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Stolenmuse: I really didn't want Cephera to forgive him so easily. I'm happy I seem to have carried it out well.

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Chapter 10

When she opened her room door the last thing she expected was to be escorted by a guard to the throne room. Her whole body was shaking with nervousness. She hadn't talked to Odin since she had first arrived on Asgard over two centuries ago. That fact he wanted to see her now after what transpired last night left her with a hollow feeling of dread.

She walked into the throne room and was brought right to the bottom of the staircase leading to the throne where Odin sat, a glum look set of his features and his brow furrowed as he looked down at her. She bowed to one knee and dared not look up till he told her, which he didn't.

"Cephera, it has come to my attention that relations of a dangerous and outlandish sort have been occurring between youself and my son, prince Loki. Do you know what it is I speak of?" she nodded numbly her heart thudding loudly in her ears. "I should have had Heimdell keep a closer watch over you. Do you understand the position you have put yourself in, put your family in?"

"Yes my king. As unintentional as it was I understand I have come close to almost compromising everything that had been set in place to protect me." she replied in a shaking whisper.

She heard him sigh deeply. "How far has this gone?" he asked her. She wasn't sure how to answer that. She wasn't sure to what he was referring. Actions or feelings.

"Could my king be more specific?"

"Have you engaged in any sexual action with my son where you might find yourself with child?"

"No, never." his next breath sounded relieved.

"But there is feelings between you that could in the future lead to such acts." he didn't pose it as a question. She stayed silent. She wanted to tell him that his son had made sure that she would never enter his bed. She hadn't forgiven him for what he had put her through and yet she felt as if she still could forgive him in the future.

"I have contacted your family. The position you have put yourself in and those around you is to dangerous for you to remain here. Your family will decide what to do with you. You leave immidiatly. You are no longer Asgards problem." Odin's words stung her and she felt her eyes burn. She bit her lip holding back her emotion.

She felt the guards tug her to her feet but she couldn't rememeber walking out of the room. She was mounted onto a horse and taken down to the newly constructed Byfrost. All the while she could only think of how she'd never see him again. She couldn't help but wonder if he would be sad or happy that she was gone.

Loki opened his chamber doors to the sight of Odin's guards. "Prince Loki, your father requests your presence in the throne room." the guard gave a curt bow and waited for Loki to exit his room to walk in front of them.

It was never a good thing when his 'father' sent guards to retrieve him. He set his face in stone as he had learned to do in Odin's presence. Their relationship had never healed since he had found out his true parentage.

When he approached the throne room he stepped up to look at Odin, almost glaring. "My son," Loki's bit back his correction. "It is a grave day indeed when news comes to me of things that I thought only Thor, in his youth, was capable of." Loki felt his anger bubble. He hated being compared to Thor.

"You have managed to shake the balance of peace with myself and an ally through your careless actions regarding your servant Cephera. It came to my attention, last night, that you and her have been dipping into actions and feelings not meant to be had between servant and master." Loki gave his father a annoyed look.

"And since when has playing with a servant been illegal. Everyone dabbles with servants from time to time." Loki hissed. He was confused. Why should it matter. People fucked their servants all the time. Servants where known to carry children of their masters even though the child would be deemed a bastard. What made his songbird any different.

"It is wrong for a prince of Asgard to dabble in such things with servants. Had she become with child, that child would have had royal blood. Your lack of care for boundaries has made you careless. I will not have it in my house!" Odin's voice was booming.

"I never took her to my bed. She was nothing more then a servant. She was beneath such attention from me." Loki lied. The lie tasted like venom in his mouth.

"From the things I have been told after much investigating through Heimdall, I suspect otherwise. Forget your feelings for the girl. She has been formally removed from Asgard and you'll never see her again. She is far from your reach. Like Thor's feelings for the human woman, Jane, so to will you have to live apart from Cephera."

Loki balled his hands into fists. His hatred threatening to wash off his calm demeanor. But he bite it back. He kept his calm stoney look. "I hope you plan to retrain another soon. Good ones like her, are hard to find." was all Loki said. Odin shook his head in exasperation.

When Loki returned to his room he shut his door as calmly as possible. He stood back on to it and took a deep breath. She was gone. He refused to panic or let his anger take over. He had let his anger take control of him to often. He needed a clear sound mind.

Loki wasn't much for rules even as a child. It's what caused him to gain the names god of mischief, prince of lies. Odin's reaction to the situation was puzzling and Loki felt there was something else.

He would find her. One way or another, no matter how long it took, he'd find her. He went straight to his desk. He grabbed a quill and parchment and began to write down everything he could remember about her. If he could find her family, he could potentially find her. Loki suddenly hated himself.

If he hadn't drove her to flee him they wouldn't have been out of the boundaries for the magic he had set in place to blind Heimdell from him. He had been lucky enough that Heimdell hadn't seen them when he was imprisoned. At the time he wasn't worried about being caught.

Loki looked back down at the parchment and growled. He had wrote her first name only, her rough age, the things he knew she enjoyed like her apples, and the fact she had that magic aurora. He glared suddenly. He knew less about her then he thought.

Aside from her outer appearance and her devotion or her ability to learn quick and adapt he knew nothing truly personal about her. It shouldn't have surprised him. He had no need for such information about her. She had only been a servant. His research would have to stem from a different source.

He sat back in the chair and furrowed his brow in thought. He would wait a month or so. Let Odin and Heimdell think he was over it. Wait for them to stop there consistent watching. And then, one by one, he would approach the other servant's in secret. Someone had to know something he could use.

He hated to wait. The longer he was forced to wait, it meant she would possibly be given to another. Possibly even married off. The thought clouded his mind. He would kill any other man who would dare touch her. He growled and sat straight up. It was hard to stay calm thinking that way.

When Thor came bellowing at his door only moments later Loki rubbed his temple in annoyance but let him in.