Chapter 7
Nearly a week has passed and Julia hasn't contacted me. I just finished showing the house next to hers again, and looked over at her wearing jeans and a sweater, working on her garden that was still blooming rapidly even with the impending winter. I was about to start walking back home when she spoke.
"I hope you got enough Lord Loki," she said sweetly making me quickly turn to see a tall lean man standing on her porch, with neck length black hair that did little corkscrews at the tips, one little cowlick at the very top of his head, which Julia proceeded to walk over to him and try to flatten, but after a few tries to no avail just laughed.
"Oh well it looks cute on you," she giggled, a slight smile crossing Loki's face. He was enjoying her attention! I had to hold myself back as anger nearly boiled over. I wanted to attack the trickster god, but he was family. I couldn't afford to make any more enemies, especially with my kin.
"So you'll tell my mom I said hi and wish to meet her," Julia asked looking up at him with admiration while he gathered up a bulging bag, probably filled with apples.
"Of course little one if you need me to do anything else please just ask. I'm sure we can work out some deal," Loki said his green eyes flashing red for a moment, but this didn't seem to set Julia off. She just nodded Loki walking away, disappearing when he reached the sidewalk as he was out of the range of the presence us demigods let off, that allows us to see mystical beings. I looked back at Julia who met my eyes with a pained look, before heading back into her house.
I kept walking back towards town, stopping when I felt a distinct brush of air. I looked up as the sun was blocked out, everyone stopping to look at the solar eclipse, but I knew I was seeing something different. There was a giant white wolf with blazing blue eyes, a faint light coming from its mouth where the sun was trapped. It looked at me with those glowing eyes, the faint trace of sapphire blue marks tracing their way from the corners on his eyes in intricate patterns. We looked at each other for a couple seconds before he started to make some jerky movements, as if having an invisible tug-of-war game. The strength of the opponent so evenly matched a normal human couldn't have noticed the slight movements, but then the sun broke out of his mouth, continuing its path across the sky. While the wolf as if hit tumbled towards earth, but before he could hit the ground he caught himself standing on air, and shaking himself off. He gave me a sharp look and barked, though no one else could hear him, and inside my head I heard a deep rough voice say, "Soon."
I gave a small nod and he shot back into the sky, going after the sun again.
I started to walk back home muttering, "Maybe soon, but not yet Sköll."
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