Len, as her friends called her, was sitting on her porch looking the sky full of stars. She had a long hair that went until her bottom. Suddenly she saw something falling from the sky. The place where it had fallen was a few kilometers from her place. She got into the car and drove to the fallen thing.

When she arrived she saw a man lying on the ground wearing an armor. But her face showed no surprise. A flicker of recognition shone in her eyes.

She picked up the man with a bit of effort. He was very tall but she was taller than the regular women. She was very fit, she was pure fiber but she had womanly curves too. She was in a good physical shape because her job required it this made easier for her carrying the heavy man to the car. She drove home and laid him in the sofa.

He was hurt. Small patches of blood could be seen. She quickly undressed him and assessed the damage. He had some cuts in his chest and back some of which were deep. He had a deep cut in his thing too. He had scratches all over his body.

He had cuts in his arms but none were too deep. His right hand was more damaged than the left one. The wounds seemed to have been inflicted as he was holding on something for his dear life.

She cleaned all his cuts and stitched the ones which required it. She looked at him: he was tall and very fit. He had a black shinning hair. He seemed to have a royal air around him.

You could say she was rich. She didn't need to work to live. In her job she didn't work all the days. She only worked a two or three months a year.

She had just finished her work and until a few months she wouldn't have to work again.

The sleeping man didn't wake until a week later. Len saw the man twitching as if trying to wake up and came over him.

The green eyes that had been hiden behind his eyelids where suddenly revealed. The first thing Loki saw was a pair of blue eyes looking at him.

Len looked into Loki's eyes with interest. Loki was trying to evaluate the human, if she as dangerous or if he could use her.

"How do you feel?" asked Len. Loki tried to talk but no words could escape from his mouth.

"Nod if you are hungry" Loki nodded slowly trying to check if it was ok to move.

"Alright, is chicken ok?" Loki nodded again but this time a little more quickly.

She started cooking their food right away.

Loki sat on the sofa pondering why this stranger was taking care of him. She didn't know him, who he was, who he used to be, where he used to live.

Len continued cooking their food leaving the man she had taken in to his thoughts.

Loki fell asleep. He woke up with the smell of the cooked chicken

Len made her way to him.

"You are awake now. The dinner is ready"

Loki tried to stand up but his legs wobbled and had to sit down. Also the white sheet that had been been covering his lower half had fallen to the ground leaving him completely naked.

After she had cleaned him up she didn't put him any clothes because they might irritate his wounds.

Loki quickly grabbed the sheed and covered himself.

"C'mon you don't have anything that I haven't seen" even the statement wasn't all true if you took into account the size. "I've undressed you to heal you after I brought you home"

Len didn't shy in front of a naked man. She worked healing so she had seen many nude men.

Seeing the man embarrasment she quickly run to her room and picked up the biggest sports shorts she owned.

They looked a bit ridiculous on Loki. She promised him that she would buy some clothes next time she went shopping. They still had to dine.

"Let me help you" Loki accepted her help after his failed attempt. She put his arm around her shoulders and her arm around his waist. She helped him to stand and go to the kitchen table where she had set the food.

They ate in silence. Loki could not talk and Len didn't know what to say.

She went to bring the dessert but she also brought a notebook and a pen.

"I should present myself. Everyone knows me by Len. What's your name?"

Loki wrote his name in the notebook

"Loki strange name isn't it?"

He had written Loki Odinson, the last word had been crossed out and under it he had scribbled Laufeyson.

"You have an unusual name, comes from the Nordic mythology doesn't it?"

Loki nodded. He didn't know what this mythology was about but he supposed it could be.

She went into one room and reappeared with a book in her hand

She showed him the page where Loki appeared.

Loki quickly wrote if she would lend him the book, she agreed.

"I think we should change your name it doesn't seem from here but it can wait until you have your voice back."

They sat on the sofa and spent the afternoon watching the TV.

Loki seemed fascinated by it.

After a light supper, Len showed him his room and left.

Loki alone in his room tried to perform a little bit of magic. All he could do was to move a few centimeters a book. He still was too weak to perform magic

It wasn't until a week later when he could talk again. He had spent that week reading, the book she had lend him he had finished it in a day, he had quickly devored a lot of books. By the end of the week he had almost read the entire library.

He had watched a lot of TV. He couldn't belive how some humans could be so stupid.

He discovered a piano. Some afternoons Len and Loki sat on the bench and she taught him how to play.

He was now able to walk without help

"Len" Loki croaked. He was seated on the sofa but the TV was switched off while Len was in the kitchen brewing a coffee.

Loki had discovered that she always had a coffee everyday not more and if she didn't have it she would become very cranky.

He had also roamed around the house while she was shopping (she had bought him some sportive clothes and a pair of jeans). Now he knew the house like the back of his hand.

It had two levels. In the first floor there was a bathroom, the kitchen, the living room and the library. On the second floor there was four bedrooms, a music room although the piano was in the living room but in that room there was all the scores she had and the other instruments she could play and an office.

When she heard her name she quickly turned her head, left all she had been doing and rushed to Loki.

She sat on her knees in front of him while he was seated on the sofa. He was wearing the green T-shirt and the jeans she had bought. She had promised him that although the clothes she had bought him would suffice for now, she would take him to shop for clothes as soon as she could so he could choose the clothes he prefered

"You can talk"

"Yea" It had been a torture not being able to talk for him who was known for his silver tongue.

Now he could question her about her hospitality. She didn't know who he was.

But first he had to get some information about this world. She had said that his name wouldn't work so he could obviously steal an identity but if she was willing to give him one.

"I.. change …my name" he couldn't speak very well yet he had trouble talking and his throat hurt.

They discussed a lot of names but none of them seemed to fit him: Johnny, Michael, Richard, Tim,…

"How about Zack?"

"No"

"And Eric?"

Loki didn't love the name but it was the best he had heard so he accepted

"Ok, now we need a surname"

Now they were too tired to argue for one so they opened the yellow pages in a random page and where the finger pointed they took the surname: Smith.

Loki opened his mouth to ask her reasons for her generosity but all he could make were raspy sounds. Len put her finger on his lips leaving him stunned.

"Don't talk. We can't have you talking too much you have just recovered your voice"

She went to the kitchen again and brought back a brewage to soothe his sore throat.

The next day he asked her to bring him with her. He still couldn't talk very much and could not use magic. He decided he would use her until he was completely recovered.

They went together to get some groceries. After they put them in the car, Loki sat on the copilot seat.

"It's a wonderful day, let's take a walk"

They walked around the park. When they were bored they sat on a bench in front of a lake.

"Why did you take me in?" blurted out Loki

"I could not leave you lying there. I suppose my medical instincts took over"

"Medical instincts?"

"Yeah I have a medical training"

"What's your job?" Loki was intrigued about what was her job. In his previous journeys to Midgard, he didn't call earth anymore by that name since he read the book and deduced that nobody called it Midgard, he saw humans having all kind of professions.

"I heal the ones who had been hurt in the battlefield while the fight is taking place, I mean; I'm with them in the battlefield to cure them if it's necessary."

"From there comes you fitness and medical training"

"Yeah"

It was almost dark when they decided to go back home.

They put the groceries in their respective places.

Loki observed her as she cooked. She was more than the eye met thought Loki.

Not everyone would have taken in a man lying on the ground wearing a strange attire, medical training or not.

Speaking of which were was it?

What do you think?