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Day 534:

Sigyn was sitting in the Halls of Healing. It was quiet and it had been that way for hours. She was about to give up for the day, when the doors opened and Sif walked in.

"Good, you are still here." She said, sitting down on the bed across from Sigyn. "I thought you might have left."

"I was about to." Sigyn said. "Are you alright? Did Thor come up with some harebrained plan again?"

"No, I'm fine." Sif said, laughing. "I just wanted to talk to you."

Sigyn shifted in her seat. Ever since the failed dinner, Sigyn and Sif had spent no time together.

"What about?" she asked.

"I wanted to apologize." Sif said quietly. "For that night. I suppose…I know Thor has forgiven Loki, but I cannot seem to look past the things he did."

"No one is asking you to." Sigyn told her. "I am certainly not asking for everything to go back to the way it was. For one thing, Loki is not the same man he once was."

"If you say so." Sif said.

"Lady, the man who hated his father and banished his brother was beaten and broken down into nothing." Sigyn told her. "There was nothing left for him to do but to put back the pieces as best he could. There is no way that he could be the same person again, no matter how hard he tried, there was no way he could make himself be the same. And what he did tortures him, you have to believe me."

Sif was quiet for a moment.

"I believe you." She told her. "I just look at him and I see the same smug bastard that sat on Odin's throne."

"I cannot change that." Sigyn told her.

"I know." Sif replied. "It is something I will have to do over time, on my own. And I am willing to try. But I miss my friend, the Lady Sigyn."

Sigyn looked away.

"He needs me, Sif." She said. "But you are right. I miss you, my friend, as well."

"Do you remember when we were younger, and we played that trick on your sisters?" Sif asked, smiling.

Sigyn laughed.

"It must have taken them a month to find the spell to turn their hair back." She said. "What when we were in lessons, and no matter where they put us, we would always talk?"

"Our tutors would get so angry!" Sif said, laughing with her.

Sigyn's laughter faded away, but her smile remained.

"The two of us." She said, her smile growing soft as she remembered. "The Warrior Women. Remember how much grief the others would give Thor and Loki for letting us run with them, but they never let it bother them. They just said if we could keep up, we belonged."

Sif looked thoughtful.

"I'd forgotten how much Loki used to defend us." She said. "More than Thor at times. I suppose he was not willing to let you out of his sight even then."

Sigyn reached over and threw a pillow at Sif, who dodged it, laughing.

"I have missed this." Sif told her.

Sigyn nodded.

"How about this?" Sigyn asked. "I do not try to push you to forgive Loki, you do not try to turn me against him."

"Like I could." Sif said, smiling. "But agreed."

Sigyn got up and sat down next to her, nudging the vastly different, and yet the same, woman with her shoulder.

"Loki is meeting with Frigga tonight for their weekly dinner." She told her. "Want to go to the dining hall and see how much we can embarrass Thor and the Warriors Three? I bet I can get Hogun to crack."

"You are on." Sif said.

Sigyn got up and cleaned up her area before turning back to her old friend.

"Shall we?" she asked.

Sif got up and wrapped her arm through Sigyn's arm.

"We shall." She said.

A/N: I know it's short, but I just had this little scene in my head. Hope you like it. In fact, you should tell me how much you like it in a review!

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