Editing AfterRagnarok:The Mythic (section)

== Loki #65 ==

In the angular space where three ancient school buses meet, yellow paint scored and blasted by the elements, a skald is telling of the end of the world. A pale woman, veiled, layered in furs, she sways as she lists the gods and their deaths.

Fenrir breaks free and kills Odin. Thor and the Midgard Serpent kill each other. Loki turns on the Aesir and he and Heimdall kill each other. Surtr sets Asgard and Bifrost on fire and kills Freyr. 

The Nine Worlds burn, and plunge into boiling sea.

"All this has gone before," she says, and her head raises as you pass. Beneath the veil, her eyes glitter. "All this is yet to come."

She has a modest audience, less than a dozen. The desperate, the hopeless, the mad. But they sway in time, and moan as the verses pour from her lips, and something in their eyes is fire.

On and through, and the day grows colder still. There's a frost in the air now, on the lips, on the tongue. Bokkr wraps his face, breath freezing on the thin cloth of a child's scarf adorned with a raging green jötunn. Fenrir just snorts, but ice crystals glitter in his beard.