The Worlds End.

Three years had gone by since the End of the Worlds came to Worlds End. Now the city had been restored to its first glory, only lacking its ever-looming former religion, the Order.

Where wrecked buildings and premises where, now stood tall and magnificent structures. Large squares, cheerful little shops, fountains with gleaming waters, children running around playing. It was beautiful.

The library and other public services were reconstructed and open, once more to the public. The city burst with life and music. Maddy knew, that was all her sister's doing. Maggie had said before she left that she would be the one to restore Worlds End. And restore it she had.

'Maddy come on.' urged Heimdal.

'So where are we going and when do we start?' asked Maddy eagerly trying to keep up with his quick pacing.

'I've made this plan about suspicious places and where it would be possible to find... threats to the gods.'

'Just say it Heimdal. The Nameless is what we're looking for, right?'

Heimdal stopped at his tracks and turned to look at her. It was a scary, piercing look.

'Don't you dare think for one moment that I'm scared to say his name or something. Wake up Maddy. At the current moment Mimir is our last care. Though if he has recruited other people to guard and keep his precious Order while he's still growing, well.. that remains to be seen.'

'Why is everyone so certain that he has possesed Maggies son? Adam he... he is just a little boy no more than three years old. I still keep hope that things are not like that.'

'You're just a little girl aren't you?' he asked her despondently. He seemed a little tired, Maddy thought. 'Of course you are,' he said a little wistfully, 'Maddy youth is good, only its naive. You are naive. Odin told us and Odin is a Seer.'

'But you can never trust a Seer!' she demanded.

'No you can't. But I trust my friend. Now we need to get going.' he said resuming his quick pace.

'OK then.' she said and followed him.

First they searched through the Woods just outside the city. It was long and it was tiring, though it had to be done. Then they visited the outskirts, covertly searching around and long last they returned to the city.

'We need to find a place to sleep.' said Heimdal seemingly tired. Not that Maddy wasn't tired; she was a wreck.

'I couldn't agree more with you. Let's go.'

They finally found a small, peppy inn to stay the night.

'We'll stay in one room for safety, is that OK with you?' he asked her.

'Yeah sure, no problem with me.' Maddy told him, NOT that it didn't feel weird. Unlike the room she and Loki had rent, this one had two seperate beds (Heimdal must had requested that) and it was a lot more spacious. The moment she entered she threw her bags on the floor and fell onto the bed.

'Ughhh, I ache. All. Over.' she said.

'Same here.' answered Heimdal who unlike her took both their bags and settled things around. 'Should I get us something to eat, seeing as you don't look like moving from that bed.'

'That would be awesome.' she told him. 'Thanks.'

'OK then.' he said and left.

Maddy grabbed the opportunity to change into bed clothing now that she was alone. She changed out of her dirty pants and blouse and into a comfy knee-lenght night gown. It wasn't exavtly modest, though it was not very revealing either. It was made of light pink silk though (Loki loved silk) and had black lace details at the hem and straps. Also it was quite fitting around the waist and Maddy couldn't help but think if it was appropriate in this situation. Oh well, there was nothing she could do about it now.

Heimdal came in with two bags that smelled like heaven. When he looked at her though, he froze for a minute.

'Umhh, here you go.' he told her uncomfortably -was he avoiding looking at her?- and gave her the bag.

'Oh, thank you very much.' she answered.

Perhaps the night gown was rather inappropriate at the current moment, but really what was she supposed to do? Sleep in hunters gear?

She opened the bag and they both sat down to eat.

'I got you chicken, I hope it's OK'

'Right now, it's all I could have hoped for.' she said and started eating. After that they did some small talk, mainly about the day to come and then they both fell asleep.

Blood. A lot of blood. Pools of it.

Dead men chanting her name like a solemn prayer, Maddy...Maddy...

Loki was among them but he didn't speak. He only looked at her with those eyes who were like pits of wildfire when he was alive, only now they pits were empty, the fire gone. She was in pain, in all kinds of physical and mental pain. A voice cut through the skies, tearing at her skull. It's over, it hissed. Over...

Maddy?

She woke up screaming, her forehead gleaming with sweat, her head was light. She felt the brush of a hand on her arm.

'Are you OK, hey, Maddy look at me.' she focused back at the person before her. Heimdal had knelt by her bed, a worried look plastered on his face.

'I...yeah fine, I'm fine.' she said and climbed of the bed heading for the flagon of water. She used it to wash off some of the nightmare's threads from her face and tried to drink some.

Heimdal was looking silently at her for a while. Then he slowly approached her by the table and tucked part of the hair that was falling in front of her face behind her ear.

'What in Hell's name was that?' he asked her puzzled.

'Just a dream. A nightmare.' she whispered her voice shaking.

'It seemed like more than just a common nightmare to me. Do you have any idea how much you were screaming and twitching? It was quite scary.'

'Yeah, it's nothing, it's happened before. I can handle it.'

'Can you?' he asked turning her so that she faced him. Tears glistened in her eyes.

'Yes.' she answered firmly and went back to her bed. He did so as well but neither slept after that.

The next day would be a hard one.