Auden’s Blessing
Inside the palace, lamps were lit one after another, their glow joining with the snowlight and the moonlight outside, stretching toward the horizon like a long silver river across the vast heavens.
We had just sworn our vows at the altar, and Freyr, acting as the presiding high priest, had placed the binding of the oath upon us. It was a rather powerful spell: if either of the betrothed were to be unfaithful, the other would immediately know, and a resonance would be triggered. In other words, if Loki were ever to fool around with another woman in the future, images of them together would appear in my mind. In the next few seconds, if I flew into a rage or even hurt myself, Loki would do the