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Entry tags:

loki,
uriel

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Time: August 24, 2000
Place: Uriel's Room
Status: Private (Loki, Uriel) (Complete)
Summary: Loki tells Odin's sister.

It had taken him two days to get himself under control again, but now he had a visit to make. Convinced that one could no longer see that he'd been crying Loki went upstairs and right into Uriel's room without bothering to knock.

He let himself drop onto the bed and squeezed Uriel's rat pushy to his chest so tightly that it looked almost as if he wanted to strangle it.

"Hey, Uriel?" He tried to sound as casual as always, but there was a hint of a catch in his throat.

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Uriel was quite surprised as Loki came to her room uninvited. Well, the uninvited part didn't really surprise her; Loki rarely bothered to even knock leave alone wait to be asked to enter. However, the mere fact that Loki actually came into her room was surprising.

"What is it, Loki?" she asked, watching as the god apparently tried to kill her already not-living plushy. "Is something wrong?" There was a definite aura of wrongness around the god, but she couldn't tell just what it was.

"Have you seen Odin lately?" Loki asked not looking at the not-god.

The plushy was nice and comforting to hold. Maybe he should get one for himself. With all his animal friends gone he needed something to cuddle.

Uriel thought back a while. Now that she truly thought about it, it had been quite a while since she had last seen her one-eyed brother. "No, I can't say I have," she said. "Why so? Did you need him for something?"

"Did he mention anything about where he was going?" Damn, she didn't know!

At this, Uriel frowned. "...He has gone somewhere again?" she asked after a while. "No, he hasn't said anything. He never tells me where he's going. Why do you need him, exactly? Can't it wait until he comes back?"

"That's just it," Loki said. He had to fight down the lump in his throat before he could continue, though.

"Uriel, I don't think he's coming back. He has abandoned us. This ... this is the first time he's ever moved out of a place without telling me where he's going and I can't find him. He's hiding from me."

All colour suddenly left Uriel's face. She stared at Loki in shock. "You... you are kidding, right?" she asked very quietly. However, even as she asked this, she knew that for once, Loki wasn't lying. He was telling the pure, ugly truth.

"Odin has left us behind," she muttered, more to herself than to Loki, trying to wrap her mind around this terrifying fact. "He doesn't need us anymore." Her gaze, which had wandered to the floor for a while, was lifted back to Loki. "What on Earth are we going to do?"

Loki nodded mutely. Damn, maybe he wasn't as in control of himself as he'd thought after all!

"Wait," he said once he trusted his voice again. "He might come back to see your baby. It's family after all. Or he might come back for Shadow. He might even have told Shadow here he went. I'd ask him, if I had any hope that he'd answer me."

"Maybe he will," Uriel said, uncertainly. "I hope he will. But if he doesn't..." Tears filled her eyes. "Why must everybody leave?" she whispered. "Why do I have to lose everybody I care about?" Michael. Pestilence. And now Odin.

She wasn't sure how more times she could handle this.

"It's what people do." Loki shrugged it off. He was quite familiar with that feeling. "That's why you must never depend on anyone too much. Sooner or later they tire of you and leave you behind. I ... I just wish he hadn't taken all the pets. Animals aren't like people. Their friendship's honest."

"We could try to find him via Shadow," he suggested. "Or maybe he isn't shielding against you. Do you think you know him well enough to track him?"

Judeo-Christian not-gods were actually gods who just weren't allowed to call themselves that, so they should have all the same abilities gods did. Right?

"I don't know," Uriel said miserably. "I could find his aura when he was in the Manor, but I don't know if I can track him down if he's too far away. I have never had to find somebody from a long distance. Well, aside from Severing, but then I've had a special instinct guiding me. I probably could, given some practice, but I lack any experience in such things."

She sighed then. "I doubt we'll have any luck with Shadow," she said. "Even if he knows where Odin is, we're probably the last people he will tell that."

"Well, give it a try," Loki pushed. "The worst that can happen is that you don't find him and I promise not to laugh at you in that case. I can't find him either and I've had practise. He's shielding against me and might be against you as well. I'm just hoping that he isn't."

He needed some straws to cling to. If this didn't work, he'd find a way to talk to Shadow.

Uriel nodded mutely, then closed her eyes in concentration. There were several auras in the Manor, most of which she could recognize or at least connect to the proper pantheon or kind of being. However, the familiar feel of Odin's presence was away. Trying to focus on that missing feeling, she reached out, beyond the Manor grounds. Somewhere, in some place out there had to be her brother...

She reached out as far as she could get, trying to find even a whisper of Odin's aura. She found nothing. Well, not exactly nothing; there were several other auras she could detect. But none of them belonged to Odin.

Opening her eyes, she looked at Loki, shaking her head quietly. "I can't find him," she said miserably. "Maybe he's hiding from me or I'm just not good enough, but I can't find a trace of him."

"We'll try again in a few days," Loki decided. "Maybe he'll stop shielding after a while, or maybe he's just out of your range right now."

"And I'll talk to Shadow," he promised after a moment of hesitation. "It might not lead anywhere, but it can't hurt too much to try."

Of course it could hurt. Considering his last encounter with Shadow it probably would, but he still had to do it. He just couldn't give up that hope without trying.

Uriel bit her lip, nodding slowly. "Just try not to get yourself hurt, okay?" she said quietly. "Or at least tell me when and where you're going to talk with him so I can be nearby. I wouldn't want to lose another brother just because of a hotheaded half-god."

"I will," Loki promised, though if her just happened to run into Shadow unexpectedly, he knew he'd take his chance whether Uriel was around or not.

He rolled over and snuggled into Uriel's pillow, rat plushy still held tightly in his arms.

"You have a really comfortable bed, you know." He hadn't been sleeping well since Odin had disappeared.

"I do know that," Uriel said with a faint smile. "I test it every night, after all." She looked at the god. He looked even more weary than usually.

"...You can take a nap on it if you'd like to," she said. "You can even borrow my plushy to guard your sleep." The rat was surprisingly good at guarding one's sleep. It even chased her nightmares away most of the time.

"Mmm ... sounds nice." Loki seemed to already be half asleep.

Uriel walked to the bed and sat down on the edge of it. One hand resting on her belly, she used the other to gently pet the god's bare scalp. It was quite calming, she thought. Even though Odin may have left, at least Loki was there now. And, it appeared, Loki was the only one she had now.

Looking at the rather fragile-looking form of her brother, however, she found herself wondering just how long she would have him.

Loki subconsciously leaned into the touch and began to purr contentedly. For a few hours his world was alright again as reality melted into a dream of Asgard and long lost family and companions.

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