You are hungry and the food looks great but you can't make yourself eat. He's smiling and picking at his food.

Children! Right. "How is that new child doing with her studies, what was her name?"

"Her name is Hyndla" he answers. You knew that... why did you have to ask him, he probably thinks you aren't paying attention to them. "She is very strong, much stronger than the boys, could we be wrong about her being a half mage?" He asked as he popped a piece of fish into his mouth a little too casually.

"The genetics are complicated" you answer. "It's more than a single gene and while most halfmages have approximately the same group of genes, give or take, there are other genes that can influence one's powers." He knows that. You've had this conversation already. This is really awkward.

He nodded and picked up another piece of fish. While you were having trouble eating, he seemed to be eating compulsively.

You poked at your food and finally picked up a piece of fish and put it in your mouth. It was delicious, and you were reminded that you were actually hungry so you daintily picked up another. You both ate in silence for a couple minutes, occupied by the food.

There was a decanter of sea fruit wine on the table and you picked up your glass in one hand and reached for it with the other. He beat you to it and filled your glass, then filled his own. This should help.

And it did. After a couple glasses. You both seemed a little less awkward and conversation flowed more freely. He told you funny stories about the boys, Baugi is a mischievous one and Loki is very amused by his antics, such as intentionally misspelling a set of runes that turned his brother's hair blue to match his skin. Loki is certain that the boy knew exactly what he was doing.

You laughed. And you both had more wine and laughed some more. In fact the wine was so funny he called for another bottle.

This bottle was obviously defective as it was soon empty. You didn't think it was a good idea to ask for another so soon so Loki held the empty bottle in his hand and it glowed green for a moment. Then he grinned mischievously and poured a sparkling golden liquid in your glass. "Asgardian mead" he said.

You took a sip and were startled by how thick and sweet it was, and very strong. But the sweetness was pleasant. You told him that you liked it and the two of you finished that bottle too. He may have refilled it a time or two.

This called for a nice walk out to the fish pond with the leftovers from dinner. As Loki flung his leftovers, plate and all into the pond he lost his balance and fell into the water. The look on his face was hysterical, he seemed surprised and offended that water was wet.

You laughed and reached out your hand to pull him out and the next thing you knew you were in the water too, the silly fish were nibbling at you, it tickled and you couldn't stop laughing. Loki was trying to brush the fish away and swatted you instead- which made you laugh even more and smack him back. He seemed to be over his anger at water and started laughing too. You worried that the noise would attract the attention of the castle guards so you cast a spell that would make anyone within sight or hearing not notice, or you hoped that was what it would do.

The two of you managed to crawl out of the pond, soaking wet and covered in mud. Your gown clung to your legs as you tried to walk, it didn't occur to you or Loki to dry yourselves off with magic, this may have been a good thing at this point as things could have gone embarrassingly sideways. However, it was hard to walk with your gown clinging to you so you started to float in the air-wait, no that was Loki, he picked you up and carried you. He was very strong for someone so small.

You wrapped your arms around his neck to steady yourself and giggled into the crook of his neck when he stubbles on a big block of melting ice, nearly falling forward onto you. Your breath on his neck tickled him and he laughed and asked you to stop.

You directed him to bring you back to your suite, you intended to change out of your muddy gown but he just walked over and sat on a couch in your sitting room with you still in his arms, both of you wet and muddy. You decided that his lap was actually a very comfortable spot and fell asleep, he apparently did too.

You woke up to bright morning light, the sound of someone yelling and the horrible smell of fish mud turning your stomach.

"Sorceress! Wake up! Come quickly! There has been an incident in the sparring field!! Hurry please!" Said a messenger whom a guard had let in.

You were laying on the couch and there was a weight on your belly. You clothing was damp and covered in mud, it was really uncomfortable and itchy. You tried to force yourself awake. As you tried to stand you found that the weight on your belly was Loki's head-he was sound asleep and snoring lightly, he was seated but had just leaned over and used your lap as a pillow. Your legs were still over his, you were quite embarrassingly entangled. The messenger was clearly averting his eyes as he frantically urged you to get up.

You shook Loki's shoulder until he stirred. He looked up at you in surprise for a second and then smiled sweetly, then grimaced when he caught a whiff of the damp fish mud. You would have laughed but the smell was turning your stomach and you needed to see what the messenger was so upset about.

