After a restless night, I woke up and looked into Father's room. He was not there. I woke up Yarnia and we stuck down and looked for him. We finally found him and he was getting ready for something. "What are you doing?" Yarnia asked. "I am going to be acting as king until Odin awakens." "Oh." I said. I was now a princess, even if for a short time. After a day of following Father around and marveling at Father's new throne we went to bed. As I drifted to sleep I thought once more about my heritage. I woke with a start. For a second I wondered why I was awake at all until I heard it. A soft patter of footsteps. A looked at Yarnia and saw that she was awake. We snuck into Father's room. It was dark but we could see Father asleep in the bed. We could also see a shadow detach itself from the wall and head towards Father with a knife. I quickly looked at Yarnia, she was white with fear, but she nodded. But right before we could do anything the intruder plunged his knife downward. I acted purely on instinct. I thrust out my hand and stopped the knife with magic while launching a swift attack and tore part of the roof down on top of the attacker's head. He was trapped under the pieces of stone. As I sank to the floor in exhaustion with black spots dancing through my vision I saw Yarnia launch herself at another person. Of course there had to be two, just my luck. As I gasped for breath I saw that Father was scrambling upright in alarm. To my left out of my peripheral vision I saw Yarnia conjure a dagger and slash at the intruded catching him on the arm. The man ran to his fallen companion, and started dragging him away. But not before I grabbed one of his boots. A flash of pain across my face and the next thing I knew I was sprawled on the ground, he had kicked me. I held my nose which was bleeding and tried to get up but, I was too exhausted and collapsed back down. I felt something in my hand and stuffed the paper in my nightgown for later inspection. Yarnia entered my vision and looked at me with concern. She grabbed my hand and hauled me up. The lights flickered on and Father was staring at us worriedly. "Are you alright?" he asked me. "I think so, who were they?" I asked. "I don't know." he said. "Here let me take care of that." He said referring to my nose and with a wave of his hand he healed it. "Thank you." I said. Father was quiet for a minute before he said, "I want to thank you for what you did tonight, you have saved my life, but I want to know what you saw before I awoke." "Ok, we were awakened by the sound of footsteps from your room." started Yarnia "We crept into it and we saw a person with a knife standing over your bed." Yarnia interrupted, "And then that man tried to stab you and Guin stopped him with magic and tore down part of the ceiling!" Father looked at me sharply, "Now where did you learn how to do a thing like that?" I turned red. "I saw you tear down the door to Uncle Thor's room once." I said sheepishly. "Ah." he said. I continued, "Then another man came and Yarnia conjured a knife and fought him. Then they left and kicked me in the face when I tried to stop them." "Did either of you see their faces?" "No, it was too dark." I said. "I did," Yarnia said in a quiet voice, "it was awful, the second man had scars all over his face, he did not look human." He sat in silence for a while then said, "Where did you learn how fight like that?" he asked. "We..er.. sometime watch you spar with Uncle Thor." "Well I think we need to get some rest and I am just thankful that either of you did not get hurt." That signaled the end of the talk. We walked to our room and got into our bed. But then with mutual consent Yarnia and I walked back into Father's room and climbed into his bed. The last thought I had on my mind was that, I would stick with Father though anything.

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So...yes, they climb in bed with Loki (Not like that, just incase you think that I hope you don't). They are really close to him, so they aren't afraid to do that. He is their role model, and like you just read, they will do anything.