Chapter 2
A/N I do not own Marvel or anything related to it
Sigyn finally made it back to the palace and her main concern shifted to making back to her room without the maids, or worse, her mother seeing her or realizing she had been gone. The palace was large but rather archaic looking compared to the other palaces in the rest of the realms, let alone Asgard. The palace had been described as looking prettier on the inside than on the outside. The building was a grey stone, so old it was growing vines and moss. But none the less, it was home to her. She walked around the palace to the window of her room. It was moments like this where she was grateful that her room was on the first floor of the palace, allowing for not only an easy exit, but for a quick return as well. She knew it would be another ten minutes before the maid even bothered to come and try to wake her so that gave some relief to her situation.
Sigyn made her way to the nightstand where there was a cloth, a basin, and a pitcher for water. She worked quickly, using the cloth to clean the dirt off her knees and nightgown, thinking about the recent events that took place. She blushed, I can't believe a prince of Asgard saw me like that. Sigyn was still mildly embarrassed, but somehow she felt relieved. She remembered that her mother was planning on trying to marry her off to one of these men and after seeing her like that, prince Loki wouldn't want her. Now Sigyn was secretly hoping the prince had told his brothers; maybe she wouldn't have to marry any of them.
Sigyn finished scrubbing the dirt off of herself and dumped the soiled water out the window and onto the plants below and quickly got back into bed and pretended to be asleep, smiling that she had managed to get away with leaving the palace again.
-Loki POV-
Loki had never expected he'd see such a spectacle when he decided to stray off for a walk that morning. He, his father, and two brothers had just arrived in Vanaheim and because the king Norjd had not been expecting them for another few hours, they decided to stop and rest. Loki decided to stray off that morning because his brothers Thor and Balder had been discussing Asgardian battle tactics with their father ever since they arrived and frankly he was getting quite tired of it. It wasn't that he didn't appreciate how war was fought and how those before him had defended the people of Asgard, it was simply because that was all they talked about. He had always prefered magic to brute force when it came to battle. Magic was deceiving, a silent killer, not messy and loud like how most of Asgard fought. His proclivity for magic was why he pondered on the events of this morning. Vanir people, let alone women, did not practice magic, How could the princess of vanaheim of all people perform levitation like that? Was that all she could do? but what was disturbing him most was her eyes.
When the princess stopped her magic to look at him her eyes changed drastically. They were a fiery gold color but then turned to a steel blue. Performing regular magic does not cause any physical changes to the users body. He pondered as he found his way back where his family was.
They were exactly as he left them, discussing the same subject, only it seemed like there had been a disagreement as there was now a large hole in the ground with thor's hammer mjolnir sitting in the middle of it. "Witless oaf" Loki said under his breath."Brother! Where have you been? Thor called out. "I just went to look around" Loki said as he made his way to where Thor was sitting and joined them. "Find anything interesting out there?" Thor asked, "Any fine Vanir maidens?" Thor lightly punched Loki's shoulder in a jest. Loki chuckled slightly, "No, but I did find something interesting." "Oh really" Said thor, "What?" Loki ignored the question and turned towards Odin. "Father" Loki started, "The Vanir people are magicless, correct?" Odin raised an eyebrow at the question "No" he said, "But the Vanir people have been forbidden to practice magic for over a thousand years now". "Why exactly?" Loki asked. " Before you and your brothers were born the Vanir people were famous for their magic and had thousands of books,artifacts, and scrolls documenting their magical power" Odin Explained. "One item they had, was the force stone, it was said to be the most powerful magic artifact in Vanaheim and also the most dangerous. It was kept in a separate room in the palace to keep it out of the wrong hands." Loki sat listening to Odin's story intently, thoughts still dawning on what he saw that morning "But it got in the wrong hands?" Thor said, also listening to his father's story. "Precisely" Odin said nodding at his son, "A man in the village desperately wanted to enhance his own magic, so he snuck into the palace and stole the force stone. He caused much damage to Vanaheim almost causing all out war between the realms, but the Vanir army defeated the man and he was put to death. After the incident, the king ordered the stone be locked away, and to avoid a similar event, he outlawed the practice of magic. The king came to the conclusion that without magic nobody would find use of the stone to magnify their own magic, and so with the stone he locked up all accounts of Vanir magic forever."
Loki wasn't quite sure what to say about what he heard, It just didn't add up to him. How could this girl, let alone the princess, know magic? She'd always be under a watchful eye, so she couldn't have just gone and stolen the accounts and learned for herself. Loki pondered on these thoughts trying to make sense of it all until Odin spoke again "Come my sons" He said, "The King is expecting us" And there they set off for the palace.