..4:24 PM...

...Washington D.C..Yes, it is raining outside...

Loki's fingers tap on the chair's arm. He had found Erwyen's place merely by the characterization that Odin had described about him in these old bed time stories.Truth to be told they are still accurate.He had made sure this is the place belonging to a very sick Asgardian.The photographs, oh the rare ones, that he had seen entering this room made Loki certain this is Erwyen's place of rest.

The forest's dark demeanor, the dark waters, the dead grass fresh in his mind.

Had Loki bothered to slip away in the beginning before Elizabeth came back;perhaps that bothersome image wouldn't be in his mind.Loki could still recall getting back up from the brown grass after being headbutted in through the  tunnel by Jake the Elk.He could still recall seeing the waterfall being black as night, and how it alerted him that Erwyen's curse on this forest is a dark form of black magic.How fear stirred down Loki's skin.

Loki wanted Erwyen to feel the fear he had experienced.

He recalled using a black magic summoning spell to summon Elizabeth in the scenery that once had been beautiful and had been tainted by black magic.Loki theorized he could summon Elizabeth using the connection that she shared with the other children.It was for this reason, all to stir fear from Erwyen, that Loki sat in the dark patiently waiting.As Loki did wait he made some of the furniture turn into random furniture.He made a spiral staircase appear down the hallway leading up to a room that never existed in the first place. He made wild rabbits nest in the kitchen long enough to leave a stench that an Asgardian could not stand.

A stench that only Loki could stand. He made the wild rabbits disapear shortly after they served their purpose. He heard the front door swing open, feet trudge in through the threshold,and then the door coming to a loud shut. Loki continues to wait; at first deciding to make his move when Erwyen walked into the living room. To give this sick Asgardian a wake up call.

"Why in the name of Muspleheim does the kitchen smell like bad turd?" Erwyen said, turning on the lights to the kitchen. He staggers back hitting the breakfast counter. "What the--?" All the while covering his nose. "I have to do an extraction to save my den."

Erwyen takes about fifteen minutes to clean his kitchen.

"When I find out who did this, they'll be cursed." Erwyen said.

If only you knew I can't be cursed, Loki thought, I am already cursed.

Erwyen takes out a coffee cup from the cabinets and puts in some recently finished coffee into the cup.

"Good old coffee." Erwyen said, taking in a smell of the coffee.

It smelled nicely, despite the lingering stench.

"Now, tiime to watch some reruns." Erwyen said. "Something to drown out the rain."

Erweyn walks into the living room taking a sip from his coffee cup.

"Erwyen." Loki said, sitting in the chair covered by the dark.

Erwyen looks towards the source of Loki's voice and then a smile curled up on his lips.The room is somewhat lit due to the sunlight coming through the corner of the large window but the corner of the room is dark, the long purple curtains stand in the way of the window. The way he kept  a calm aware composure could have freaked out a trained FBI agent but not Loki.Loki's lagoon green eyes stare right back Erwyen full of fury being contained yet eager to be let out.

"That I am." Erwyen said, with a short laugh. "It has been decades since someone called me by that name."

"Don't joke with me." Loki said, getting up which stopped Erwyen in his tracks.

"Oh, so, my agent didn't send you?" Erwyen asks.The windows shatter all around in the room.  "Uh, who are you?"

Rain steadly came in landing on the rug and parts of the floor not covered by the rug.

"You cursed a forest." Loki said. "I am Loki Odinson."

Erwyen narrows his eyes towards Loki's figure that wasn't been seen.

"A forest does not concern me." Erwyen said, turning away from Loki taking a sip from the coffee cup.

The coffee cup shatters into pieces splattering all over Erwyen.

"It does to me." Loki said.

Erwyen turns towards Loki.

"What forest do you speak about?" Erwyen asks. "I've placed curses on a bunch of forests for their unsanitary environment and cursed them to be that way for centuries to come!" Erwyen's fingers fidget as though anticipating to hold something. "All the magic I do is nothing compared to the master wizards."

"You forgot the curse you placed on a forest in Austin,Texas." Loki said. "You're killing children."

Erwyen turns the lamp light on and there he saw Loki. He jumps back startled by Loki's appearance that reminded him a vampire prince, except better. Erwyen pats on his wet chest taking a few breaths making a few comments to himself how Loki is similar but different to Dracula.Loki's black hair reminded Erwyen of a vast endless sea of shadows that didn't come to an end. Except Loki's hair is curled back so it does come to an end unlike these terrible shadows.

"I don't recall Odin having black hair in his family." Erwyen said.

"I am a surprise." Loki lies, as Erywen turns towards the couch sliding something out of it.We can see it has the shape of a sword. "A surprise that does not take using black magic on a forest to take children away from their parents very lightly."

Erywen takes out a rusty old styled version of an Asgardian blade from the couch.

"Odin did not only leave me unable to have kids." Erwyen said. "He did it to my son, too."

"That is no excuse to take away what isn't yours." Loki said. "And you must undo your mistake."

"I...can't." Erwyen lied. "Whole point of the curse is to not undo it."

Loki sends Erwyen pinned to the wall as he made a cup of tea appear in his own hands and takes a sip from it. Erwyen's weapon landed on the couch fell right over and landed on the comfy seats.

"You know." Loki said, looking up towards Erywen."You would make a great companion with your hunted animals on the wall."

