Chapter 2

Cephera spent her morning cleaning her usual things and as she did so she couldn't help but reminisce about the time, two hundred years ago, that she was first made a servant to Prince Loki.

Cephera wasn't afraid but she was unsure exactly what to expect. For her own protection her sister's father had asked a friend of his to take her in and give her somewhere to live. She didn't mind working to stay there.

After a bit of back and forth deliberation it was decided that Cephera would be allowed on Asgard as a personal maid to the all fathers youngest son Loki. It would seem the 800 year old god was unhappy with the servant who last worked for him.

Cephera arrived the next day. On her arrival she was greeted by a guard who took her by horseback to see the king. Himself and his wife were the only two present.

"Welcome Cephera. I am sure it has been explained to you that while you are here you will be treated as no more then a maid. You will receive nothing special except the one request to take two separate weeks every year to go to earth to meet with your sister."

"I understand." Cephera said bowing her head.

"I sent you a women who has schooled you in the ways to greet and treat my son, a prince of Asgard. Do you believe you're ready?"

"I do." Frigga stepped forward with a dress of black and green and an underdress. It was simple in design. It showed no sign of what her body might be like beneath. She also gave her a white cap for her head.

"As a personal maid to our son Loki, you are required to be available at all times. During those times you wear the uniform. Servants, especially women, of the household must be kept covered at all times we cannot afford them to lay down distraction. However in your own bedchambers and down in the servants common room you may dress in whatever you wish." Frigga smiled at Cephera kindly. She nodded again.

"I appreciate this opportunity and your hospitality. I hope I can bring many years of good service to your son." She was escorted to a room where she quickly changed into her new permanent clothing. Her nerves had begun to bubble up now.

When she walked back out both princes where present. She assumed the one wearing green and black was Loki. "My son, this is your new maid." Frigga said and Cephera bowed low as she had been shown to do.

"She's so young. Have fun training her in brother." Cephera heard Thor say as he laughed and slapped loki hard on the back. Loki glared slightly over his shoulder but said nothing. Cephera had heard that he would be training her which she had thought was odd but apparently he was very particular

"Come with me." he said. Cephera followed smiling at Thor as she passed. Loki hadn't ask her name and she wondered how he would address her. Probably servant or maid. She followed him all the way up a spiral staircase to a tower. He stopped in front of the doors and whispered a word. It swung open.

"As only I know the magic to open the doors here is a set of keys. If you lose them I will be very displeased." he said not looking at her but handed the keys behind him for her to take never once looking her way. He walked inside and Cephera followed. "This is my tower. I do all my potions and magic training here. Out of all the rooms this is the most important to me and will be the worst to keep clean. I expect it cleaned every morning. I work at night so morning is the best time. All my potions ingredients are labeled. I expect them to stay in order. All my books are to be treated the same."

"Yes sir." She nodded more on instinct then necessity as he still was back on to her.

"No one but myself and you are allowed in here when I am not around. The door will lock automatically behind you." he walked back out and she hurried after him. They headed back down the spiral stairs and down many halls. "I hope you've been paying attention to your surroundings as we walk. I don't expect to escort you again."

"I have." She answered amused. When they reached a room with double doors he stopped. He muttered a word and opened the room doors. "You will notice I am a very private person. All the rooms that are personally mine are locked with enchantments and cannot be entered by others unless I am inside or they are of my family." Cephera felt her stomach knot. What if she did lose the keys! Her hand clenched around the keys.

"Sir if I may ask..." She waited to see if he would allow her to continue. He motioned her onward almost impatiently. "Wouldn't it be easier for you to just teach me the magic to get in. Safer that way perhaps." he laughed almost mockingly.

"Magic is not so easily taught to someone of low birth. It would be too time consuming. I am not willing to waste such time."

"I could learn right now. I can do magic." Cephera insisted trying to keep her voice steady but firm. Loki turned to look at her then. Her violet eyes looking into his green ones.

"Show me." he said closing the doors. He allowed Cephera to step forward and he leaned down whispering the word in her ear. He didn't know it but she had already touched his hand ever so gently when he gave her his keys. With just one touch she had copied all the magic he knew. It was what made her special.

Cephera laid her hand on the handle and spoke the word. Cephera would have given anything to see his face behind her when it opened. "This I can work with." he said shocked but amused. She turned and handed him back the keys. She had no need for them now. Cephera watched them disappear and he walked passed her into the room.

