Long before the realms fell into chaos, the daughter of Vanaheim was raised in the golden halls of Asgard beside princes and gods. Thor became her fiercest protector, Loki her closest secret — the boy who understood every sharp edge she tried to hide. But war shattered everything. When her parents, the rulers of Vanaheim, were murdered during a brutal uprising, she was forced to leave Asgard behind and take the throne before she was ready. Decades pass. Peace finally returns to her realm. And for the first time since she fled, she crosses the Bifröst once more. Asgard remembers her. Thor welcomes her like lost family. Odin watches carefully. The realm whispers about the Vanir queen with impossible powers. And Loki? Loki looks at her like she is both a memory and a wound that never healed. Because some things do not fade with time. Especially not gods.