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Episode #12 – Norse Mythology

I entered my apartment laughing really hard. I couldn't stop myself. I had to hold it in when I was at the library because you have to be quiet in there, and nobody would have understood anyway. I knew Loki would though. He greeted me at the door and looked at me questioningly.

"What are you laughing at?" he asked. I hung my bag up on the hook next to my door and held a large brown book in front of Loki.

"I read the most hilarious book about you! You have to read it!" I exclaimed, trying to stop laughing.

"Me? It's about me?" Loki took the book and looked at it. "What do mortals know of me?"

"Apparently nothing of fact," I said. "They're Norse myths about you and your family, and some of them are really funny!" Loki sat at the kitchen counter and opened the book. I followed him.

"Here, read this page," I said, turning to page 53. "Loki, the trickster god, was known for mating with humans, animals, and rocks and trees!"

"What?! No, that is revolting! How would one even mate with a rock?"

"Look, and it says here that you have a bunch of kids! An eight-legged horse named Sleipnir, a wolf named Fenrir, a snake named…Jor-man…gen-der? I don't know. And a half dead girl named Hel. Loki, you gave birth to Hell?"

"No! None of this ever happened! I have never mated with anything but an attractive woman, and I most certainly do not have any children! And even if I did, they would be normal and powerful and adorable. Who wrote this?"

"It's just old myths. I got it at the library."

"Look here!" Loki exclaimed. "I did not shape shift into an elderly woman! And it states repeatedly that I get rejected by everyone I know! What?"

"Not her," I said, pointing at a painting of a woman standing over Loki with a bowl. "Sigyn. She was your wife apparently, and it says she held a bowl over your head so you wouldn't get poisoned by that snake."

"Was that my snake? Jormungandr?"

"I don't know."

"Poisoned by my own son," Loki said dramatically. "This is rubbish. Take me to this 'library'. I want to see what more they have written." I thought about it.

"Okay," I said. "But in the library, you have to be quiet. You can only whisper."

"Why?"

"I don't know; it's just the rule. People are reading I guess."

"Alright," Loki said, and I drove him to the library. Loki looked around in wonder when we arrived. He marveled at the books we had and all the people sitting around in silence. He whispered: "We have these in Asgard. But they are bigger and our books are different. Also, there are no people around with eccentric hats."

"Those are headphones," I replied. "They let you hear things without anybody else hearing them." Loki looked very confused. "I'll teach you another day."

I led him to the mythology section and we looked through the books. I pulled one out titled, Loki & Odin: Blood Brothers, and showed it to Loki. He furrowed his brow.

"Odin and I never mixed our blood. Thor is my brother, not Odin! Mortals are so ignorant." I gave him a look. "Oh, but not you darling." I smiled at him and he looked through another book.

"Oh my God!" he whispered. "They claim that the gods tied me up with the innards of my own son! …Gross!" Loki then turned around and walked toward the librarian. Dang it; I knew he was going to talk to her about the contents of the book. I decided it was best not to get involved, and pretend I wasn't with him. That sounds mean, but really; he'd gotten me in trouble enough times, he needed to take one for the team. I pretended to look at the books nonchalantly, while I secretly watched Loki.

Soon everyone's eyes were on Loki, because he began shouting.

"This information is false, and you Midgardians present it as truth! It is slander, and I order such a thing to be destroyed! I only mate with women!" Mothers then covered their children's ears and everybody yelled "Shh!" at Loki. He turned toward them.

"I will destroy you all! You are liars!" One girl stood up.

"Are you saying that you are Loki, god of Asgard?" Loki threw his hands out in front of him.

"YES. You mortals are utterly hopeless."

"What hospital did you escape from, sweetie?" asked the librarian. Loki turned to her.

"What?" I had to intervene now. They were going to put him in the loony bin. I rushed over to the librarian's desk.

"Okay Joe, time to go back to your room," I said, patting Loki's back. I turned to the people. "Sorry, he's a little off. His parents were murdered." I escorted Loki out of the library, and when we got outside I glared at him.

"Don't look at me like that Amelia," he said. "I was just trying to set things right. My reputation has taken a severe blow."

"Loki, they thought you were crazy. Do you always have to make a scene wherever you go?" Loki had his nose in the book again; not listening to me.

"It says that I ate a woman's heart! Why am I so disgusting in mortal literature? And look, apparently when I writhed in pain, something called an 'earthquake' happened." I slapped Loki across the face. Hard.

"Loki, you aren't listening, I—" Suddenly I felt the ground shake beneath me as Loki yelled, "Ow!" I looked down, and when it stopped, I realized what Loki had just said.

Loki and I looked up at each other slowly, with bewildered looks on our faces. A silence passed between us.

"Horse-mother," I said playfully. Loki scowled.

"It was just that one thing!"