Chapter V Asgard
Írimë grew up. She became a strong and intelligent maiden. Her power had grown over the years as did her love for the inhabitants of Jotunheim.
Far away in time that night when she had met little Jotnar, but in her heart time had stopped just there.
She had searched for the little boy in every corner of the universe. She had asked in her world the reason for their separation, but had only received by reply that the designs of Ilúvatar were mysterious and that it was not possible to envision the end of all the stories.
She had lived with that pain ever since and with the sad acceptance that it was the first of her ancestry to fail. She had abandoned her protégé.
For this reason, the debt to the Jotnar was enormous. She decided to dedicate every second of her life to protect them. In each Jotun that she protected, she saw her little and defenseless baby. She felt better knowing that at least she was protecting his people.
The Jotnar themselves knew nothing about that baby, they did not know who could belong and many times they had believed that this had been the product of írimë's imagination.
Her old friend Ax had died during that battle and all connections she could have with that night had disappeared
The only thing she knew about that old battle was that it had been fought between several worlds and that Asgard had been one of them.
Farbauti and his two sons had died at the hands of the king of Asgard and the throne of Jotunheim was empty since then.
Írimë had decided to protect inhabitants in the absence of the king and that is what she did since then.
Asgard always found reasons to attack them.
Led by Odin's son, Thor and his warriors visited Jotunheim and murdered entire families, maybe they did this for fun, maybe they wanted to prove who was in charge. Nobody knew the real reasons. The fact was that they arrived at Jotunheim as enemies and many times Irime did not arrive in time to avoid all those deaths.
When she was present Thor and his people could not touch the Jotnar, she surpassed them greatly in power and over time she became "the mysterious protector of the Jotnar"
Many times she had tried to reason with the Asgardians but had never managed to make peace with them. Son of Jord, as she called Thor, was an irrational being.
Perhaps this was the reason why one day the Lady Elbereth and her lord Manwe sent for her, at least this was what they told her.
-Írimë
Said the lady of the stars with a solemn voice
-We know about your trips to Jotunheim, the kingdom of the Frost Giants …
Íirme bowed her head when she heard that
-We understand that your love for the Jotnar is great and we know that you have avoided many deaths
The Istari raised her face to face her Queen face to face, proudly confronted those facts
-That's why we think you're the one to accompany me on the mission that Iluvatar has entrusted us.
Írimë was excited and surprised at the same time
Now Lord Manwe spoke:
-Ilúvatar has ordered that we must interfere in an issue that threatens the future of the Universe. Asgard is enemy of Jotunheim and this rivalry could come the end of time, we must travel to Asgard as messengers of our creator to ask for a truce between both worlds. We know that this is difficult but we must carry out the mandate of Iluvatar and we have decided that you will accompany your Lady in this mission of peace.
She felt her heart speed up.
-My Lord, my Lady …
She said dedicating them both a solemn bow
-I am honored by your decision but I have tried to reason with them and it is not possible to do so, they do not want peace.
Manwe nodded to her words
-We know it, they believe that the prophecies must be fulfilled and we believe that these can be avoided, they are only possible futures and not inevitable, but we must fulfill the desires of the creator.
Írime frowned when she heard her lord mention the word prophecy but did not dare to ask anything that had not been said, she knew that Manwe's words were the words of Iluvatar.