Thanks to the mead with ambrosia, Loki and Freyja recovered completely. The goddess of fertility, however, began to feel terribly cold and suffer frostbite, since her totema had been destroyed and she was in outer space.
The goddess curled up just as her brother, Freyr, who once again looked as though he were wearing his boar-shaped totema, covered her with a blanket so the goddess would not show her nakedness.
“We’d better get outta here, little sister ♪” the god of fertility said to his sister while embracing her.
Freyja rested against her brother’s chest.
“Wait, brother. There’s something I wanna do before I leave,” the blond goddess said.
Then Freyja separated herself from her brother’s arms and signaled to Loki, who was keeping himself apart from the group. The god understood that she wanted him to follow her and agreed.
“Loki, can you use some magic so I don’t turn into a block of ice?” Freyja asked Loki.
“I can, but why are you so damn set on staying here?” the Norse god asked.
Freyja then pointed toward Yggdrasil’s roots. The goddess was trembling from the cold, and her arm was completely covered in frost.
“I wanna see that damn bitch,” Freyja said.
All the gods were frightened by the goddess’s words. No one had wanted to approach the prison that had once been in Jotunheumr, which had also been Loki’s old prison.
The dark Norse god grimaced with displeasure just thinking that he would have to see the place where he had been locked away for a thousand years. However, he agreed.
“Little sister,” Freyr protested. “That place is very dangerous, because that little goddess from Lel keeps trying to escape, and she grows stronger with every day that passes ♪”
“I do not recommend that you approach either, Freyja,” Heimdall added. “We do not know how long those dimensional shields will withstand having her inside.”
“Besides, she might track the path of our Bifrost bridge and follow us,” Thrúd said.
Then Tyr approached Freyja and smiled with devotion.
“Asgard has become a nest of cowards since Thor died, but I will accompany you,” he said.
Freyja, still shivering from the cold, thanked him. Then Loki enclosed Freyja in an ice shield so she would stop suffering from the low temperatures that existed in space.
“Little sister, while you come back, I’ll take your little totema to Nidavllir so they can repair it for you ♪” Freyr said.
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“My duty is to take both of you to Asgard, so I shall remain here and wait for you,” Heimdall said without any emotion.
Freyja then said goodbye to her brother and headed toward the illusion of Yggdrasil in outer space. Since she had no totema, her movement was very slow, so Tyr took her by the arm and decided to carry her. Loki then followed them both.
Slowly descending along Yggdrasil’s enormous illusory trunk, they reached the place where Jotunheumr was supposed to be. Gigantic phantom mountains were drawn across the environment, while eternal waterfalls fed the rivers in the region. Although all of it was nothing more than an illusion made to deceive Lel.
At the back of that enormous mountain range, in a deep, dark valley, there was a hole in the ground that looked like a crater made by a meteorite. The trees here seemed dead, and an extremely powerful presence could be felt, even though that energy should not have been perceptible, blocked as it was by the thousands of layers of the dimensional shield.
This valley, unlike everything seen before, was completely solid, since it was the only thing that had remained floating in space. Inside the crater, Anat was seated in the center of the small prison. The goddess had her head lowered and sat with an arrogant expression.
The dimensional walls trembled as though there were an earthquake. Although the goddess made no observable movement, the truth was that she was using her invisible cuts to carve through the prison walls.
Beside Anat was Thor’s corpse. Freyja could see that the goddess had practiced cannibalism on his body, leaving only the bones and part of his arms and head, which she had not yet digested. There were also traces of a campfire where the goddess had cooked pieces of the thunder god’s body. Beside it was also a jar full of blood, which she had extracted from Thor’s body. The goddess’s lips were still stained with that liquid.
When Freyja saw this, she could not help feeling enormous revulsion. Merely thinking that her comrade-in-arms had met such a dreadful end made her feel nauseated and hateful.
“Well, Norse goddess of fertility. We never had the chance to chat before,” Anat said just as she lifted her face to meet that of a nervous Freyja.
“How is it possible that her voice can be heard all the way here despite the thousands of dimensional shields?” Loki asked nervously.
“In fact, her tremendous power can be felt as well,” Tyr added. “I believe it is only a matter of days before she can escape this prison.”
Anat smiled cynically.
“No prison can hold me, least of all a prison built by stupid barbarians like you,” she said.
Then the goddess turned to look at Loki and smiled.
“Although I must congratulate you for making that idiot Baalat run away,” the Phoenician goddess said. “She is always overconfident because she believes her ability, the perfect cut, is infallible.”
“I’m sorry to tell you, but Baalat left believing you weren’t here anymore,” Freyja interrupted with a confident expression.
“I do not need that fool to leave this place,” Anat replied. “And when I do, I will go directly to kill every last one of you.”
“You will not find Yggdrasil so easily,” Tyr threatened the goddess.
“Yggdrasil? Who cares about that shitty kingdom?” the Phoenician goddess replied.
Then she lifted her hand and pointed at Freyja.
“I am speaking of you, you stupid gods of Orniskem.”
Freyja felt a horrible terror run down her back. She knew it had been only luck that had driven Baalat away, and that Baalat’s power did not compare to Anat’s. This time, there would be no luck to lock the goddess away again as had happened now. The truth was that Anat was becoming stronger with every passing second.
“I guessed correctly that you two became members of Orniskem, did I not?” Anat asked arrogantly, looking directly at Loki and Freyja.
Both preferred to say nothing.
“I assume you became stronger in Vinland, and now you believe you can defeat Olympus, where Athena is being held captive,” Anat declared arrogantly once more.
Freyja and Loki again said nothing.
“Do not worry. Inside Olympus, there is a man… no, he is more like a beast,” Anat continued explaining. “He will become the wall you will never be able to overcome, no matter how hard you try.”