After the breakfast, the two said their good byes and left. They decided to walk, considering Loki's aversion to cars. The air was crisp and the sky was clear. Loki made sure to crunch leaves as he walked, much to Mayura's amusement. They chatted lightly and the tension that existed before with Mayura trying to see adult Loki the same as child Loki was slowly easing. At times she would miss the young kid but she definitely preferred the adult. Every so often, her heart would flitter in the same way it did when she was around the young Loki, as she saw him do the same things the child would do.

Around another corner and they were at a small house. Loki led Mayura up to the door, where he knocked in three short precise knocks. A young woman with long dark hair answered the door.

"Yo! Verdandi!" Loki grinned at her look of confusion as he invited himself and Mayura in. Verdandi stood there gaping at the two. "You're just the Norn I want to see."

"Loki, what are you doing here? Hello Mayura, how are you?" Mayura bowed slightly and smiled at Verdandi.

"We have a mystery that needs solving!" He laughed and Mayura giggled. "Mayura here seems to know, perfectly, a song that Sigyn used to sing only for me. We were wondering if you knew anything about this. She can't get it out of her head." Verdandi sat down and pondered the pair. There was silence as she thought that lasted several minutes. Loki looked at Mayura and shrugged.

"All I can think of is that it takes about 100 years for a god to be reincarnated naturally into the human world. This is all the help I have for you." Loki's smile froze on his face and slowly faded away. His heart did a jump and he stared at Mayura, for the first time seeing her as more than just a high school girl who loves mysteries who he had taken an unusual liking to recently. He was still in shock as Verdandi ushered them out of the house saying "it was too dangerous for a non-Norn to be".

This time it was Mayura's turn to take Loki to a small shop and treat him. So, she brought him to her favorite food stall and bought him lunch. They walked to the park where she had first met him as an adult and they enjoyed their lunch. The meal was quiet and consisted mostly of the two of them within their own thoughts. Loki thinking about the possibility of Mayura being Sigyn and Mayura thinking of how she wished she could be with Loki. Both sighed at the same time, as their hopes seemed to be impossible. How could he ever like her as much as she liked him? He had a wife! Granted she disappeared over 100 years ago, but he still did. And how could she ever like him as much as he liked her? She was just like Sigyn, perhaps even her! They looked at each other and smiled.

Mayura broke the silence by singing the song again. She had never actually finished the whole song as she had always been interrupted but this time she planned on finishing it. Perhaps it would lighten Loki's mood? She gave it her all, each verse more beautiful than the next. Loki watched her sing, as he had done when Sigyn sang for him. Mayura never knew she could sing before this but it seemed as if something had awakened in her with that dream she had.

As Mayura neared the end of the song, something peculiar began to happen. The park was empty of people, Loki began to notice, and a soft wind picked up. He looked at Mayura and just as she sang the last line of the song, a bright light shown and standing before him, in Mayura's place, was a young woman.

Her hair a dark auburn, in thick loose braids, she wore deep warm bright eyes, large and full of joy, and a light smile. The outfit she was wearing was made from wool and fur, long, and warm. The woman's whole being was glowing, radiating with joy at finally being awakened. She embraced Loki, who sat there astonished.

"Sigyn!" He held onto her tightly, as if letting her go would cause her to slip away again. "How…? Mayura?" He looked at her in disbelief. She smiled serenely and he knew that although she was there at the moment, she wasn't like Freyja in Reiya. There was something different to her, almost phantasmal, not quite tangible.

"Yes, Mayura is my reincarnated self. I don't have much time, Mayura's form isn't meant for prolonged body transitions. I'm sorry that I disappeared so suddenly, Loki. Odin, he-"Her hands were beginning to fade away. Loki started to shake his head no as he saw her slip away again. "Mayura… I'll give her my memories. Help her be the goddess she was meant to be and beware of Odin, Loki, he isn't who he seems to be." Just as she was reaching to hold him she disappeared, leaving behind her Mayura who stood there stunned.