Your head was pounding and you had to change. You magically changed your clothing and rid yourself of the pond water and mud. While you were at it you removed it from the couch and Loki too. He got up and magically changed his clothes and said a hangover curing spell for the both of you. You could have kissed him for that one.

The messenger was urging you to follow him, so you both teleported to the sparring field.

When you got there Jaxarna was standing apart from the others and crying. Thor and the men were trying not to laugh, and Sif and the two female Jotun were giggling. The two Jotnar women were each petting a head of a very cute two headed snow elk fawn.

Volstagg pointed at the fawn and laughed "that's the most female attention he has gotten since we've been on Jotunheim!"

Thor burst out laughing and Hogan smirked uncharacteristically.

Jaxarna ran to you and sniffled at you "I'm so sorry sorceress, I don't know how I did it and I don't know how to change him back".

Kolga looked up at you from petting the fawn "Really Sorceress, it's ok, we like him much better this way" and everyone burst out laughing.

"He really did have it coming" Sif said.

You look at Loki and he looks at the fawn "Fandral?" The fawn's two heads perk up and look towards him. He looks at Jaxarna "You did this?"

She sobs and then says "Yes Loki Prince, Teacher. I turned the Aesir man into this two headed fawn. But I don't know how to turn him back! I'm really sorry, I wasn't thinking. I just did it."

"To be fair, he was making her uncomfortable" said Kolga. "She didn't know how to respond and he must not have realized that she was so young"

"She is taller than most Aesir women" said Volstagg "but she is clearly a child. He had it coming"

You look at Jaxarna "We can fix this, it will be OK".

The young girl wipes her eyes with her hands and tries to smile.

"Do you remember anything about how it happened?"

"He was staring at me and I didn't like the look on his face. He's small but he's a good fighter and I was afraid. I thought about how my father didn't like it when I messed with the Elk- I tried to make them have more twins but sometimes they just had two heads" she said sadly, looking at the ground. "It was the worst thing I could do and I was angry at him so I thought about him as a fawn, he wouldn't be able to hurt me that way. Then I saw him change and I screamed. The others came over and they laughed but they didn't know I couldn't change him back."

"Well it might be hard but we will figure it out. It depends on whether you just shifted him or if you actually affected his DNA. I'm thinking it was a simple shift because doing it molecularly would be very delicate and he would likely have more problems than just two heads" you said smiling. "At least you're didn't throw a fireball at him"

The fawn walked over to you, it's two sets of eyes liquid and pleading. One of the Jotnar women reached over and jerked its tail gently and giggled. One of the fawns heads whipped around to catch her, then turned back to look at you again. The Jotnar women, at least, were really enjoying his predicament.

"We'll fix you up, Fandral. But maybe now you will learn to leave us Jotnar women alone. I'm sure there are some who will like you, you just need to let them come to you. Men don't chase women like that in our culture, we come together by mutual attraction and we are very picky. We just need to get you out of the castle- but you must promise to slow down! Kolga and Skadi will not kill you, but other women warriors will, even non warriors can hurt you."

The fawn nodded both of its heads enthusiastically. That made you laugh with the others.

You examined the fawn and determined that it was just a simple projected shape shift. You were actually impressed that Jaxarna could do that, but since she had grown up with snow elk she knew them very well so their pattern was solid in her mind-particularly the ones she had inadvertently altered.

You put your hands on its shoulders and concentrated on your memory of the Aesir man. You telepathically connected with him in order to get all the details right and soon the fawn began to shift back into the man. You considered for a split second leaving the fluffy little tail as a reminder, but changed your mind in time.

Once he was completely back to himself he looked at Jaxarna and bowed "I am very sorry I frightened you Lady Jaxarna". Then he looked at you and said "thank you so much for returning me to myself, Sorceress".

"Thank you Sorceress" said Thor. "We were just about to get started with training when this happened. Lady Jaxarna are you ready to start now?"

Jaxarna grinned, obviously surprised that she would still be trained after what she had done "oh yes Thor Prince! I am ready!"

You and Loki smiled at her and turned to walk back to the castle.

"I think the fish had fun last night" said Loki, smirking.

"Yes, indeed they did" you responded. "I think they would like to get together again, but prefer that we stay on our side of the water".

Loki laughed and turned to you and smiled, the smile reached his sparkling red eyes and you couldn't help but smile back.