"Are you sure you can leave already, Lady Name?" You sort of like how Thor called you Lady Name, and his concern for your well being now that he knew your intentions was amusing.
"I am fine Thor." You do a few jumping jacks. "Picture of health."
He grins at your antics. "You may want to hold on."
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Traveling to this 'Asgard' was a bad idea, because it involved portals. To put it simply, All-Faces and magical portals do not mix well. Note to self, do portal travel as little as possible.
As soon as you had enter the portal your instincts went nuts, angry even, you had wanted to run, and maybe had a slight shifting incident. The portal hadn't liked you very much either, judging by all the lightning and magical energy it released, poor Thor. He look scared witless. And he said he did this portal traveling stuff all the time!
But, Asgard was impressive. The place was beautiful, ancient. You could feel the energy thrumming in this place. The people, surprise, were all dressed differently from those back on Earth, although the armor reminded you of the Shifters. A nice plate of armor over the heart was quite popular, it kept sharp claws, fangs, and talons out of your chest cavity and had save more than one Shifter who was off guard or unprepared. Plus Shifters tended to stick more to old ways than humans. You had met more than one, especially among the Vavatonem, dressed like an ancient Greek, Chinese, Egyptian, or Arabian. And more. But did you really have to mentally list them all out?
Thor pointed out the palace to you and it oddly reminded you of a pipe organ you had once seen, with its golden towers reaching for the sky full of.. Planets. Not the sky you were use to...But you did like it.
Then you finally made it to the palace, you couldn't help but wonder if Thor had purposefully opened the portal far away from the place, it really had taken way too long in your opinion to get to the palace. But maybe you were just a little impatient. Maybe. But the growing anticipation was killing you, literally, the closer you got to the place the worse you felt, so nervous you were certain you were pale faced. You could tell from Thor's looks over his stupidly broad shoulders, which was happening more and more, he was worried as well. "The Throne Room is just down the hall, there you will meet our parents. Are you sure you want to do this?"
You snarl at him, you feel bad instantly, but the Instincts are so riled up, you weren't doing anything right, why would they say yes? "I have to."
But then those golden doors opened and everything in you screams as you stared into the white haired man's one hard blue eye. He watched you silently with that one eye, then blinked. "I thought I sensed something, what are you?" His eyes narrow and his grip on his golden spear tighten. "Do not fight me."
You pause, why fight him? "Lady Name?" You look to Thor, poor thing, he is clearly having a bad day. "Please return to human form."
You look at your distorted image in the golden walls. Fangs, claws, wings, small, but definitely capable of flight, spikes and scales scatter across your skin like someone had thrown them on you without looking. The spikes also pierced your clothes...Crap, you like these jeans.. You took a deep breath, forcing yourself human. "I apologize, I very recently completed my training. I am an All-Face." How embarrassing, how could you convince anyone you were good for Loki if you randomly shifted upon meeting some old man?
"An All-Face? Of... Midgard. Why are you here?"
"I am here to speak of Loki with his parents."
Suddenly the old man laughs bitterly. "I am certain he told you he doesn't consider us his parents!"
"Odin." A woman scolds from inside the room, she walks towards this 'Odin'. Odin? Loki spoke of an Odin, an Odin whom he hated. You narrow your eyes, hmm. Loki had been hurt by this Odin. "Loki is our son as much as Thor and-" The blonde woman, she was older as well, but age had touched her gently and with kindness. "Oh, a visitor from Midgard! Come in."
"Sorry, you are Loki's parents, adoptive parents?" You add.
She nods slowly, "Yes, yes we are. I am Frigga and he is Odin. Why?"
You take a breath, you had never received much teaching on this, wasn't there some stupid speech or something? And you were pretty sure you were suppose to present gifts..Traditionally...Oops. "I-I..Ah.. Um. Perhaps you should sit down?" Is that the best you can do?! Literally!? But they sit in there nice, gold, imposing thrones.. Great, now they're intimidating. "I..." What should you say? You really hadn't thought about this... "I wish to court Loki and would like to seek your permission and blessing." Wow. Not impressed, but the blonde looked so happy she could cry. Odin looked like he was trying to keep a raven down however.
"What?" He squeaked out, not so intimidating anymore...
"Do you love him?" Frigga blurted out.
You stiffen. "Um.. Maybe.. How much do you know about Shifters?" You noticed his blank look, Shifters? "I am an All-Face which is a kind of Shifter."
Odin frowns. "Nothing." That statement seems trouble everybody except you.
You try not to sigh. "For a Shifter, a Mate is not something we... To be put quick and simple, I did not consciously choose him. I am not just human, I am a million different things, animals and more. I am all faces, all facets of beings and other." You look Odin straight in the eye, "I spent a great deal of time with your son, entire days with just him after a long period of relative solitude. He is smart, strong, he has qualities that that the other parts of me no doubt value. Its like having a second being, per se, in me, that being chose Loki to be my Mate and I Bonded to him because of that. It happens, Mates are complicated in how we Shifters gain them, but after that its relatively simple."
Frigga speaks slowly, like you had just ruined something very precious. "So you do not love him, you want him because some little voice, one of an animal? Tells you to want him?" You can hear the tremor of rage that only a mother can have.
"Maybe, maybe not. Its hard to tell the difference, I know I don't hate him. I know I like him and his company, but I don't know what parts of my feelings for him are my own and what parts are the Bond." You sigh. Spreading your hands out. "I can't deny though that I have Bonded to him, I well waste away without him, possibly die. Or I may lose control of the Bond and do something regrettable. I do want to court him, if he wants me to go away? I well, I won't want to harm him because of the Bond. I would care for him, protect him, he wouldn't be in any danger from me."
"But you wouldn't love him." Frigga frowns at you.
"I may one day, but..Who knows what may happen?" You smile then. "But its up to him, whatever he chooses, I just want to deal with this as peacefully as possible. I may not love him, but I do want him to be happy." You smirk, thinking of how you had decorated the apartment for him..Oh. You had probably already have Bonded to him at the time, and the Bond want to make a place where he would want to stay. Now that you thought about it, his complaints had been something you had paid a particular amount of attention to. That sort of..Made you mad. It sucked that your kind acts towards him were probably motivated by the stupid Bond you didn't even choose. Unfair.
Frigga mistook your agitation for impatience. "If Loki approves, then so do I." She turns to Odin, who shrugs. She looks back to you. "Please visit with him, I haven't seen him in so long."
"I will try." You do what you figure may pass for a curtsy.
Odin speaks up then. "Thor well return you to Midgard, leave now."
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You really hate portals. Officially. Thor is really nice about it, but you hate it now. The pull as it brings you somewhere, the lack of control, the indescribable fear that suffocates you in the portal. The knowledge that you currently control nothing, you are powerless. And you hate it.
But that's unimportant. You need to court Loki...But how?
So everything is going to be slowing down... School is calling me and demanding most of my time and brain power, but first my family has decided to haul me out to a no wifi area.. Negative thoughts that aren't your beeswax. Anyways, question, what do you think of the names Lochesh, Sephtis, Raz, and Chisisi? Which two are your fav?
