selene // thor odinson

V

olympus

a week later

Today was the day the Asgardians were leaving Olympus.

We were laying in my bed, the sun sent a heady stream of light through the gaps between the pillars that overlooked the edge of the mountain, the sunlight creeping slowly towards us, lighting up the room.

"How you feeling?" I asked Thor tentatively, shifting my body to crane my neck so I could see him.

"Fine," he answered quietly. I said nothing, watching how his mind seemed to be turning.

"Talk to me, Thor," I said, my eyes soft.

"Nervous."

"It's okay to be nervous, Thor. This is new territory for you, for your people but you're all together now and Asgard is strong, you've been through a lot and this next hurdle is nothing that you cannot handle."

"But everything is new," Thor sighed, running his hand over his face. "It's nothing but a stretch of land. The village is barren, there's no water system, no crops...it's bare."

"And you'll build that land up," I said quickly.  "New Asgard will thrive just as much as the the old one did. Your people are some of the most intelligent I have ever met. With you leading them, I know the land will be transformed within months."

"One can hope...but I know nothing, Selene," He said, frustration lining his words. "Absolutely nothing. I spent my entire youth galivanting through the cosmos, picking fights where I could. My father was right."

"Your father was anything but right, Thor. Plus, those opinions of you are ones of the past. Your father believed in you, Thor. Your mother, father, brother...they all knew that you are capable. You're worthy of being King."

Thor swallowed hardly, taking in my words. "You'll be staying here I suppose?"

"Thor," I scoffed, leaning my head against my hand and propping myself up. "I would never leave you. I don't think that I can, to be honest. You'll have me, by your side, always."

"Every step of the way?" Thor asked me, anxiety running through him at the thought of building up his country alone.

"Every step of the way."

A few hours later, the remaining Asgardians, those that had survived Thanos' attack and the Snap, gathered among the streets of Olympus, ready to leave for their new home in Norway.

Thor told me all about the place where he last saw his father, the place where he told him that Asgard was not a place, but a people. Asgard could be anywhere and so that, is where they were going.

The village was called Tønsberg. It was where the Tesseract was housed for several centuries, the same village where the Frost Giants were defeated by Asgard in their plan to conquer Midgard.

"Sigge! Come back here," I heard a mother's voice call out to her child as I was making my way through the crowd of Asgardians to check if they were all ready to leave Olympus. I saw the child's mother who was holding another small child in her arms, call out his name as she stood outside her house.

As I turned around to look for the child, something small bumped into me.

"Oof," I said, blinking down to see the little boy. I smiled at him as he looked guiltily up at me. "Sigge, right?" I asked the boy, dropping to me knee to level with him.

He nodded at me, a sorry smile on his face. "I didn't mean to bump into you, Lady Selene."

"Don't worry about it," I said, waving him off quickly, patting him lightly on the shoulder. "But do tell me. Why are you running from your mother?"