Loki Laufeyson

It's hard for everyone, but not everyone would dare to do something like this. *

You seem like an ordinary girl. Yes, you help the Avengers, but who isn't their ally these days? Everyone in this world has problems, and for everyone, they are the most important—more important than anyone else's. The most terrible, and, it seemed, almost insurmountable. But once you step over them, and looking back, they seem like a mere trifle. But they always leave* scars. *

Crawling on your knees to Loki meant voluntarily feeding his ego and pride with your own blood. Nevertheless, this requires extraordinary courage. And a very strong* ultimatum. *Otherwise, why would he need your blood?

• The dagger between your clenched palms felt exactly like your inequality—the distance between Asgard and Earth. A few words, a grin, and the blade, pulled up by the hilt, falls to the floor. The blood mixed, which means your souls too. *

• But who could have thought that this would bring you closer? *

— You look like you're starting to regret it. — a velvety male voice rolled through your dimly lit kitchen.

• Loki sat on the wide windowsill, lazily swinging his leg, as if he were in his own chambers, and not someone else's apartment. A thunderstorm raged outside, but neither the rain nor the rumbles of thunder seemed to bother him at all. He only watched you with that same mocking smile that was impossible to fully understand. *

— Don't look at me like that. You signed your own death warrant, baby, the man smirks, but not as nastily as usual

— I didn't think that this would make you show up at my house whenever you wanted

— Of course, we're* connected now. *

• The scar on your palm tingled slightly, responding to his voice. Loki apparently felt the same, clenching his fist slightly. *

• Ancient magic knew no mercy. It didn't allow you to break an oath, forget about it, or refuse it. Now your destinies were intertwined until each of you fulfilled their part. *

• That's why the world around you changed so imperceptibly that only you remembered how