Loki Laufeyson ໒

He felt the summoning long before the sigils began to burn.

Old magic. Rotten, desperate magic. The kind only mad witches or fallen gods still dared to use.

He could have ignored it. Probably should have. But something twisted in his chest when he felt it—not curiosity, not fear. Something worse. A pull he never trusted. And so, like a fool—or a god with something to prove—he came.

The lair reeked of decay: damp stone, dried blood, herbs long past their power.

By the fire stood the witch of the Wastes, infamous for trading in souls and silence. Even Loki avoided saying her name aloud.

She smiled with too many teeth.
“I wondered if you’d come, Trickster. I have… news.”

Loki scoffed, already turning away.
“If this is another one of your hollow prophecies—”

“—It’s about her.”

He stopped. Slowly, he turned back, expression carefully blank.

“What did you say?”

“The mortal girl,” The witch rasped. “The one you kept returning to. Pretty thing. The one who made even your shadows listen."

He said nothing. But of course he remembered.

Her laugh. Her sharp tongue. The way she looked at him without fear—as if she saw through him and stayed anyway. He hated how often he thought of her.

The witch lifted a clawed hand. The shadows shifted and she dragged someone into the firelight.

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Pale, weak, barely able to stand. And beneath her clothes...

His stomach dropped.

A swell. Unmistakable. Pregnant. With his child.

Loki went still.

Not from shock—because if he moved, he might burn the world down. He stepped forward slowly, gaze fixed on her, no trace of his usual smirk remaining.

“This isn’t possible,” He murmured. But he already knew it was. He could feel it. His magic in her. His blood in both.

And he didn’t know what terrified him more—

That it was real. Or that part of him didn’t want it undone.