It is said her husband walks the boughs of Yggdrasil
with incredible ease. The limbs of the great tree do
bend to his flickering will, as if frightened by the fire
that burns in his bones. Sigyn doesn't know this man,
this frightening, silvertongued creature that can slide
from realm to realm with little care and on a whim.
But she does know a man who has spent many years
learning the way to open doors to great halls that not
every god or goddess can access. It took Sigyn more
time than she liked to admit to learn even an inkling
of this seidr, this magic supposedly better suited for
her slim fingers and womanly intuition. (A silly notion,
but one she never openly argued against.)
It's how she ends up in the great, cavernous halls of
Helheim, only weeks after their marriage. She walks
slowly, as if worried a wrong step might cause her to
walk on the sacred bones of the dead that make their
second home here. Her chin is held high despite this,
but only because she is drawn in to the high vaulted
ceilings of this place built by the dead.
Only when she is sure she is being watched does she
speak.
"I come from Asgard, seeking an audience with the
Queen of this realm," her voice catches on the stones
and repeats last words like they are ghosts, fading from
existence.