Swordgleam

Loki was on his way back from Ireland, in a foul mood after his bargain with Brigid. He took the long way home, over hills and through forests, rather than once more brave the stormy seas between the emerald isle and his homeland. It gave him a chance to cool down – and, more importantly, to make mischief for whomever he met. One fine spring morning on his journey he saw a lark's nest full of eggs, abandoned for the moment, but surely home to a happy bird. Seized with a not-uncommon impulse to cause trouble, Loki took the eggs and scattered him, hiding them under bushes, in trees, beneath fallen leaves, on rocks in the burbling streambe