Thor scream until he had no voice. He tried to summon Mjolnir, but the strange wives the elves had placed in his hands prevented it. Frustrated, he collapsed against the wall of his dungeon. It was cold and dark, like the whole kingdom. He could hear a faint whisper of water running nearby. The guards who locked him there left, leaving him completely alone and isolated. That was the way the queen wanted him until he decided to talk.
Three days passed until someone came back to visit him. It was about two of the queen's personal guards. Without saying much, Thor was dragged upstairs. He thought that he would go back to the throne room, but he found himself in corridors completely unknown to him.
The guards stopped in front of a door adorned with gold gradabs.
"Elven runes." Thor was surprised to hear Einar's voice. He had not noticed his presence until that moment. "You can go."
"The queen charged us-" One of the soldiers began to say, however, Einar's voice cut him off, making them leave.
"They are protective runes." Einar explained. "I had them recorded the day I became the queen's trusted man." Einar could not hide the paternal tone he acquired when talking about his relationship with Kaysa. "She tries hard to be a good queen, but she's young."
"Youth is not an excuse." Thor's tone was cold.
"True, but I would like it to be taken into account when taking reprisals." Einar placed a hand on Thor's shoulder as a gesture of peace between the two races. However, Thor turned away from the gesture. He was not sure to trust his words. If Loki were here ... Just thinking about his brother infuriated Thor. He had not seen him since the moment Einar caught him as soon as he crossed the rainbow bridge.
Kaysa brought Einar and Thor to her rooms. Einar had convinced her to listen to the God of Thunder.
"I hear you." Kaysa said sitting in her chair. "What are you doing here?"
"It's a confidential matter." Thor replied. Kaysa's face hardened.
"I demand to be informed of why a God comes to my kingdom!" Kaysa tried to calm down while waiting for Thor's response.
"My queen." Einar intervened, who had remained silent observing the situation. "With all due respect, I think you should reconsider your attitude. He is Odin's son."
"I do not care who his father is." Anger filled Kaysa again. Everyone in the room was expecting a big argument. However, Kaysa surprised them. "Lock him up." Her eyes were completely dark and her voice sounded distant.
"Kaysa, no!" Einar shouted trying to change the girl's opinion. Kaysa stood up slowly and approached her trusted man.
"Go back to disrespect my orders and you will keep him company."
Einar did not answer. He just left the room followed by Thor.
Thor was back in his cell. Einar had not said anything on the way back. However, his face showed the anger inside him.
"The elf has character." The voice of his brother Loki reached his ears. Next, his image materialized in front of him. "I see you well." Laughed Loki. Thor did not say anything. He just looked at him harshly. "You will not be angry because I disappeared, right?" Loki feigned repentance. "Well, I have to tell you that thanks to that I can continue investigating what is happening here."
"And have you done it?" Knowing his brother, Thor doubted he had.
"Of course I did." Loki smiled proudly.
"And what did you find out?" Thor stood up, facing the image of Loki.
"I know when there is a change of guard and where the dungeons are." Loki loved to annoy his brother. Thor answered what Loki expected. The Thunder God threw himself against his brother, piercing him completely. Loki looked at him disappointed. "Did you really think I was going to come here? They could capture me too."
"You are the most selfish being I have seen."
"Why, for not being here with you?" Loki laughed. "Stop saying nonsense, we have to talk seriously". Loki changed his expression and sat on the rock that served Thor as a bed. "There is something strange about this elf."
Kaysa began to dive into the bathtub that her maids had prepared for her. Slowly, she felt water caressing her skin. Every time she argued, she felt stunned and lacking in what was happening. Taking a bath used to help her clear her mind and remember what happened.
A murmur of voices from the other side of the door caught her attention. A serious, authoritative voice spoke to one of Kaysa's maids. The girl was trying to avoid the audience at another time.
"I said now." Said Einar entering the room. Kaysa did not move, just opened her eyes and stabbed them into the blue eyes of her trusted man. "My queen." Einar bowed, bowing.
"What happens now?" Kaysa's voice sounded tired.
"I come to ask you, please, to free your prisoner."
