Dira stirred in the armchair, and opening her eyes she turned her head to look at the clock on the mental piece. 1:30 am.

She hadn't meant to full asleep and so she pulled herself up out of the chair and reached for the remote to turn the T.V. She wondered groggily upstairs and into her bathroom, stripped down and showered.

It was as Dira made to turn off the shower that the first signs showed. As she pressed her hand against the metal dial purple wisps emitted from her hand. She jumped back and had to steady herself against the tiled wall. Glancing again at her hand the purple wisps had gone, then she inspected her hand more closely, it was completely normal looking. She pressed the dial to turn off the shower, while watching her hand closely, nothing happened.

Stepping out of the shower Dira wrapped herself in a white towel. But as she rubbed her hair with a smaller hand-held towel Dira noticed it again in the mirror. She dropped the towel suddenly in her haste to study her hand again. Purple wisps, like some sort of energy were emitting and swirling around her hand. Dira's eyes widened and she suddenly felt quite afraid.

Then within seconds of the wisps coming they faded into nothingness. Dira stared at her hand once more and examined it closely, as perfectly normal as she'd always remembered it. Perhaps I'm just tired? She thought to herself. And shrugging off her fear she went to bed.


Yeah, I know this chapter is too short, I'm sorry. But it's very important to the story, and it wouldn't fit to put the next part of the story with this part here. Despite it shortness I really like this chapter. All the others have had a lot of conversation, and in this one I move away from all of that and instead I'm foreshadowing the story a bit more and getting slightly into Dira's character. (sorry to all the Loki fangirls who haven't heard from him in this chapter) Anyway, please review and tell me how you think to story is going and I'll have the next chapter up as soon as possible. Thanks a million, Miarka.