this in his books. Universes with the same time flows. Whatever happens in one universe happens in the other.

"Soooo." Layka said "You're a traveler?"

"I am a prince."

"Well then your majesty, let's take you to the castle, shall we?" She raised one of her eyebrows and waved her hand over the boat. It slowly began moving by itself and it slowly and gracefully made it's way to shore.

They were quiet for a while. Layka admired the view while Loki sat thinking. "Why are you still here?" Loki asked.

"Why should I not?" Layka asked, placing her chin on her hands.

"After all that you have been through."

"I haven't been through anything."

Loki looked up at her "What?"

"yeah." Layka said, shrugging. "Nothing's going on in my life right now. The biggest next thing is Lady Thore's coronation but that's not even mine." She laughed but Loki couldn't. He was making sense of everything.

That's strange. The universe flow at the same time. They ride the same time line but they're not probably catched up to each other. Maybe time here was slower than time in the other Asgard.

Oh. Loki thought. So it hasn't happened to her yet.

He stared at Layka sadly- Layka who was relaxing and admiring every little thing that passes the water and staring at the fishes with bright green eyes.

Oh. Loki gulped. The tragedy hasn't happened yet. She still doesn't know.