"Einar, we've already talked about this."
"Kaysa, I'm trying to avoid a war that we will not win." Einar could not hide the worry in his voice.
"You know that if I release him, he will come to me, what do you think they will do to me?" Kaysa got up and left the tub. Einar looked away from her naked body.
"I think it's time to stop hiding it."
"Not it is not!" Kaysa shouted as she covered her body with her bathrobe. "Einar, he will be free the moment he promises to leave Svartalheim. What happens here is only my business."
"Strange? She's spoiled and immature, she thinks she can do whatever she wants for the simple fact that she's a queen." Thor described Kaysa's attitude with hatred.
"Come on, brother, you were the same with your age."
"In whose name are you?"
"You know, brother." Loki smiled. "On the other hand, why did not Heimdall open the bridge for the royal guard to come and rescue you?"
Thor looked at Loki. Had not thought of that.
"Loki, I need you to investigate what happens to the queen." Thor began giving orders to his brother, which Loki detested. Just when the God of Mischief was going to protest, there were quick steps approaching. The two brothers looked expectantly at the corridor that opened in front of them. Before the person appeared, Loki cast an invisibility spell on himself.
In front of Thor's cell, Kaysa appeared. His face looked agitated and his eyes were lost. Thor approached the bars of his cell, facing the girl in front. Loki could not help but notice her. Her feet were barefoot and her hair was pulled back in a long braid. She was wearing only a bathrobe that showed clearly the gap between her breasts. At that moment, in the mind of Loki began to form different images that involved the queen and not with clothes precisely.
"Do you want to get out of this cell?" Kaysa had a funny tone in her voice. Thor did not say anything. His blue eyes remained riveted on Kaysa's amber eyes. "Of course you want." The girl moved closer to the bars and her voice diminished to a whisper. "However, it will not be so easy for you to achieve it." Kaysa was so close to the brothers that Loki could smell the aroma of orchids that she gave off. Without saying anything else, Kaysa walked away and took the path back to the surface. Before, he stopped to give orders to the guards who guarded the entrance. "I do not want you to lose sight of it, and I do not want Einar to appear around here either.
The night arrived and the whole kingdom of Svartalheim was in a state of rest. Loki wandered around the castle looking for a starting point to start investigating. His searches were always nothing. However, that night something changed.
Loki was following his normal route when he heard a door close in the bedrooms. It was not common for people to leave their rooms at night. Following the sound of the shoes against the stone of the ground, Loki arrived until the stables. There he observed how Kaysa, covered by a brown cloak, got on a horse and left slowly and quietly from there. What are you doing at this time? Loki was so curious that he followed the queen wherever she went.
Kaysa came to a forest clearing with a large lake at its center. She got off her horse and sat on the shore. She took off her shoes and let her feet brush the grass in the forest. Loki watched her in the distance, hidden behind some trees. Kaysa looked into the dense forest, unaware of his presence. She took off her pendant and placed it on the shore of the lake. Slowly it went sinking. Loki watched the scene without understanding anything of what was happening. From the lake, purple flashes began to emerge dancing along the shore to give rise to two anthropomorphic forms. At that moment, a music began to fill the atmosphere and the forms began to dance.
Kaysa watched with sad eyes those forms. Loki could not help feeling increasingly intrigued. Maybe it was the music or his curiosity that made Loki get rid of his invisibility spell. His gaze was hypnotized by those figures and their movements. He was closer and was surprised to notice that the two forms had faces. They were two shadows and, even so, Loki could see the features of a woman and a man in them. Something began to oppress the chest of the God of Mischief, but Loki could not focus on it. He was unable to take his eyes off them.
"Why are you so sad?" Loki asked the shadows. The one who imitated a woman was the one who responded by holding out her hand and inviting him to join her dance. Loki began to reach out his hand trying to reach her. "You're not that far away." He told himself as he was unable to touch the figure's hand. The more he strove to reach her, the greater was the strange feeling in his chest. Loki began to breathe with difficulty walking more and more to reach that woman. When he finally managed to catch her hand, the figures moved away quickly and Loki fell into complete darkness.
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