For the first time in Loki's long life, he was speechless.

He simply sat there watching vaguely Mayura, not paying attention to her. Her eyes glowed faintly as the memories and powers of a past life she had never lived but was hers, flooded back into her. She gasped loudly as if struggling to breathe and sat next to Loki. Mayura looked at him; he hadn't moved and only continued to stare at where she was. His eyes had been clouded by something dark, furious and emotional.

It was Mayura, Loki thought, she was the reason why he had come to Japan. She was the one who caused so many tumbling emotions within him. Love, annoyance, fear, love… Love. He realized it now, after all this time, that he did love her on her own before he even knew she was Sigyn. He shifted his thoughts within his mind. Was it because he recognized her as Sigyn before realizing it?

Loki looked at Mayura. She was calling his name, but it didn't register in his mind. He saw it now. Her demeanor was the very same as Sigyn, both were kind, excited individuals. Mayura's personality reflected Sigyn's well, the only exception was that Mayura enjoyed mysteries and was curious to a fault. Certainly, Sigyn was a curious person but this was exaggerated within Mayura. And her eyes… They looked so much like Sigyn's, so bright, so warm, but what is it in Mayura's? She's worried?

"Mayura?" Loki finally managed to say, as he continued to look at her. She jumped at him and wrapped herself around him, burying her face into his neck.

"Loki-kuuuun~" She cried and held tighter. He didn't immediately reciprocate the hug but when he did it felt neither awkward nor strained. At that, he tightened his hold around Mayura and buried his face into her hair. She smelled sweet and faintly of vanilla. Years he spent searching for warmth like that of Sigyn in women, mortal and goddess alike, even a giantess here or there. Never to be found except within Mayura. He inhaled her deeply.

The intensity of the moment was brought to a climax as he tilted her head up and gave her a kiss deeper and more real than she could ever dream. Her heart was pounding, feeling as if about to burst, from her ribcage and she began to feel lightheaded. Trembling, she brought her hands to his face and embraced the kiss. She was inexperienced, Mayura knew this and was sure that Loki knew as well, but she didn't let that stop her as she melted into him. As she leaned into him, he locked his hands behind her back and held her close.

"Mayura," he murmured as he pulled his face away from hers, "I've found love within you, both new and old. My life might not be flaw free but …" He moved a strand of her hair from her face and looked directly into her red eyes. "I hope that you might be able to find a place for me in your heart, some day."

Her eyes began to water and she snuggled into Loki again. "You already have a place there!" She smiled as she said it and giggled, drunk with these new feelings. He laughed a full, delighted laugh, as if stress he wasn't aware that was there had washed away.

At that moment a nearby streetlight exploded into a puff of purple smoke. Mayura gaped while Loki simply grinned. He was aware that the explosion was triggered by Mayura's surge of emotions.

"Looks like someone has new powers they need to learn to control."

"Me?" Mayura asked, shocked. "Whaaatt? Loki-kun!" He just laughed at her confusion and horror.

"Relax, you're already a goddess, you'll get the hang of it." He laughed more as she puffed out her cheeks.

"Ohhhhh, Loki-kun! Don't tease me!" But he was already up and away, laughing, making Mayura chase after him. "Loki-kun! I-"

"What are you going to do now, Mayura?" Loki asked her, suddenly serious. She stopped walking. "I mean, are you going to go home and tell your father? If you need it, I could come over to your place and help explain things with you. You're more than welcome to stay over our house again, if you need time to collect your thoughts about what's happened." Mayura hadn't even thought of these things. In truth, she completely forgot about her father, which shamed her a bit. She was just too entranced with Loki at the present moment to think of anything else.

"I'd like your help talking to papa, Loki-kun…" She looked down at her skirt. "I think maybe we should go there now. Even if I were to stay over again, I need to get new clothes." Loki nodded and grabbed her hand. The two walked to the Daidouji shrine together.