Heimdall had made a point to escort Loki back to the palace, and there Odin had been waiting for him in the throne room with Thor. He had stood from the throne grandiosely and mentioned for them to follow him without a word. He had taken them down somewhere they had never seen before, and when Thor had asked why, Odin simply answered that they were ready. Loki was stoic and silent, radiating patient curiosity and a slight twinge of anticipation.
This was another part of the Weapons Vault that he had never seen, and by the crystal console by the side of the door, he guessed that it was a pocket of time separate from normal time that was actually in a wall. It was lit with flaming torches, and it was completely abandoned, a round room supported by columns of an almost Greek design.
"Not disturbing at all," Loki muttered to himself. Odin drew his attention to a massive pillar in the center of the room. The pillar itself was not strange, but the tablet floating above it gave him a strange tingling up his spine, almost as if it were alive. Thor helped him forward behind Odin, closer to the tablet, and as he drew closer, he could see what was on it. It was absolutely nothing.
"Do you know the meaning of this?" Odin asked.
"Is this your futile attempt of humor? Because if so, I do not get it," he arched his eyebrow. Odin gave him a glare of ice. "I do believe it is a tablet," Loki replied, "you take a chisel and you write on it, or draw pretty pictures if you prefer."
"That is not what I meant and you know it," Odin narrowed his eye, "what is most important is what is written," Loki gave him a cold glare, "or rather what has been erased."
"What has been erased?" Loki shot back, almost sarcastically.
"Ragnarok," was the simple reply.
"But why does the prophesy erase but the tablet still remain?" Thor asked, "Should the tablet have disappeared too?"
Loki grinned, "Good point, Thor," he hobbled forward, "that is a very adorable point.Sometimes your shallowness is so through, it is almost like depth."
"Do you know why this is, Loki?"
"You are asking me?" Loki raised an eyebrow, "you actually value my opinion? I never thought I would see the day."
"I always have," Odin said simply.
He took a deep breath, "Ragnarok happens, it is a fixed point in time, it has to happen. However the prophecy is no longer correct, which is why the tablet is blank, but it is still there," he shrugged.
"How do you know this?"
Loki smiled mysteriously, "everything must come to death."