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Loki is not technically banished. This is just - giving her mother space. To think. About what to do with her wayward child. She will be called back in a few years for a more permanent decision. Midgard's nice enough, anyway, and Sigyn's coming along.
The Bifrost lights up in all its colors and -
- this might be Midgard, but it is not a part of Midgard she ever saw and not the place she was expecting to be dropped, and there is no Sigyn with her.
She holds Lævateinn ready as a glaive. Maybe her mother feared her sorcery and thought she'd best be sent somewhere deadly under the impression she was meant to survive the trip -
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Good, good. Then she can go nice and fast without too much course-correction and no pain, erasing the line behind her as she travels.
She stops outside the forest, puts her dagger away, and is not sure whether to shout into the trees or wait to be noticed or what.
She stops outside the forest, puts her dagger away, and is not sure whether to shout into the trees or wait to be noticed or what.
After about ten minutes, someone pops out again. "Loki Odinsdottir. Would you like me to convey another message to our King and Queen?"
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"I was hoping to take them up on the offer to remain here a little while and discuss sorcery and its applications, and I would also like to know more about where the locals are living and where it might be appropriate for other populations to settle without bothering anyone."
After a minute she comes back. "You should not get lost so readily this time, child. You can follow your own footprints."
The guard points at the ground. There are gold bellflowers sprouting there. "This is where you came through last time," she says, and then vanishes into the trees again.
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"Oh," says Loki to either no one or dozens of sneaky Quendi, and she follows her flowers. How does that work? Well, they're pretty.
They guide her several miles through the forest before she starts to recognize landmarks: meadows, waterfalls.
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It's a pleasant walk. She takes it briskly, pleasant though the scenery is; she'd like to get some research (and her map of local populations, if they'll give her one of those) in today if the Queen or any other reasonable sorcerous assistants are available.
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Hello, the gates of Menegroth. Are they invitingly open or is she supposed to stand around or what?
There's a group of children - they look like miniature adults, even moreso than Asgardian children, and are extraordinarily solemn for being about three feet tall - filing through a hallway. There are musicians playing the Finwë memorial song still.
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That is a long song. Maybe she should come back in a year. Or three hundred. Is the throne room open and are the thrones occupied?
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...Do they react to her presence? Or maybe Lúthien's around and she can beg an etiquette lesson.
Thingol notices her and his face changes slightly, not in a particularly friendly or unfriendly way. Melian does not move at all; she might have been replaced by an exquisitely pretty statue.
"It's because she's a Maia," Lúthien says over her shoulder, "when distracted she doesn't breathe and she almost never does facial expressions if she's not formally having an audience, which rather prompts her to stay on top of it. I used to tease her about it, growing up."
"It's because she's a Maia," Lúthien says over her shoulder, "when distracted she doesn't breathe and she almost never does facial expressions if she's not formally having an audience, which rather prompts her to stay on top of it. I used to tease her about it, growing up."
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Loki turns, gratefully. "I see. I confess I'm not sure how - or whether - to broach the topic of sorcery or anything else while she's - distracted."
"In general people who want an audience rather gather around and wait for her to remember us - it can be anything between hours and weeks - and Father does most of the work alone, and then when she comes back she'll handle everything tirelessly until the whole backlog is dealt with and everyone feels it was worth the wait.
It didn't used to be like this - she used to never forget for longer than a few minutes - but with the land so dangerous she puts more and more of herself into protecting it. If you need something from Father you can ask now, or after he's done settling this -" she gestures at the throne, though as far as Loki can hear there's no conversation ongoing - "but you'll have to wait for her to have the energy for us, if it's sorcery you want advice on."
It didn't used to be like this - she used to never forget for longer than a few minutes - but with the land so dangerous she puts more and more of herself into protecting it. If you need something from Father you can ask now, or after he's done settling this -" she gestures at the throne, though as far as Loki can hear there's no conversation ongoing - "but you'll have to wait for her to have the energy for us, if it's sorcery you want advice on."