Invitation

by Virodeil

*Caught Is Caught Is Cuddled Series* – A young, curious, intrepid scholar, Loki Odinson seeks to know more and more, especially about the knowledge that is forbidden in Asgard. And there is no knowledge that is currently more forbidden than anything about Jötunheim and the red-eyed, blue-skinned, black-clawed giant monsters that inhabit it. So he asks round, including to them.

5. The Hounding Disorientation

Invitation
By Rey

5. The Hounding Disorientation

A day of questing – and questioning myself – has turned into a week, a month, a year, a tenth of a century…. Wherever I go, whatever I do, I cannot escape my morbid curiosity about Jötunheim, and that is the single most frustrating, upsetting, perplexing feeling that I can really live without.

Today is no different.

I meant to just snoop round the entry points to the acurst planet, mapping out my escape routes in advance from as many angles as I could cover.

Well, I managed to visit only three of them before my curiosity got the better of me.

And here I am, on Jötunheim, armed with only three points of egress, garbed in only moderately thick clothes, but feeling as if I were home in a nicely cool temperature.

And even worse, the landscape that I can see till the horizon shows a more beautiful sight – or at least more varied – than the southern end of Midgard. Rolling, snow-layered hills, running streams, squat bushes with lush, fat purplish green little leaves, a sharp white snout peeking out from amidst a particularly thick clump of bushes….

I look round to all directions, seeing but still unable to take in anything, let alone putting everything into a coherent picture.

I don't think I erred in navigating the hidden paths, or in determining where I would end up – where I am right now. But… but… but….