A Lokean Devotional Vignette
“Let’s try one thing at a time, hmm?
You are used to juggling more than is asked of you.”
Loki confronts.
A Lokean Devotional Vignette
“Let’s try one thing at a time, hmm?
You are used to juggling more than is asked of you.”
Loki confronts.
A Lokean Devotional Vignette
“Look outside,” Loki instructs the moment I wake from sleep.
Dense fog. Every place I look.
“Happy Halloween.”
A Lokean Devotional Vignette
“Your sidecut needs its edges cleaned up, Dear,” Loki says.
“Oh my God, Loki!”
“Yes.”
“You’re right. It’s been a month or more since I had it trimmed,” I mumble, lowering my head beneath his attention.

A Lokean Devotional Vignette
The ravens circle, laughing, cackling.
I break into tears, joy on my lips.
Loki, tall behind me.
“You are okay,” he says.
“I don’t feel like I am.”
“You are.”
I can hear his smile.
“I feel ashamed because I need more than normal.”
“It is okay to have your individual needs,” Loki whispers into my hair.
A Lokean Devotional Vignette
“I want a life where I sleep, eat, drink, and play as I need to, and I work because I like to,” I tell him wistfully, daydreaming.
“You already have that, Love. Just listen to your body and your heart as they speak to you,” Loki says.
Ancestral Gossip
“There will always be argument that changes nothing. And there will always be art.”
-Grandmother Moth
A Lokean Devotional Vignette
Rest does not mean you cannot do things.
Rest means putting down what can wait and doing what you feel like doing, what refreshes you.
“Rest from. Not rest because,” Loki teaches me.
A Lokean Devotional Vignette
“I went through hell and have nothing to show for it.”
“Your sovereignty. You have your freedom to show for it.” He says softly.
Loki turns my perspective righted.
A Lokean Devotional Vignette
“It is only a nightmare if left unresolved. End it by imagining the end that you need,” Loki whispers as I shiver awake from sleep.
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