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CHAPTER FOUR:

Vienna was called in to work. She enjoyed being at the book store, but there were hardly any customers at night, she didn't see the point in having it open

"Because sometimes students forget to buy books and when they do, we will be open," The boss had said. Vienna's boss was an old woman, white hair, glasses, wrinkly. She was nice though, she had given Vienna the title of manager out of the four people who worked at the bookstore. Her boss, Karen, was hardly ever at the book shop, she didn't live in town and she was always away on holidays with her husband

Vienna had brought Loki with her to the store; she didn't trust leaving him in her apartment by himself just yet

"Vienna, I am sure I am capable of not setting fire to the apartment," Loki had told her when she asked him to come with her

"I know, but you should get an idea of what the town is like if you are going to be staying, besides, I could talk to my boss and possibly get you a job at the store," Vienna smiled. Loki rolled his eyes, but went with her anyway

"What do you do while you are here?" Loki asked as Vienna sat behind the counter

"Clean up the isles and make sure the books are in their proper places, stuff like that," she told him

"What a fun job," Loki said sarcastically

"It pays the bills," Vienna shrugged "And I get to read if I am not helping out a customer," she added

"Do you enjoy reading?" Loki asked

"I do," Vienna said, getting off her stole and walking around the counter to move a pile of books some lazy customer had stacked on a chair

"What is your favourite book?" Loki asked

"I quite like The Hunger Games," Vienna said, taking the pile of books and putting them in their places. Loki took the pile off her and carried it, Vienna then took the top book and put it in its place

"What is this 'Hunger games'?" Loki asked

"It is about kids who get selected to fight against each other in this arena. In the future, of course. There are twelve districts and two tributes are selected from the ages of twelve to eighteen from each district at this thing called a 'reaping', one boy one girl, and are sent to the capitol where they are paraded about and then sent to an arena where they fight to the death," Vienna explained

"So, children killing children? This is what Midgard has come to?" He asked, the last part more to himself

"Midgard?" Vienna asked, pausing from putting a book on the shelf

"Earth, I mean," Loki corrected

"Yes, it is about that and more," Vienna said

"What do you like to read?" Vienna asked as they continued to walk around the isles

"I prefer to read about science," Loki said
He really preferred to read about magic but he figured that If he told a Midgardian that, they would think him rather… odd

"What sort of science?" Vienna asked, heading back to her stole behind the counter

"Astronomy, time travel, physics," Loki listed

"I'm doing a course on astronomy in Uni at the moment," Vienna smiled

"And what have you learned?" Loki smirked

Mortals would be amazed at the kind of power the Bifrost has

No Midgardian knowledge can compare to Asguardian knowledge of space and time Loki thought smugly to himself

"Well, I learnt that when you look at a star in the sky you are actually looking back in time," Vienna said

"And how is that?" Loki asked

"Well, a star is hundreds, thousands and millions of light years away right? So, in the time it takes for the light of that star to hit Earth, it will be in the past," Vienna explained. Loki looked at her, puzzled

"Well, the sun's light takes eight minutes to hit Earth, if it blew up, we wouldn't know for eight minutes, that is the same with other stars in the galaxy, if a star is six hundred and thirty light years away, we are seeing it as it was six hundred and thirty years ago," Vienna further explained

"That is most interesting," Loki nodded. Vienna smiled, she felt proud of herself when she talked about outer space and the things she has learnt

Hours passed by and only a few people came into the store. People who had forgotten to buy books, like Karen had said to Vienna. The first was a fellow University student who had an essay due and needed to do further research for his work. The second was an old man who had simply felt like buying a new book to read, a book about the Second World War

"I was in this war, you know," he had told Vienna. Vienna just nodded and smiled politely

Loki had left the store to take a walk around the town. Claiming that he should 'get an idea of the town'. So Vienna set out to find a book to read. There were no customers so she figured, why not?

She decided to settle with something that was not quite fictional, but not quite scientific either. Mythology. Norse mythology to be exact. Vienna read all about the Norse gods, such as Thor and the warriors three, even about the allfather Odin. And then she came across the God of Mischief. Loki

"Loki?" Vienna asked herself

'Norse god of Mischief, chaos and lies'

She looked at the picture drawn of what the god may look like. Raven hair, green eyes

Loki has raven hair and green eyes she thought

'Colours that may resemble the god are black, gold and green' she read on

Just at that moment, Loki walked back into the store

"You look a little troubled," he said and approached the counter. He leant against it resting his arms on the fine wood

"What is the matter?" He asked. Vienna showed him the Norse Mythology book

"You wouldn't happen to be Loki, the god of mischief, chaos and lies, would you?"