ᚺᛖᚨᚱᛏ ᛟᚠ ᛗᛁᚾᛖ // 𝑭𝑶𝑳𝑲𝑬𝑺𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑬 .
Now is not a good time to lose control. It crawls up her legs. Wriggles beneath her corporeal husk, twists, hisses, and screams. Yggdrasil exhibits similar behavior, but not like this. Trillions of barbed teeth, stained the color of blood, latch and metastasize. They make a home in those slow-churning lenses that frame each supermassive black hole. Iridescence fades to red. Loki might glean the screech when the very nature of Darkness flares up and bleeds for her brows, her nose, cheeks, temples, and jaw. For a moment, they match. Crimson stone makes to trick the Chaos God’s eyes: project a mirror that he may or may not be able to crush with a fist. She makes to. Ere the glass maw behind her becomes a voracious aperture and claims him once again, the Abyss swings a closed fist back and bashes the glass.
A thick, oily shimmer barricades their infant’s cradle. He wakes, red eyes as wide as his father’s at the glass mobile orbiting him. Each black shard stains scarlet and further fragments. It’s no less sharp. The red blizzard becomes powdery as it infiltrates their bower. This vulgar display’s catalyst clenches a magma-veined fist and snaps her teeth as it’s slammed to her chest. Dead stars regard Loki once again, unblinking and starved. Ether gazes through Loki, past that beautiful decorative mantle he hides his true self behind: scarred, rotten, large red eyes blown white and lit from within. Liquid death pumps through his veins. He does not breathe, yet she lays a cracked hand on his chest as if it’ll restore it to him. That broken murmur of his heart will never leave. Its patter contends with the serpentine screeches resounding in her head. Broken glass crafts a mine field around them. One misstep and he’s impaled.
Those deep red rings strobe and thicken. A glitch rearranges her limbs, throws her facial features around in a thoughtless splatter, and sends her reeling — laughter strikes: pitchy and so bizarrely out of character that it stirs Ingmar. Dark matter rips from her vise, yet cannot leave the Aether’s perimeter. Baring teeth fails to dispel the urge to cough, to paw at her own face and rid it of gloom as he looks on. Fronting an empty simper, she signs, “So lonely - You will die for it.” Look his murderer in the eye. Her runny nose touches her shoulder to catch the fizzy, blood-curdling giggle that kills the artificial thoracic cavity she’d shaped and returns its dark igneous rock foundations. “This, then,” motions are flint-sharp, making her syrupy demeanor lose all appeal. Teeth sharper than any blade flash. Aether slithers around each event horizon. Sparks jump from her forearms as she inclines her chin as if it’ll make her taller and signs, “Is it me you love - Or what could have been.”
Laughter claws at the inside of his skull, a canvas carved to irreparable ridges by the intangible claws of the many ghosts she's bespattered their bower with. Though unseen and unreachable, each spectre has teeth, and whetted tines of her design, or whatever burst of madness he's caused. Chaos' harbinger would almost buckle beneath the weight of this specific disorder, targeted and bitter, fury turned upon him. By being his doing it no less softens each blow as the wind whips at his cheeks and whetted shards latch against the roots of his hair. Like bared canines each shard makes its attempt to burrow beneath his scalp. Be it hungry it will starve, for he's lost his cognition.
Ingmar stirs to his left, across a room of swathed shadow congealed like blood with blinding red light, though the boy doesn't cry out. His short arms cannot allow him to reach any kaleidoscopic spangle he reaches for above his crib, yet with tired, yearning eyes he tries nonetheless. The boy fears not what he doesn't understand yet knows is begotten by his mother. Loki, however, has been tossed into a mire far too recognisable. Though Jane has no voice her words are no less cutting, and reach him just as well as if he were leafing through her consciousness. He knows not what he'd find were he to make an attempt now. What she gives him freely carves well enough.
And he does separate, unfolding their hand and straightening his legs. He has always cast a shadow over her, though now none appears. He has no reflection in any of those scattered shards, and hardly feels when one impales the sole of his foot. Jötnar hide is nigh-impenetrable lest she will it. Loki's made malleable to the scene. “ I love you. ” To speak up over the din in his head is impossible, though she can read his lips. “ I have loved you, I will love you, ” Instead of reaching across chaotic space for her, Loki's fist clenches close to his chest. He holds nothing, he affects nothing. Not the turn of her head nor the hardening of her stare, the wild sparks that erupt from her in the dark. In solitude, as she well knows, he remains. “ I always love you. And always you question it! ”