Summer in Norway was beautiful. The water was clear and the waves high.
Most days chilling ocean wind would sweep across New Asgard.
Today though was one of those rare days when it didn't, the heat was sweltering. Thor had to constantly wipe his own brow, and that was in spite the fact that he was walking around without a shirt, bare chested.
Most Asgardians took to just relaxing in the heat, it was to hot to do much.
That was then, a child came zooming right past Thor carrying a sledge above his head.
Thor blinked… Huh?
Then another one came. "ME TO ME TO!"
"LET'S BUILD A SNOW MAN!" A third one shouted.
"I'm going to build the biggest snow man!" Was the shout and all the children were running.
Thor was stunned… Had he heard right? Snow man? And there were a couple of children dragging on sledges now… What… What was going on?
Stunned Thor followed the flow of children until finally he saw something white in the horizont, and then finally as Thor walked, he now stood right in front of a large patch of pure snow in front of him beside the mountain.
Thor gaped. It was ridicules! Where he stood right now the heat was massive, but was he to take just one step he would be standing at a place where it was snowing! There was a big cloud above them, but only above that patch sending down soft flakes of snow. Then Thor looked at the snowy area again and in the middle he saw… An ice cave.
Or you could call it an igloo, it was round, made of snow and had one entrance in the front. Thor hesitated, but then stepped inside, immediately his body hit by the cold of the area.
The children didn't seem to mind as they were running around laughing, building snowmen, dragging each other around on sledges.
Finally Thor stood in front of the snow cave, then bowed over to fit the entrance. "He.. Hello." he asked, then took a step inside and there he was met with a pair of glowing red eyes looking very sullen at him.
Loki… sitting right there in the middle of his little snow cave, his arms crossed, his entire face in a sullen frown and his red eyes glaring. "Not… one… word." he spat.
Thor gaped, then he shook his head. "Oh… I probably should have figured that out." he commented .
Lokis eyes narrowed in a glare.
"I'm sorry, is there a reason you decided to make a winter wonder land out there?" Thor asked. "I mean it's nice. Is it the heat?" he asked. "Are your body unable to handle the heat?"
Loki seethed.
"Ah, I see." Thor sighed. "I'm sorry brother, there's not really much I can do about that."
"Do not pity me Thor." Loki demanded.
"I was just being polite." Thor stated as he got all the way inside and sat down. "So erhm… How long do you think you need to stay in here?"
Again Loki was just glaring, clearly he wasn't very happy.
"It should be fine at night time right?" Thor asked. "Can I get you anything? Food? One of your books? You're working on something?"
"I'll manage!" Loki snapped.
Now Thor had to wrap his good arm around himself, and he realized he should probably at least have put a shirt on before venturing in here. It was freezing. "You know, if you need to you can go… Somewhere else for a while. Not that I don't want you here! I really do. But you know, what-ever you need to do. The mountain tops are cold all year around. I can handle things here alone for a while. It will be harder, you done so much. But it is only right I make do."
"I said… I'll manage!" Loki stated.
Thor sighed. "Loki, we both know your body comes with both new strengths and new limitations. It's all right. Nothing to feel shame about."
Loki just pouted.
"Sorry brother, I think I better get out before I get pneumonia." Thor smiled wryly. "I'll be back later with dinner… And I'll remember to wear a jacket." he grinned as he crawled backwards and outside where he now saw laughing children throwing snowballs at each other. Well someone was happy.
Then Thor turned to the spot where the snow ended and summer began, and there was Bruce Banner gaping looking at all of it.
"Friend Banner." Thor smiled warmly walking for his Midgard friend. "All well?"
"I… I was looking for Loki for my meditation practice." Bruce informed. "They told me he was here… Is he?" he pointed at the snow cave.
"Aye." Thor smirked. "Lokis species has a different name than just Jotunns, frost giants. Build for snow and unfathomable cold. I think the current heat just was a bit to much. If you want to meditate with him, I have to recommend coat and boots."
"I really didn't think I would need anything like that for another couple of months." Bruce blinked. "Is he all right in there?" he asked.
"He's grumpy because of his own limitations, but he's fine." Thor chuckled. "Trade off is he can easily withstand colds that even Asgardian would quickly succumb to. But I don't think he cares right now. I trust though that when winter comes and everyone except him is freezing, he is going to relish it."
"Yeah." Bruce sighed. "I'm going to go get my coat." he stated as he turned around and Thor shook his head only to get a snowball right in the face and a child screamed in delight over having hit their king.
"You sure you wanted to do that?" Thor asked as he bowed down collecting a bunch of snow and he stood. "No one beats the mighty Thor!" he roared as he charged inside and all the children screamed and ran in pure lightly.
