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Loki parks in Doriath for another six years. She manages to make friends with some of the people who have things to do in accelerated perception. The Men who started as babies are full grown. The spell comes along and she refreshes everyone serving as a sorcery backup on a routine basis. She visits people between stints of work; during same she does things that she doesn't have to move around much to do. Writes a memoir. Screws around with decorative illusions. Sleeps, when absolutely necessary.
She's asleep when the quake hits. But not for very long.
purposeful_glory
purposeful_glory
"I got out of the universe on my own," Loki says, "but then I had to go kill an evil god, so yes, that's the Tesseract. I think I might keep it."
einridi
"That's - but - I - you—"
She splutters to a halt, un-hugs Loki, and stands back with her hands still on Loki's shoulders as though afraid that she will vanish again the moment Thor is not personally holding her.
"I think," she says, "you had better start from the beginning."
She splutters to a halt, un-hugs Loki, and stands back with her hands still on Loki's shoulders as though afraid that she will vanish again the moment Thor is not personally holding her.
"I think," she says, "you had better start from the beginning."
purposeful_glory
"I will be happy to. I'd like to tell Sigyn the story too, do you think the Three will be very alarmed if he should disappear abruptly before their eyes?"
purposeful_glory
"Then I suppose he'll have to walk." Thumb to Tesseract. The crackling energy is where she wants it and that does not include it interfering with Thor in any way despite the hands on the shoulders. "Hey Sigyn, c'mere."
einridi
Thor flinches slightly from the crackle, but not even the threat of the Tesseract's wrath is enough to get her to let go of her sister right now.
thevictorious
Sigyn overheard the summons, of course, and makes his way to Frigg's weaving room with all unobtrusive speed.
purposeful_glory
"All right. She can get the abridged version. Maybe without the visual aids."
And now the room is dim and the visual aids are here in the middle of the circle they make, bright and crisp. It's a map of the stupid cylindrical planet. "This is Arda. And this -" Zoom. "Is the Helcaraxë, where I landed quite unexpectedly having expected to appear accompanied on Midgard and not alone on an ice continent. Fortunately, though..."
And she goes through the rest of the story absolutely shameless with the illusions to add depth and display faces and landscapes. Quendi and their rivalries. The Enemy, Angband. The full extent of her sorcery and how she learned it.
She hesitates only a little when she eidetically illustrates her fight with the first Balrog.
And now the room is dim and the visual aids are here in the middle of the circle they make, bright and crisp. It's a map of the stupid cylindrical planet. "This is Arda. And this -" Zoom. "Is the Helcaraxë, where I landed quite unexpectedly having expected to appear accompanied on Midgard and not alone on an ice continent. Fortunately, though..."
And she goes through the rest of the story absolutely shameless with the illusions to add depth and display faces and landscapes. Quendi and their rivalries. The Enemy, Angband. The full extent of her sorcery and how she learned it.
She hesitates only a little when she eidetically illustrates her fight with the first Balrog.
einridi
Thor is hesitant about the illusions for about two seconds before she starts getting into the story, laughing at the funny parts, looking deeply sympathetic about the maudlin gay elves, clapping delightedly when Loki fights something.
purposeful_glory
Illusory small Loki launches herself at the Balrog.
Loki was not looking at herself closely enough at the time to know when she turned blue, but she guesses; her voice goes hushed as the illusion bleeds into cooler colors except for red, red eyes, the narrative and the illusion are both oblivious until the Balrog explodes -
"- and that's when I noticed I'd turned blue."
Loki was not looking at herself closely enough at the time to know when she turned blue, but she guesses; her voice goes hushed as the illusion bleeds into cooler colors except for red, red eyes, the narrative and the illusion are both oblivious until the Balrog explodes -
"- and that's when I noticed I'd turned blue."
einridi
"I - I don't know what I'm thinking," says Thor. "...Besides that the bards should sing of that battle for centuries to come. Well fought, sister."
purposeful_glory
"Oh, it gets better," Loki says. "It gets way better."
And she launches back into the story: Elves are concerned that she has suddenly changed color, she complains about her height and lack of ice powers at them, the narrative resumes.
There's a second Balrog and once its blast radius is clear it gets iced in the face.
And she launches back into the story: Elves are concerned that she has suddenly changed color, she complains about her height and lack of ice powers at them, the narrative resumes.
There's a second Balrog and once its blast radius is clear it gets iced in the face.
purposeful_glory
Oh good. Maitimo was so right.
And that bad guy who tipped her off about the second Balrog, dropping hints that he had Vár - well, she's going to duel the shit out of him now after a brief cutscene where she spars with Huan.
"- and for a few years after that he couldn't assume a physical form without shattering into ice crystals."
And that bad guy who tipped her off about the second Balrog, dropping hints that he had Vár - well, she's going to duel the shit out of him now after a brief cutscene where she spars with Huan.
"- and for a few years after that he couldn't assume a physical form without shattering into ice crystals."
einridi
"Ha!" crows Thor, scooping Loki into another triumphant hug. "A just reward for troubling my sister so!"
purposeful_glory
Loki beams and hugs back and resumes story.
Here's the part where she adopts Men - "they're pretty much exactly like Midgardians without the soul animals, only these ones appeared as adults with a language and not much else" - and moves some Elf helpers in and teaches them some things and looks after them, and Sauron the Perpetually Shattering keeps trying to throw her off by various proxy, orcs, baby orcs, Thuringwethil -
- and the projected date by which he should no longer shatter approaches and she moves all her Men into this city one of the maudlin gay Elves made with Dwarf help (Dwarves: they're great) -
and she learns to teleport, just in time.
The fight is spectacular.
Here's the part where she adopts Men - "they're pretty much exactly like Midgardians without the soul animals, only these ones appeared as adults with a language and not much else" - and moves some Elf helpers in and teaches them some things and looks after them, and Sauron the Perpetually Shattering keeps trying to throw her off by various proxy, orcs, baby orcs, Thuringwethil -
- and the projected date by which he should no longer shatter approaches and she moves all her Men into this city one of the maudlin gay Elves made with Dwarf help (Dwarves: they're great) -
and she learns to teleport, just in time.
The fight is spectacular.
einridi
Thor cheers so much for this fight. She is very enthusiastic about Loki killing Sauron. Loki killing Sauron is extremely good and important.
purposeful_glory
"Yes it did! Although we could have done it sooner if I'd only had better retention of the contents of my physics books!"
And nuking Angband has some scary results (and a maudlin gay Elf hug) and she has to teleport some cities around and the Silmarils are suddenly important and there is Elf politics over them with Doriath (fuck you Elu Thingol her sister gets to see Doriath) and Loki works a whole fuck of a lot on the next piece of her spell and teaches what she's got to an Elf and there's a time stop and an evacuation for everyone who wasn't fenced out of the only safe place -
- finally the story is over.
Morgoth is dead.
Loki smiles at the Tesseract. "And I fixed their stupid cylindrical planet while I was at it, and found empty worlds to put orcs and the Noldor on."
And nuking Angband has some scary results (and a maudlin gay Elf hug) and she has to teleport some cities around and the Silmarils are suddenly important and there is Elf politics over them with Doriath (fuck you Elu Thingol her sister gets to see Doriath) and Loki works a whole fuck of a lot on the next piece of her spell and teaches what she's got to an Elf and there's a time stop and an evacuation for everyone who wasn't fenced out of the only safe place -
- finally the story is over.
Morgoth is dead.
Loki smiles at the Tesseract. "And I fixed their stupid cylindrical planet while I was at it, and found empty worlds to put orcs and the Noldor on."