Erwyen's calm demeanor turned into frantic.

"I swear!" Erwyen said.

Loki takes a drink from the tea.

"I am the god of lies." Loki said, lowering his cup.  "And you are lying."

Erywen stares at Loki.

"N--no--no." Erwyen said. "You can't be her."

An amused smile appears on Loki's face.

"I am not a girl." Loki said. "Even if I were; I would make a better example out of you."

Loki takes another sip from the tea cup.

"No, someone else!" Erwyen said, his face steaming. "The goddess of lies." Loki sends a green glowing rug shaped flick at the television turning it to the sports channel lowering the tea cup. "You must be fooling me,Loki." Loki didn't laugh at Erwyen's comment as he changes the channel to fighting robots."I have been fooled by her many times in my past, and, stop messing with the television set!"

Loki laughs, changing the channel again which lands the screen on a Steve Irwin rerun on Animal Planet.

"Who is this she you speak of?" Loki asks.

"Jess." Erwyen said, earning a amused smile from Loki.  "Tell me she didn't get replaced!"

"She died ages ago." Loki said. "I am the better god of lies."

"The son of Odin replaced Jess Feyidottir." Erwyen said. "I will not tell the Asgardian who took my ability to have children away!"

Loki sighs, irritated by Erwyen's lack of cooperation.So he decides to finish of the tea.He drops the tea letting it break once meeting the floor and disappearing after it had shattered into pieces. Loki looks up towards the old man he had considered sick in his mind.

"You will be in pain." Loki said. "Unbearable pain, so terrible you would want to die, you'll feel what all parents should feel about losing their children, the pain you'll feel is not physical but the pain comes from Texas."

"Uh..so?" Erwyen asks.

"Just a warning." Loki said, with a snap of his fingers.

Erwyen screams feeling boiling rock solid pain coming through his body,his legs felt heavy,his mind full of mixed emotions, the pain coming from everywhere in his body sure burned him hardly.

"Please, end it!" Erwyen begs.

"Tell me, how many forests have you placed this curse on?" Loki asks.

"One!" Erwyen lies.

"I can only go so far in helping you." Loki said. "Now comes for the real pain." Loki takes out a china dish from the cabinets.  "Dated 1860, made in Shanghai,and collected..." He tips it to the side squinting at the fine print. "Ah, fake name that doesn't sound English."

"Please, don't!" Erwyen pleads.

Loki throws it over his head and the plate shatters into pieces.

"Another." Loki said.

"No!" Erwyen screams.

"Oh, this was made in the 14th century." Loki said, taking out a small pair of old styled glasses that had various lenses from his Midgardian coat pocket. He got to the smallest lens. "Oh dear." Loki takes off the glasses making them disappear in thin air. "This is a fake." He looks towards Erwyen who is shaking his head. "Nasty business you are in; making fakes."

Loki drops the plate and continues to break all the collectibles.

"Please!" Erwyen cries. "They're antiques!"

Loki is holding fine Chinese chop sticks.

"Why do you need to collect eating utensils?" Loki asks, using them like he was using a puppet."You're sicker than I originally thought you were."

Loki drops the Chinese chop sticks and crunches them into pieces.

All the while Erwyen is in extremely undesirable pain. 

"Please...stop." Erwyen pleads, as Loki held a collectible fake version of a old styled clock. 

"Bore me why." Loki said.

"I-I-I..I..." Erwyen stuttering.

"Thought so." Loki said, dropping the fake antique clock.The fake antique clock breaks into pieces. "Before I go to the bedroom, any last words for your fakes?"

Erwyen could not let this continue.

"A little girl,a midgardian one I presume, she's the reason why you're here." Erwyen said, seeing Loki's hate clear as day. "You wouldn't care if it were just a boy." Erwyen's pain is horrible, yet, he  was pulling through it to make quick deductions. "She did something to get you so willing to come here."  Loki's eyebrows hunched together. "What she say?"

Loki  pauses, as he recalled seeing Elizabeth across from the hideous tree that had two tree branches with twigs stretched out like claws.Loki recalled his boot stepping on the Princess Aurora doll and hearing it crack. Loki had fixed the doll using a strand of magic to fix the plastic part that got colored over easily that it wouldn't be noticeable. Not one person could tell something had happened to the doll. The dirt that once had been on the Princess Aurora was cleared off.In fact Princess Aurora looks brand new; as did her pirate costume changed from a dress to a male pirates attire.

"Elizabeth?" Loki calls out to Elizabeth.

She only stood there, motionless, as if under a spell. 

"You dropped your doll." Loki said, holding out Princess Aurora.

Elizabeth stares at Loki. Elizabeth didn't turn her attention towards his hand. In fact, this felt eerie.

"Elizabeth, say something!" Loki shouts.

The only words that he got back were not those of Elizabeth.

"The forest is dying." Loki said. "Like all the lives lost before her had said; before they died."

"I'll help you." Erwyen said.

"And while we're at that, undo all those curses you placed on those forests." Loki said, walking down the hallway.

The pain had went away.

"Where are you going?" Erwyen yells down the hall.

"To your room." Loki said. "To finish off breaking your antiques, sick man."

There is a small puddle of water in front of the windows, or better yet to say as below the windows, much to Erwyen's horror.