The Goddess of Nothing At All by Cat Rector

Author:Cat Rector
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Catherine Rector
Published: 2021-09-24T20:21:34+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Eight

“When he returned to Asgard, Loki came with an eight-legged foal in tow. That foal was named Sleipnir and was graciously gifted to the Allfather.”

—Asgard Historical Record, Volume 17

Loki’s presence changed everything. Life stopped being quite so difficult. I was no longer the only person to get up when Váli cried in the night, and sometimes I woke in the morning to find them curled up together in the spare bedroom, still asleep. He went to the market and did the laundry and cooked. Suddenly, I had some freedom. To sleep, to visit, to read.

He was everything he had promised he’d be.

And then there was Sleipnir. Neither one of us knew precisely what to do with a baby horse, and especially one that clearly had seidr in his veins. So we did what felt right. We cleared an unused room and made it into a stable, more or less. We tore a hole in the wall and made a barn door to the outside. Filled the room with hay and oats. I felt clueless, so I did the only thing I thought I could; I offered love and affection. Loki patiently trained him not to run indoors and to clomp at the door when he needed to go out.

And every once in a while, I caught the two of them whinnying and huffing, but when I asked Loki about it, he just blushed and asked me not to tell anyone.

It was good. Even with the lingering tension, the hesitation that was under every action between us, life became steady. Normal. We were confused together, tired together, struggling together. And that was all I had ever wanted.

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