Silver Soul
Prologue
From the time Leticia Stark was born, she had strange dreams. Within these dreams she saw a hulking blond-man wielding a hammer, a slim ebony-haired man with a snake, three men of varying descriptions wearing thick shimmering armour with a dark-haired, armour-clad woman and a male and female both wearing crowns. In these dreams, they were always performing a variety of actions, but the worst were the ones where they were crying out for her, begging for her to come to them; where the blond-haired could be seen staring longingly at the moon and shimmering stars. These particular dreams had her wrenching from her bed sobbing and taking solace in her big brother's bed until the light came.
From the time Leticia Stark could draw, these people moved from her dreams onto her paper and she could be often seen drawing steep cliffs, flowing waterfalls and shimmering golden buildings along with what her father called, her 'imaginary friends'. Each time he called them this, she went to bed that night whispering soothingly that she knew they were real, that she believed in them. As the years past, these pictures grew from childish sketches to startlingly detailed depictions of a place she called 'Asgard' and creatures that she spoke of with so much conviction that her brother couldn't not believe in. These creatures included the bilge snipe; a repulsive beast with scales and giant antlers that Leticia surprised Tony with her hatred of and the detail to which she could describe the sheen of its scales. However much disbelief she faced and no matter how much she grew and changed, she never stopped believing in this world and the people she had always dreamed of.
However, these dreams were not the only thing Leticia Stark possessed from the day she was born. Her parents' hearts had almost leapt from their chests when they saw the silver emblem etched into her tiny right wrist. Further research led them to discover that it was a rune of some description and no matter how often they scrubbed at it; it showed no sign of fading. This and several unexplainable events with her at the centre, led Maria and Howard Stark to keep their distance from their youngest child and so Leticia received most of the love in her first years from her elder brother and this, unfortunately set the precedent for the next twenty or so years of her life. So, when Maria and Howard Stark died in a car crash when she was four, it was only natural for her then twenty-one year old brother to take over her upbringing and become both brother and father to a little girl who had already seen him this way from the days where he whispered sweet words as she cried at night.
As it was, Anthony Stark was the only one who believed in what his father had dismissed as childish fairy tales. From her birth on his seventeenth birthday, he had viewed her as a precious gift that he must protect under any circumstances and at the sight of her rejection at the hands of their parents, vowed to find the answer to the silver rune on her wrist and to never treat her as their parents had done. So, in an effort to protect her, he bought her, her first glove embroidered with red, gold and silver vines for her fifth birthday. From then on, unless alone with Tony or at home at night, she never removed it or it's successors as she had promised Tony she wouldn't until the day they found the answer.
This is where our story begins, twenty years later with a brother and sister duo on the verge of the answers they had been searching for, a portal activating in a remote research facility and a war on the horizon.