( stargazing )

[absurdities]

the stargazing meme

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prompts

one → meteor shower you just saw a falling star! and another! make a wish!
two → aliens what was that? was that really? omg no way a ufo!
three → lunar eclipse you've been sitting out for hours, waiting for this. it's so cool!
four → comet does it move fast or slow? either way, it's amazing.
five → full moon the moon is so huge! just don't look too long, it's really bright too.
six → star dust anything can happen in space. make up your own plot!
seven → solar eclipse this might be happening in the middle of the day!
eight → planet sighting is that a new star? nope, just a neighbor in the solar system!
nine → constellations do you know the stories behind these odd patterns?
ten → deep space normal stargazing isn't that much fun. you got a telescope!

Comments

Loki | MCU

[justabitoffun]

1; sometime pre-films

[belovedone]

[Even for beings as long-lived as their race, the sight of golden and silver stars streaking across the evening sky still holds some sense of wonder.

Or so Frigga feels. She stands out on a stone balcony above a parapet set high over the palace. Hands resting on the edge of the wall, her loosely-bound hair streaming back across her shoulders as her head tilts up, she watches the heavens above with a smile.

It is, she thinks, a magnificent sight. One she would rather share, and she waits for another to join her. She sent a servant with a message asking for her younger son to come and find her. It's something he would appreciate, and anyway she thinks perhaps it's been too long since they had a moment alone.]

[justabitoffun]

[It is nearly never that Loki ignores a summoning from his mother and, despite his enthrallment in the tome currently in his possession, he answers her summons this evening almost immediately. It takes him little time to travel to her; he knows all the secret ways and the quickest routes to and from everywhere within the palace, and much of the rest of Asgard.

From the room entrance Loki pauses to observe for a brief moment. His mother was always awe-inspiring and with the twilight sky as her backdrop currently it seemed even more so. His gaze traveled upward, to where her eyes seemed to be locked, and a thin smile trailed over his lips as he saw what she was watching.

When he finally approached he did so slowly so as not to disturb his mother. He kept silent and waited to be noticed.]

[belovedone]

[Though it likely would not surprise her that Loki was watching some time before he made his entrance, at present she has no idea. As soon as she senses his arrival she turns to look back with a welcoming smile.]

Ah, Loki. At last. I see were given my summons. [Briefly she lifts one hand, gesturing upward.] But look, my son! Is it not a most glorious night? I hope you will pardon me for asking you to join me.

[It's not really an apology so much as an offhand statement. It's obvious she feels Loki will be as pleased to be here as she is. If she were wrong, she'd be both surprised and disappointed.]

[justabitoffun]

[Loki returned the smile naturally, his mother's smile too infectious not to copy. He came to a stop beside her and glanced once more up at the night sky when she indicated.]

It is most glorious, Mother. A far better sight than a dusty tome read in the dark library at such a time. [He would not have minded staying in the library, alone, with the books he chose to read. But he also did not mind setting them aside for his mother, or a night such as this. It truly was an inspiring sight to behold.]

[belovedone]

I could not agree more. [She tilts her head at him, a knowing look to her eyes as she shakes her head briefly, a playful scolding chuckle on her tongue.] Though I am certain at times, you would hardly yourself.

[She knows Loki's love of books and scrolls full well. The pleasure he takes in being alone with naught but new sources for knowledge. But it is his way, and she would not deny him his cleverness any more than she'd fail to take pride in it.]