A Wonderful Birthday Gift Ed1 Ch1

Tale summary: Mentally and spiritually linked twin descendants Sigmund and Signy of chief god Wotan, Frost-Giant Hrimnir, Valkyrie Hljod, and Germanic human heroes want to give each other precious gifts for their thirteenth birthday. With the help of the goddess Freya, they succeed with a literal firework.

Story start notes: This is the first installment of my series Sigcestuous Adventures, where supernaturally connected Germanic twins Signy and Sigmund go through adventures in which their extraordinary coitus plays a key role.
To those who say sibcest is perverse, I admit it’s wrong. But perverse? I’ll give you examples of what’s truly perverse: the ongoing senseless slaughter of over highly sentient whales; the bloodthirsty bullfights in Spanish arenas; hunting elephants and rhinos to extinction for ivory or horn; hunting animals for sport or trophies, including so-called "green hunting"; blood sport of any kind; stepping on little critters out of lust to kill, because the person in question erroneously (this is a monstrous error!) thinks the critters don’t have worth, or something similar. One instance of each of these is many orders of magnitude more perverse and evil than all acts of consensual child-safe (see below) sibcest combined.
Pure sibling love without a sexual element is clearly nicer and better than sibcest, which is wrong, but so is eating health-harming junk food, using ocean-polluting plastic packaging, watching porn and playing aggressive video games. Consensual non-cheating sibcest is victimless and so rather harmless. “But the children will be deformed!” you say. Not for descendants of Gods and Jotuns and Valkyries, such as Sigmund and Signy. And for humans: right, it must be ensured that the children don’t have a higher disease risk; otherwise, sibcest is indeed heinous. But that can be done with modern technology such as embryo screening. Because consensual non-adulterous child-safe sibcest is victimless, forbidding it is pointless. Moreover, it constitutes a violation of the fundamental human right of sexual self-determination. Finally, writing about victimless sibcest is about as wrong as writing about other immoral behavior like mild violence.
Feel free to tell me what you think about this little mythological story of mine and the twincestuous pair of demigods that feature in it!

Chapter 1: On the Eve of the Double Birthday

Chapter summary: Magically linked twins Sigmund and Signy come home and spend the eve of their thirteenth birthday in the hall of their father, where Signy asks their teacher for further lessons.

In a powerful Germanic realm ruled wise King Walse, a descendent of Wotan, and equally wise Queen Hljod, shape-shifting Valkyrie and daughter of the Jotun Hrimnir. They already had seven children, and Hljod was pregnant with the eighth. Eldest among the seven were twins Sigmund and Signy, who shared a single soul and a bond that linked them in mind and spirit. These two were the most outstanding of the King and Queen’s children, fair as Light-Elves and smart as their divine forebear himself. And most of all, they were inseparable.
As their thirteenth birthday loomed, they thought intently about what gifts to give each other and talked about it without the need for words. At last, they came up with an odd idea that seemed as mad as it was wonderful.
“Like that, we’ll be able to give each other our gifts in one go”, they said and giggled as they strolled through the magical woods of Germania on the eve of their birthday.
“I’ll not disappoint my li’l sis,” said Sigmund.
“I’m not your li’l sis”, said Signy and gave her brother a light punch on the upper arm.
“Yeah, I know,” said Sigmund. “We’re both exactly the same age.”
Signy kissed Sigmund and then skipped happily toward their father’s great hall. Sigmund blushed and smiled. He felt unnaturally warm inside whenever his sister placed her lips on his. In a somewhat dreamy state, he followed her. His loving thoughts and feelings swept over Signy and made her giggle all the way home.
“Hey, Signy, yay!” came the voice of a child.
A beautiful woman appeared behind him and lifted him up in the doorway of the hall.
“Yes, my little Ingmar, and that means that your big bro Sigmund can’t be far behind,” she said, smiling at Signy.
“Hi Mom!” called Signy from afar and waved.
“Hi, sweetie!” called back Hljod. “Or should I say sunshine?”
Signy’s light golden hair looked like fire in the beams of the setting sun. Sigmund saw her from behind and thanked Sol, the sun-goddess, for giving him this wonderful view of his sister. He ran after Signy to the porch. The two kids hugged their mother and little brother, then went into the hall.
“Have you already prepared birthday presents for one another?” said the Queen.
“Yes.”
“What is it? What is it?” asked Ingmar.
“That’s a secret. Shush!” said both twins and made a secretive gesture, their eyes sparkling.
“Sigmund, will you play with me?” said Ingmar.
“Of course”, said Signy, knowing what her brother thought and what he wanted to answer.
“It’s great that you teach him these strategy games from a young age,” said Hljod.
“That’s only fitting for a young prince”, said Sigmund.
He went off with Ingmar to play Hnefatafl, a Germanic chess-like game. Meanwhile, his sister went to the royal teacher, who had just finished giving her younger brothers their lessons under Barnstock, the magic tree which the hall had been built around and whose branches reached out over the building’s beautiful Λ-shaped roof. While the boys cheered and ran out to play, Signy begged her teacher, “Master Rudolf, you agreed yesterday to give me extra lessons in linguistics and the day before that in logic, so could you pleeease also give me an extra lesson today?”
“You’ve already taken all your required lessons for today, Princess Signy, but you’re a very hardworking learner, so I shall gladly acquiesce to your request. What subject shall it be today?”
“Considering the subjects of the extra lessons yesterday and the day before, I’d say poetry.”
“So be it”, said Rudolf and fulfilled Signy’s wish.
When the lesson was over, Signy made another request, “Master, can you teach me how to cast a sleeping spell before I go to sleep?”
She and her twin had inherited the power of magic from Wotan, so she only needed someone to teach her how to make use of that ability.
“Don’t you think that this has been more than enough for today?” said Rudolf.
“Pleeeeease!” said Signy and made huge round eyes.
“Gah, how could I refuse that?” said the teacher.
He was already tired, so he didn’t wonder too much what the young princess wanted the spell for. He assumed it was for sleeping better or something, which fit nicely with his current desire. So he taught her a sleeping charm, and she thanked him and wished him a good night.
Walse had spent the day caring for his people and tending to state affairs in his kingdom. By the time he arrived in his hall, Sigmund and Signy had long gone to bed. He and his wife smiled warmly as they looked at the kids’ faces, so cute and so alike.
“Sweet dreams, my dear ones”, he whispered.
Then, the royal couple went to bed, too.

Chapter end notes: What birthday presents do you think do the siblings plan to give each other? What do you think did Signy want to learn the magic spell for? And why did she also ask for a poetry lesson?

(Story continues in next chapter...)