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When Darcy is five, she plays in the woods behind her house. She meets a boy she’s never seen before, and invites him to play with her and her friends. He accepts, on the strange condition that she never ask him his name.

When Darcy is six, the boy is her best friend. He doesn’t visit often, but when he does, he feels like home.

When Darcy is seven, curiosity gets the better of her. “Who are you?” she blurts out on one of their evening walks. “Where do you live?”

When she turns around, the boy is gone.

When Darcy is seven, her mother tells her she is getting too old to have an imaginary friend.

When Loki is five, he stumbles upon a hidden passageway to Midgard. There, he meets the girl named Darcy. He visits every day, but time works differently in this realm, and he misses whole weeks and months of her life. She becomes his best friend and his real home. He wants to keep nothing from her, but guards his name and origin out of fear.

When Loki is five, the girl named Darcy asks him for the truth, and he runs from her in panic.

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