The Witness
It was lonely in the cave, damp with wet growth on the walls and a strange, eerie cold seeping from the walls and settling deep into the bones.
Certainly it was not a place a goddess the likes of Golden Idunn would step into, yet the goddess walks, bare feet treading unhesitatingly through the dank tunnel. Her basket of apples dangles on her arm, and though they were heavy, she carries them as if they were air.
The tunnel opens out, and she hears a voice, low and musical and soft, "You came."
"Of course I came," she says briskly, moving towards the two figures and the snake. "How is he?"
"... Fine," a voice croaks, hoarse and