Norse Born

"Hurry." Emily said reaching down she picked up a small flat blue stone off Autumns chest that Autumn hadn’t noticed before. Emily leaned over the desk and quickly slipped it inside. There seemed to be some kind of writing on the stone but it was gone before Autumn could make it out. Without the stone Autumn could once again move her body and she got to her feet. Emily went over to the door and stuck her head out checking from side to side.

"Follow me." Emily said "And don’t make a sound."

Autumn followed closely behind Emily in the dark library being careful to not make a sound. They passed silent lines of dark books and quickly made their way to the entrance and out the doors that Autumn now realized is where Emily must have found her. They went down a staircase and Emily walked up to a dark classroom door. Emily held a hand up to the door knob there was a brief blue light a click and Emily pushed the door open.

"Where are we going?" Autumn asked as they headed deeper into the class.

"shhhh, I said no talking" Emily replied curtly.

in the back off the class was another door. Emily again put her hand to the handle there was a blue light and the door opened once again. They went into the pitch black room. The door shut behind them and Autumn had one panicked thought of Emily trying to stab her when the light from the glowing magic words illuminated the room. The light seemed to make a bubble around them and then was gone. The light switched on and Emily looked over at Autumn cautiously.

"Okay." Emily said. “You can talk now. No one will be able to hear us."

Autumn looked around. They were in a teacher’s office. The desk was cluttered in unmarked papers. Books lined the shelves. Two chairs, one for the desk the other a padded and straight legged.

"Why are we in here?" Autumn asked. "What is going on? You said you knew what was going on."

"We're in here" Emily began, making it sound like everything was obvious. "Is because we don’t want the librarian knowing about you. Second is that I don't know everything and I'm not going to try and tell you everything that I do. What do you know about Mythology?"

"Ummm..." Autumn said stumped. Autumn was a little taken aback, she was not expecting such a question. "You mean the gods and stories people made up to explain what..." Deep breath, you can keep talking, Autumn told herself. "…happened around them. Like the Greeks."

"yes." Emily said with a smirk. She sat down in one set and indicated that Autumn should take the other. "although you are slightly right we won’t be talking about the Greeks. What do you know about the Norse gods?"

"Noththththing." Autumn stammered. Man she was getting a lot of weird questions. "Why?"

"Because, it concerns you. If I’m right you are a Lif, able to go between worlds. not only that you are a Norse Born and carry the blood of the elder Gods in your veins. Let me tell you a story, the true story of our ancestors."