Snowflake
By Rey

Chapter summary: Perfection can be had in the least of things, when one is often underestimated.

Chapter notes: A kin-sibling is a title used to refer to siblings sired by the same person. A kraði is Jötunheim's version of winter, happening every thousand years.

25. Sublime

"Loé, these are your kin-siblings, older than you are and each other by each a kraði," "Amma" says.

Perched once more in their arms, Loki has no other choice but to look at the two frost giants standing rather awkwardly before the both of them.

The newcomers look younger and smaller than his captor is by a good degree. In fact, seated so high like this, he is taller than the aforementioned duo are in a way.

He cannot help the thrill of pleasure that suffuses a juvenile part of his heart on that realisation.

The concept of any kind of siblinghood that he might share with these brutes is riddiculous, bizarre and unsettling. Nearly as unsettling as the idea of having "Amma" as a parent figure for him is, or the notion that his sire was a jötun – a bigger jötun than "Amma" is. But still, however brutish the duo look, and however guarded they are behaving at present, they do look somehow gentler and more attentive than how Thor often regards him in the latter's most caring mood. Without any whiff of I-am-deigning-to-speak-to-you-now-you-tiny-delicate-creature-so-you-had-best-behave-yourself air that he has always despised from many, many people in Asgard including his own brother, at that.

So, when "Amma" orders the three of them to spend time together, and provides them with a huge mound of pristine snow to play with, indoors….

Well, he would like to see whether these purported family members of his will be as mad as Thor usually is when met with a faceful of snow, in the least.

And if they look as flabbergasted as that oaf is, in such event….

He grins.

Being underestimated is at times so very fun.