Echo
"Sigyn!" Loki shouts into the Void after the falling body being dragged away from him, his hand outstretched as one holds tight to the All-Father's scepter.
He panics as he feels himself moving, Thor climbing to stand on what is left of the Bifrost and kneeling down and grabbing him around the middle, pulling him to safety.
"No! No! Thor, we have to go! We have to save her!"
His voice is strained as he can hardly breathe his tears falling quickly down his face.
"We will do all we can to save Sigyn, brother." Thor promises. He turns to look at his father who bows his head and swings around to walk the other way, back down the ruined Rainbow Bridge and towards the Citadel.
Thor can hardly speak as he turns back to Loki, willing his own tears to stay hidden from his broken brother.
"I swear Loki," Thor whispers, "I will find her if it is the last thing I do."
"Please." Gasps Loki, "Please, brother. I need her. She is all I have."
Thor forgets to hide his emotions as tears begin to run down his face, "I know."
Loki spends most of his time after Sigyn's fall at the end of the Bifrost with his long legs curled under him, waiting for his lady to return. Heimdall makes sure the second-hand prince does not leap, following in the footsteps of the young mix-blooded creature that was only just realized to be much more important to the green and gold man than any have ever before come to understand.
"Do you see her, Heimdall?" Loki rasps, he has not had anything to eat or drink since his fateful attempt to destroy Jotunheimr out of anger and resentment almost one month before.
Heimdall sighs, and searches once more, "I see nothing, Prince Loki. As I have seen nothing since you first asked me if I did."
"But that is impossible, Gatekeeper." Loki argues, his words barely above a hoarse whisper, "Sigyn has no magic to shield herself from you, alive or dead and you can see the bodies of the dead. Why can you not see her?"
"I do not know the answers to your questions, Prince Loki. But, know this, I will not cease in my search until I have found your Lady Sigyn."
"Do not." Loki says.
"Do not what? Prince Loki."
"She is neither mine nor is she a Lady, so you should call her by no such titles. She is not even supposed to be here, in Asgard. Yet, my apparent need for her has sealed her fate. I am the cause of this. I am the evil that plagues this land. Asgard has always been right to fear me."
"Do not say such things, my son." Says a familiar voice from behind the two men and Loki turns to see the loving face of his mother.
"My Queen." Says Heimdall, bowing before the woman in question. She pays no mind though, instead choosing to look over her youngest son.
"Oh, my Loki." Whispers Frigga, "You must not lose faith that your life will not turn around. You will not always be so unhappy of your place in the Realms. I love you. Your family loves you."
"But mother." Loki cries, "Mother, why does it hurt?"
"It is the way of things, Loki."
"Than the way of things are wrong." He says, "I want her back mother. I need Sigyn."
"I do not know how to comfort you in this, we are doing all that we can."
"No, I can do more!" Loki screams, standing up on shaking legs, "I will do more!" And, with these words, Loki allows himself to fall backwards from the end of the ruined Bridge, giving himself up to the Void.