deceived, by illusion

[purposeful_glory]

Sigyn goes on hanging around the Three and Thor and Loki. Fandral, charmed in spite of her vocal disgruntlement, doesn't go so far as to kick him out of bed for her embarrassment, let alone insist on kicking him out of their practices; Hogun is too quiet to bother objecting if she harbors negative opinions; Volstagg is put off but not enough to throw her weight behind her objections. Thor considers his fighting respectable enough, and Loki doesn't mind the addition at all.

Loki wants to be queen one day and has not neglected learning to talk to people, learning the names of important sorts - but she has neglected assembling close friends (why should she do such a thing when she can tell them so little about herself?), and piggybacks on Thor's. So she is invited along when Thor decides she wants to go hunting for giant aurochs and thereby enjoy the supposedly superior flavor of fresh-killed beef one has personally killed.

And when Sigyn asks if he can come, well, nobody contradicts Thor when she says "Very well," even though this follows a longish pause.

Aurochs, come out, come out, wherever you are.

Comments

[purposeful_glory]

"A healing spell it is, then. They all have some similar foundations - all my spells rely on knowing how people ought to be shaped, in the full versions - and healing is principally just insisiting that whoever it is cast on be shaped that way and not another." She tips a few notebooks into her hand and brings them back to bed.

They are full of densely packed symbols. Two hundred and nine of them.

[thevictorious]

"Less maddening than the other way around," is his conclusion. "Maybe not quite unmaddening enough. What exactly was it that you touched, to get all this?"

[purposeful_glory]

"The Tesseract. I doubt very much you can expect the same result. If it always did that then it would not be so forbidden."

[thevictorious]

"I don't expect the same result. I do expect that there must be some reason why it taught you the sorcerous alphabet instead of doing whatever it normally does to people, and I wonder if it is possible to find out what that reason is."

[purposeful_glory]

"I'm not sure. I'm lucky that no one listened to me when I said I was fine and all it did was tell me things and don't care to jeopardize that success."

[thevictorious]

"Well. I'll think about it. And I'll think about how to learn the alphabet and whether it will be worth the number of centuries I'd have to put into it."

[purposeful_glory]

"You could do more with the spells than I've managed."

[thevictorious]

"True. But there's a way I get with certain kinds of puzzle, and a way I get when I spend too long doing just one thing, and I would rather not be caught between the two for a very long time."

[purposeful_glory]

"Ah. I don't have that problem."

[thevictorious]

"It doesn't seem to be a usual one, but I am not a usual person."

[purposeful_glory]

"I've noticed that."

[thevictorious]

"What gave me away?"

[purposeful_glory]

This gets kisses instead of an answer. It's that kind of question.

[thevictorious]

Kisses! How delightful.