[Hammerbase] Ghost of Asgard Castle

Looking northwest from the courtyard of Asgard Castle, a snow-capped cliff can be seen in the distance standing in the blue-gray light deep in the night sky.On snowy days, milky white gauze floats up and down around it, shining crystal clear light.

As early as one summer when they were young, they discovered that cliff.At that time, it was green all over, with a thin bronze-like edging on the dark brown soil, which stood out against a forest of fir trees.The summer rainstorm has just stopped, and the breeze is full of sweet and fresh breath after the sweltering heat has dissipated.The two teenagers stood under the tree, watching the golden-orange sun break through the light gray broken clouds, and cast a colorful light curtain in the mist around the cliff.

"You can see the sea there too, brother. Perhaps, that is the real 'Rainbow Bridge'." The midsummer sun leaked a string of tiny warm lights from the sapphire-like leaves, falling on Loki's hair and On the shoulders, like a string of flower crowns scattered in the wind, fluttering lightly in mid-air. "We should go and have a look, as an afternoon adventure."

"No, I won't let you go." A feeling of uneasiness suddenly surged in Thor's heart.He didn't even think about it, the words just blurted out.The firm tone made him startled.

Loki originally just said it casually, but Thor's fierce reaction made him puzzled. "Why? Is there anything there?"

"There is nothing there. No, I heard that the mountain god in charge of the mountains and lakes is sleeping there, and it will devour everyone who disturbs its sleep." In embarrassment, Thor made a very poor excuse. "What's more, there are so many places around the castle where you can take risks."

"A very credible reason." Loki narrowed his eyes and smiled narrowly. "I think Vostagg would like this story."

He never mentioned that cliff again, although it has always stood there, and every day it used its green silhouette and the blue sky in summer to form a demure and beautiful background when they played.

So Thor wouldn't be ashamed to tell Loki that all his uneasiness stems from a ridiculous imagination in his childhood-it was born on the night they first met.That day, a black-haired boy in black was standing by the window, his emerald green eyes filled with the reflections of stars.

Since that night, there has been an illusion in his heart: Loki does not belong here, he came to Asgard from that distant and mysterious sea of ​​stars.If he is allowed to find the real "Rainbow Bridge", he will go back to his hometown far away in the clouds through that magical bridge, and he will no longer be by his side.

Although this reason is naive and ridiculous, it is unreasonable, and it is shameful to tell others, but Thor really believed in it at that time.

He didn't want to lose his brother there.

When Thor first steps onto that cliff, he actually finds Loki there.God knows how he dragged his frail body and ran from the castle to this place in the snow.

"You didn't let me come here before. But it's really nothing, because there is really nothing here." Loki's thin body was trembling in the unstoppable cold wind, but his tone was surprisingly calm.Under the winter night sky, his figure was like a pale and pale shadow that almost disappeared into the cloudy sky. "But for some reason, I feel that you can only find me here."

"Come back with me, Loki." The ground under his feet was frozen with ice, and every step he took was accompanied by a wet and slippery touch.Thor had to stop halfway, not only because the ice on the edge of the cliff didn't seem to be strong enough to bear the weight of two people, but also because the invisible gully between them was more obvious than ever. .If Rocky doesn't want to, then he can't go any further.

He stood on the other side of the cliff and stretched out his hand to Loki, but Loki took two steps back.

"I'm still thinking, maybe this is the real Rainbow Bridge." He saw the indifferent smile on Loki's face, with a vain and fanatical smile in his silence.It was a look that a person who was immersed in sleep all day would only show when he looked at reality by chance. "If possible, I would like to end here."

He stretched out his fingers to the void behind them, and there was a flash of water on his cheek.Following his fingers, Thor saw the gigantic wings of the night, fanning the pure white frost that filled the world, enveloping everything in the world.There is their past long gone, their future yet to come, closed between the wings of their wings.The timepieces filled with silver sand and broken gemstones shattered above their heads, and everything turned into dots of starlight in the endless night, and disappeared between their hands that they couldn't hold.Obviously, there is only a distance that can be reached by reaching out.

"No, Loki. There is no... between us!" The body reacted before thinking, Thor stepped forward again, and Loki had no way to retreat.

Now, the two of them stood on the outermost ice layer of the cliff, looking at each other quietly with painful eyes that only each other could understand.Thor's right hand was still firmly stretched forward, while Loki across from him raised something that had been hidden behind him.

"I will hurt you, if you dare to step forward." The other of the pair of daggers was shining dangerously in his right hand.

Same scene as that day.His younger brother, his fragile, proud, crazy and sad brother, was crying and trying to threaten the fool in front of him with words and looks.Back then, that fool ignored his pretentiously fierce words and handed him the murder weapon with his own hands, just because they were brothers.

What about this time?

Thor took another step forward.His hand was very close to the tip of the dagger, so close that even Loki couldn't escape easily.The ice beneath their feet creaked.

Looking down, there is a frozen lake under the cliff, its dark water surface gently catches the drifting frost flowers.Half of the lake surface has solidified into hard ice, and the other half is a corner of the wet night sky and a piece of water-soaked starlight.That is where the god of the forest sleeps.

Things happen in an instant.Before the hug or the sharp blade touched each other, the ice layer on the edge of the cliff couldn't support it and broke.

Thor firmly grasped the remaining soil and stones between the faults with his left hand, and his nails were deeply embedded in the tangled roots of vegetation, so as to support the weight of the two people desperately.His right hand gripped the blade of the dagger so tightly that it rested against his weak knuckles.While he was exerting force, the sharp steel easily cut into his flesh and even touched his bones.

When Thor's blood dripped down Loki's upturned face along the hilt of the dagger, the hot red liquid mixed with the melted snow, leaving bright red streaks on his pale skin. imprint.The wound-like red mark was quickly diluted by his tears, and he fell into the bottomless lake together with the falling ice.

"Let go." There was a strange tranquility in Loki's voice, as if he had just solved an important matter that had troubled his heart for a long time. "Or do you want to spend every winter in hibernation at the bottom of the frozen lake?" He was even in the mood to joke about Thor's past unintentional words.

"No." Thor gritted his teeth, feeling the dagger slip a little more. "I won't let you escape."

As a result, the weight from the right hand side suddenly lightened, and the weak connection between them was easily severed by Loki's hand letting go.He lowered his head, with an exclamation that he couldn't utter.

In the next moment, he thought he saw the most incredible dream.

Awakened from a deep sleep, the God of the Forest wears black scales, and his sturdy body breaks through the ice from the silent lake.Its long teeth are brighter than moonlight, colder than white snow, and the sharp tips of the teeth are raised high, evoking a flashing silver star.And the silver star finally landed on Loki's chest, and soon turned the color of blood.

"No. . . . No, no!" He was finally able to speak, but what else could he say but a cry of despair.

Loki still seemed to have that contented look on his far away face, even though the tears in the corners of his eyes were still wet.

He had to get to his side, as fast as he could.

Before Loki escapes again.