Chapter Eleven
I'm Here Now
As Samantha was roughly dragged into the castle she felt her arm become cold. She was wondering how as she was wearing a lot of layers. It wasn't until she glanced down at her arm, that's when she saw the blue hand. She was in shock, as she simply didn't know anyone with blue hands. And on top of the blue hands, the hands had marking on them as well. Samantha was beyond confused for who- what was holding her arm. She followed the arm up to what appeared to be a man's face. There wasn't much abnormal about his face, except the blue skin colour and markings on his face.
She was roughly pushed down a flight of stairs and into a room that looked like a dungeon. There was moss covering all of the bricks walls. It was cold and damp and the whole placed scared Samantha a little bit. She looked and saw that there was a man in one of the cells. 'Could it be?' She quickly thought to herself.
With one final push Samantha fell to the ground and front of the occupied cell. She looked in and saw that the man was indeed her father.
"Dad!" Samantha called out when she saw that it was her father.
"Samantha!" Her father replied soon after he had heard Samantha.
Samantha reached her arm out to grasp her father's hand. She felt tears of joy stream down her face.
"Oh, how touching." A voice mocked them from the corner. A figure that was had blue skin and was wearing a black clothes.
"W-who are you?" Samantha asked scared.
"That is no importance to you." The blue skinned figure said.
"Please let my daughter go." Samantha's father said.
"Well I can't yet anyone go." The figure mocked.
"Just please." Samantha's father pleaded.
Loki stood there and stared down at the two Midgardians that were below his feet. 'Their natural place.' Loki thought bitterly to himself.
Loki started to laugh oh how he had waited for a Midgardian to come into the castle and invade his privacy. But in this case there was a daughter and father.
"Please let my dad go," Samantha pleaded. "I've got a younger brother that needs my dad!"
Loki thought on this. He had wanted company that can actually talk, and though he doesn't have his powers, but he will enjoy messing with their minds.
"Alright then," Loki said as he got their attention. "I will allow one of you to go back."
"Take me!" Samantha said without hesitation.
"Sam-" Her father said before he was cut off.
"Perfect." Loki smirked.
After Loki had kicked Samantha's father out of the castle, he brought Samantha into the one of the many reception rooms. He had laid down some rules, most of them were telling Samantha the boundaries that she had inside the castle and that she wasn't able to leave unless Loki had told her.
Samantha agreed and walked up to her room. She was escorted by a servant to her bedroom. Samantha was in awe when she had seen her bedroom. Samantha had asked the name of the servant when she had left the room, the servant had said nothing, but offered a same sad smile towards Samantha.
Samantha was beyond puzzled to see that the servant was able to talk. She was curious and wanted to know more, about this castle and everyone in it. Samantha wondered if there as a library in the castle. She might be able to find some answers and pass the time at the same time. This made Samantha very happy if the castle had a library.
She carefully made it out of her room and down the hallway, the last thing at Samantha wanted to do is to run into the nameless blue figure, he seemed very tense and not friendly at all. She made it to the stairwell and that was when she realised that that she didn't know where she was going. Samantha wondered through the hallways until she saw a maid dusting a table.
"Excuse me." Samantha said softly as she didn't want to frighten the maid.
A maid acknowledged her by stopping what she was doing, turning around and offered her a small smile.
"Could you please show me where the library is?" Samantha asked.
The maid nodded and gestured Samantha to follow her.
Samantha smiled as she followed the maid through the castle she ended up on the second floor. Samantha fell in love with the décor of the castle; it was contrasting in all of the rooms. The main foyer was grand as showed what wealth the family had, the reception room that Samantha had been in had a completely different theme from the main foyer, the hallways were plain but had the most beautiful of painting decorating them and her bedroom had a blue theme throughout it, it looked like it was actually made for a young prince.
Samantha had fallen deeper in love with a castle when she saw the library, like her room it had a blue theme throughout it, tall, wall-high bookshelves covered most of the walls and finally on the western wall, it had floor-to-ceiling windows that show a view of both the forest around the castle, but the village below.
"Thank you." Samantha said as she turned around to the maid.
The maid still said nothing and bowed her head and walked out of the room, leaving the doors a jar.
Samantha ran to the first book shelve that her eyes had landed upon and smiled bigger and brighter than she had ever done before. Her eye fell to a copy of 'The Prince' by Niccolo Machiavelli. The book looked authentic, like it was actually from the 16th Century. This made Samantha afraid that she would pull the book apart.
Samantha was pleasantly surprised when she opened the book and saw it was still intact. She was also surprised when she opened the book and saw it was actually sighed as well. She turned the first page and saw it was written in Italian and had an English translation on the other page. She went through the book and had trouble reading it as it was in Old English, she sighed and carried on reading the book.
When Samantha had a look at the window she saw it was nighttime, she sighed and found a piece of cloth to mark her page before she walked out of the library with her book in hand. She made it to one of the main hallways and walked up the stair and to her bedroom, she bumped into something cold, or should she say someone.
Samantha gasped as she looked up to a pair of angry green eyes.
"What are you doing?" Asked Loki with a smirk.
"I-I was grabbing a b-book to read before I go to s-sleep." Samantha stuttered.
"Hm, where did you find this book?" Loki asked.
"From the library on the second floor!" Samantha exclaimed as she was beyond scared.
"I suppose that's alright." Loki said before he walked away.
Samantha broke out into a run to her bedroom and closed the door before she slid down the door. She rested her head on her knees.
"What have I gotten myself into?" Samantha wonders out loud.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I apologise for the extremely late chapter! I've been busy with assessments at school (does school give people a break?) Speaking of breaks I'm on holiday from school for two weeks! I'm going to have two serious weeks of writing so I can be a head of the game for the next few months! The plot is now thicking in this story! I've officially planned every thing for this story and a possible sequel! I hope you are have a great day!
-Ash
