Snowflake
By Rey

Chapter summary: The undeniable fact, the crux of the matter… which is still deniable if one is persistent in their disbelief.

31. Crux

"Amma" is fed up with their little prisoner's continued defiance, escapism, and reluctance to do anything with them or their people or this land, apparently.

But not in a thousand millennia would Loki have guessed about what has actually made them so upset for so long.

Or rather, he could guess, and he did guess, but the guess is quite unfortunately solidified as fact the moment his mad, mad, mad captor speaks.

And what a concept! – Him, their only surviving womb-child? Him, her only viable heir to the throne? Him, Loki, the second prince, the spare child, the ergi trickster, the delicate would-be warrior, the pretty boy, the "bookish little cub," the unmanly seiðr-worker, a crown prince?! Future ruler of a populated realm that would accept him?

He shakes his head bitterly.