Chapter 3
"You know, I could walk by myself" Loki said irritatingly as he was laid on the horse hanging like a cloth on his tummy side.
Sigyn gave no heed to prince. She was walking and they were out of asgard now. She took him to another realm through secret pathways.
After sometime Loki started wriggling but Sigyn thought it is because he doesn't want to be tied like that. When she decided to take some rest and went to take Loki from horse's back, she realised he was not at all moving.
She took him down and saw a snake bite on his neck. Loki's joutun blood was saving him but otherwise his skin was turning dark. She hurriedly cut the two spots with dagger and let the blood flow and she went to search a herb for wound. It takes her sometime to found a damp place and she swim through puddle to get that medicated herb.
When she came back he was on his place where she left him. She made a paste of herb and apply it on the wound but before that she heated the dagger with fire and put it on his wound so that it will eliminate impurities on his skin. Sigyn laughed internally at herself and she remind....
FLASHBACK
Sigyn was sleeping in her small room with her sister when a silhouette passed her window curtains. She woke up and opened curtains to see whose there. She found younger prince of asgard walking in his sleep.
Both of them were going higher classes by then and many times prince insulted her directly or indirectly. She thought to leave him be but when she saw him fall from a hill, her breath hitched in her throat. She looked at her little sister, Nana and escaped from house silently.
She stepped down the hill carefully and saw Loki was still walking towards the bay. She tried to stop him but he was not stopping. At last, she pulled him to the ground and his hands came to rest and he started snoring. She sighed relaxingly.
Nana came falling from the hill. 'Whoooooeeeeeeiiiii' and stopped by colliding with Sigyn like a rolling roll. "That's was amazing... we should do it everyday"
Sigyn looked her annoyingly "what are you doing here?"
"What are you doing here?" Little Nana raised her eyebrows two times questioning her. Then she saw prince in her sister's lap. "Haaa!!"
Her eyes widened.
"Isn't that Loki you told me about?"
"Yes"
"You came here to meet him. You told me he insulted you"
"He did. But he was going to fall from this cliff I have saved him"
Five year old little Nana sat near Sigyn. "Why didn't you let him die... we shouldn't save our enemies... he insulted you remember?"
Sigyn pointed on Nana's bare leg from which her pale skin was showing. Nana instantly covered it. "He is not enemy Nana. He is prince of our realm. He insulted me doesn't mean I could let him die when I could save him"
Nana pouted and wrinkles formed on her nose, she was disagreeing with me. Then she looked at him again "he is so beautiful, though, isn't?"
"I will make him marry you, if you like him" she teased.
To her surprise, Nana blushed but then turned serious. "You know we can't marry a prince"
She felt goosebumps on her skin reminding that even her tiny sister also understand how much low they are.
She looked at prince laying on her lap again and thought that her own sister is no less fair than him if she was not wearing this mud on her skin.
Nana moved closer to Sigyn and brushed Loki's hairs side, touching his cheeks more than necessary. Then she said poking her lips "he is so pretty and soft"
She smiled shyly and dug her head more in Sigyn in shame. Sigyn held her with one arm.
"What do we do with him now?"
"I don't know Nana"
Next she remembered how guards took her and her sister and blamed them for kidnapping prince. Loki also claimed he never walks in sleep and Sigyn somehow saved Nana from punishment. Sigyn was forbidden to enter city and to seek education anymore along with somedays imprisonment. Loki was satisfied with that.
Sigyn took her head out from past and saw Loki sleeping with his head on her shoulder. A part of her wanted to shove him away but she didn't want to disturb his sleep. She asked herself 'why she is treating her enemy so nicely? He is the reason Nana was abducted by crooks who took all the fair girls of the village"
Nana was going alone to home when Sigyn insisted Allfather to leave her sister. But her habit of not covering her legs under skirt with mud got terrorists attention and they took her forever. Nana couldn't be able to make it to home.
Sigyn swiftly pulled her shoulder from under his head and went away for crying.
Loki woke up with sudden jerk and looked at crying lady. He still couldn't remember what did he do to her?