Welcome to part two of my To Marry An Asgardian Prince series. The events of this story will take place during the first Thor movie. I just want to thank everyone again who read Part One, and I hope you all enjoy Part Two.
Today was more than likely the second biggest day of Vilvi's life. Well, it really wasn't all that important to her in all honesty but she had to pretend it was a big deal. Today was Thor's coronation. Today was the day Thor became King of Asgard.
Vilvi had spent the last three years basically trapped in the manor her parents banished her to outside the Asgardian palace. Every trip she took to the palace, she was escorted by Mora and never left Mora's sight. She went to parties and feasts, never leaving Thor's side. She still attended sword training with Lady Sif, still monitored even then. Only Thor was allowed to visit her at her manor, constantly filling her ears with tales of his heroic battles. She saw little of Loki, and when she did see him talking to him was completely out of the question. During her training with Sif, Sif assured her Loki refused to court any other and that his affections for her seemed to remain. Vilvi couldn't deny the separation only seemed to make her grow fonder of Loki, which only made the pain of marrying Thor that much worse.
The gown Frigga had sent Vilvi for the coronation was a soft blue color. It made Vilvi looked so much more pale; it made her look sad, and she was sad. Mora watched from the corner of Vilvi's bedchamber as the handmaidens worked their fingers away on Vilvi's hair. Vilvi stared at her reflection in the mirror, her eyes empty. She didn't even recognized herself; not because of the clothes, or the hairstyle, but the sadness that had consumed her entire existence.
Mora dismissed the handmaidens as soon as Vilvi was ready. "Princess," Mora began as she approached Vilvi from the corner. "I have watched you for the last three years, I've seen the sadness grow deeper in you, and there's no way I can ever apologize to you enough. I know this is my fault, and I know this is why you've grown colder towards me even more so than before. I know there's really nothing I can do to ever earn your trust again, but there is something I can offer to try to amend for my mistake."
Vilvi looked at Mora with eyes swelled with tears. But they weren't so much tears of sadness as they were of anger. "You arranged this marriage, forced me into Thor's arms, both of which I took in silence. But then you betrayed my trust, the trust of your princess, and condemned me to this horrid life casted away. When I become the Queen of Asgard, the first thing I will do is banish you back to Veanari, you will be shamed and stripped of your title in the Veanarian court. You will lose everything, just as I have, but you will never feel the pain I feel because you will still be free to make your own decisions, a privilege you do not deserve."
Mora let Vilvi speak and only nodded in a silence response before she let a soft whimper fall from her lips, "You can go back to the palace."
Vilvi's eyes widened with a sense of shock and smidgen of hope she dared to feel. "What?" Her voice cracked as she asked Mora to repeat herself.
"You can go back to the palace." Mora repeated.
"My parents said I had to stay here until the wedding."
"I convinced them otherwise. Said you had made such great progress since your time in the manor and that you felt genuine affection towards Thor and wished to be closer to him."
"You lied to the King and Queen of Veanari?"
"It was the least I could do." Mora whispered as she looked away from her princess.
"Mora, I-"
"Please don't thank me, I don't deserve your thanks. This isn't a favor, it's an apology."
There was silence between the two, but in that silence they reached a certain sense of understanding of each other as Vilvi rode from her seat at her vanity and Mora gestured for her to follow as they began to make their way from the manor and to the palace for the coronation. Vilvi found herself alive with a certain new found sense of excitement at the thought of finally getting to leave this manor, and returning to the palace, returning to Loki.
