a new journal is full of possibilities

[skyti]

 There are few things Atreus loves more then listening to the stories of others and writing them down.  Okay, okay he definitely loves his parents more.  That's a given though.  Also wolves are cool.  He sure does love wolves.  He's quite convinced he'll prove his father wrong one day and teach himself how to turn into one but that day's sadly a long way off probably.

Writing in a journal though! Back to that! He loves writing about his adventures and and every tale he comes across, and he's wanted to write down his findings of the Nexus too... but he thought it'd be appropriate to have a separate journal for here.  There were so many people from so many different worlds! He figures it'll be really easy to fill up a lot of pages really fast.

That's when he discovered the stationary store.  Which is probably one of his favorite places he's found here so far.  Dozens of different journals in different sizes in so many colors with so many pictures on the covers.  And the writing tools! Markers, pens, colored pencils! In any and every color he could possibly imagine! There were other even more ADVANCED materials like stickers an washi tape but he was honestly starting to feel a little overwhelmed.

So he ended up leaving with a truly epic looking journal with a wolf on the cover and a small package of pens in an assortment of colors.  He's investigate the other materials more thoroughly later.

As he walked he flipped open the journal.  The pages were empty and pristine.  There's a bit of a thrill whenever you look at blank pages like that.  What will eventually fill them? He knows the first thing at least.  He selects a pen and writes in runes 'Tales from the Nexus' and smiles to himself.  That feels right.  Not to just... get those tales!

"Excuse me!" he hails a friend or a friendly looking stranger, or just someone INTERESTING looking as they pass by, "Know any good stories?"

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[skyti]

Atreus doesn't say anything as Loki regales him with his tale. He glances up a time or two. And it's not like Loki is suffering the cold judgmental stare of a twelve year old or anything but there's something... something disappointed in his expression at the talk of subjugating the mortals and whatnot. This is the type of god his father would hate. This is the type of god that his mother would tell him tales of as an example of a bad one. This god's name is Loki.

Atreus doesn't like it much. It's a thrilling tale certainly full of adventure but... it feels unsettling all the same.

By the time the story is a an end Atreus has filled up a couple pages with his neat runework, He's added an illustration near the bottom of a page, because he always draws while he writes. It's Loki of course. In a chariot pulled by nothing. While it's certainly not quite right, the silhouette feels oddly accurate. His mother's people had the gift of prophecy and saw visions of the future and sometimes the past. Occasionally Atreus catches glimpses of both.

"You know... a lot of the best stories, whether they're real or some fable someone's made up, there's something to be learned from them. Sometimes I think that a big reason why we remember them. And retell them," he taps his pen on the filled page. Well filled save for a small blank area at the top. A place for a title that he hasn't decided on, "Did you learn anything? From your battle in New York?"

[tr1ckortreat]

Loki's eyes flick down to where Atreus was writing his story and then he spotted the picture to go with it. The chariot being pulled by nothing. The image itself was rather charming and Loki found it compelling that Atreus also illustrated what he heard from others.

"Oh, I do like the drawing. You've got it spot on there."

There was no malic or spit on his voice this time, only truthful appreciation that the boy had actually bothered to put in so much effort on his behalf. It was all rather humbling. The feelings of the past event involving the Chitauri weighed heavily on Loki and even now he still felt pangs of regret.

"What did I learn? That you should not trust those who would so easily turn their back on you."

Once the Chitauri learnt of Loki's failure, they dropped him like a stone. He was no longer useful and if he had not been captured by Thor and placed within the confines of the Asgardian prison, then surely he'd be dead. The Chitauri did not take prisoners.

How could he have been such a fool? The whole stunt revolving around the invasion was for Loki to prove himself against the weakness of Midgard. To prove himself against Thor and Asgard that he was as strong as the Thunderer and would be silent lurking within the shadows no longer. The power of the Tesseract had consumed his very soul almost.