It was his bedchambers. The room was large and of course adorned in his colors. There was a dresser and work desk and a window seat that viewed the city and of course a bathroom. The baths in Asgard were filled by magic. They were large and made of magic stone to keep in heat and of course the water.

"You are to arrive here every morning as the sun rises. You will lay out my clothes over on that chair. Do not wake me. You will tidy and clean any mess I might have made both here and the bath area. All laundry will be taken with you when you depart. That is all for today. We will see how you do come tomorrow. It is early still you may start now." he left her there by herself.

The first week went by quickly. Cephera was a good listener and student. He hadn't made one complaint to her since she started. Cephera did the work as he asked her to do with as much precision as she knew how. She had also recently been tasked with going on any errands he saw fit to give her. She didn't see him often.

Sometimes he'd wake when she was there but wouldn't get up until after she was done. His room was never very messy. He was the only one who went in there besides herself. And she was surprised to never see him bring one women to his bedchambers. Maybe he way gay!

Going into the second week she worked on his tower scrubbing something off the floor he had spilled. She knelt there singing to herself. Singing was something she knew she was good at. Between herself and her sister she had gotten the voice and the grace. And her sister got the rough and toughness.

Cephera was so wrapped up in her singing she didn't hear him come in. Usually she would stand and bow and then go back to work. But not this day. She continued dipping the cloth in the bucket and scrubbing while her voice carried its tune.

It was only when she stood from her finished floor and turned did she see him. "I am sorry my prince I did not hear you come in." She apologized bowing.

"I will forgive you only because your singing is not a hindrance. In fact I like it." he sat behind his desk. "You rearranged my potion ingredients." he noted but didn't sound angry. Cephera had literally taken everything and organized it by solid or liquid and then by the first letter and then within those groups she used the second letter to organize even further and continued till everything was perfectly alphabetized. "I was slightly annoyed at first until I saw what it was you actually had done. It does prove more effective."

"I'm glad." she said taking one of his books from the desk that needed to be put away when he grabbed her by the wrist.

"Though from now on you are to go through me before you decide to change something. Even if it is for better or for worse." he warned her his eyes narrowing. His grip on her wrist was tight.

"Yes sir." she said her heart leaping into her throat. He let her go and gestured for her to leave. She let the book go and left promptly.

It wasn't until two months in Cephera found out why he never had girls in his room. He wasn't gay, oh no. He had a secret room that was surrounded in magic and could not be entered with anything but magic.

"I have something I need to show you and you are to tell no one." he said to her before taking her wrist gently in his hand. She felt the pull of his magic as he teleported them from his room to a different room. This room was all black in decoration. "When I am in need of female companionship I bring them here. This is my special room only for that. You will, starting tonight, fetch me a whore from the lower levels." His sudden request startled her.

"How will I know what you like?" She asked. He passed her a book of drawings.

"This will help you. You must make sure you tell them who they will be serving and make sure they consent first. I will not have anyone running around claiming rape." She nodded flipping through the pages. All the girls where beautiful of course. He didn't seem to care about length of hair but they all had at least a C cup or higher. Everyone had very sexy womanly faces and pouty mouths. No pictures where colored so she assumed it meant that didn't matter. They were also all very curvy. Nothing about any of them where like her except for the curves and maybe pretty face. She was always told she had a very beautiful face though she didn't really see it. She didn't think she was ugly but beautiful was not a word she used to describe herself.

"I want you to find me someone and have them here ready for me at 10pm. You are to help them bathe in my favortie scent and they are to wait for me on the bed wearing nothing."

"I understand." she said tilting her head to look at the last girl. It was almost like a centerfold of a hustler magazine. She grinned amused. He took the book suddenly making her gasp.

"I will summon you in my usual way when I am ready for them to leave. Did you pay attention on how to get here?"

"I didn't catch the words you spoke." She admitted. He had gone too fast. He told her the words and then allowed her to give it a try. She teleported both back and forth. "Good. Now go."

Cephera broke free of her memories and smiled. Though Loki had been cold to her at first she slowly began to understand he was just that kind of guy. He didn't show his feelings clearly and was very reserved. She spent her first few years convinced he didn't like her but she now knew better. She wasn't sure when she had begun to feel she loved him but like everything she felt it really didn't matter.