It was amazing how fast life returned to its original manner. She was working again, no longer able to lounge around and eat with the others as she had. It was lonely in the kitchens, however, Prue having risen up some hierarchical ranking system and now some sort of lady of leisure through marriage. The men in the dining hall had clearly forgotten how hard she could kick and needed retraining about where their hands were allowed to touch but at least that was somewhat fun for stress relief and added flattery.
The only difference from now and way back when was the fact her grandfather had not kicked her out. It was so much nicer in his rooms anyway; she got a double bed and a bathroom she only had to share with Fandral – who was ridiculously neat about his soaps and her messes. Part of her was sure her grandfather's leniency had something to do with his desire to keep a close eye on her though. He had been giving her frowny looks whenever they were out in the training yard practicing and she would intentionally ask Balder to help position her in stances both Fandral and she knew she knew very well. Flirting in front of her grandfather was not a good idea but it was the only time she had to make up some excuse to get Balder to come a little closer.
Loki… where to begin with that foul creature. Lessons with Loki had to be altered to accommodate her working hours, now beginning in the afternoons – when he remember not to be away – and involved her bringing him and his girlfriend lunch. The horrible blonde creature draped all over his arms was the ultimate definition of a bimbo having to ask what everything was all the time and still not really getting it; but hey, her boobs jiggled when she giggled.
Patronizing little harpy had even come to bug her in the middle of reading several times to make comments about how she could look sort of pretty if only she did something with her hair, clothes, face well everything really. Oh and Loki chuckled every time his lady friend said those things to Kari though possibly finding the greatest humor in the way she prickled and bit her tongue trying not to turn around and beat the giant cleavage to death with a book on transfiguration.
It was better when those two were not around, or at least not in the library because when they were in the library but not around Kari found she had to cover her ears and pretend not to notice some very unimaginative breathless phrases echoing off the walls. As if that was not enough, they would normally reappear flushed and smiling from some hidden recess and he would command she show him whatever she had learned for his seal of disapproval and bimboob's excited seal clapping viewing pleasure. Oh god did she wish she could some how make it look like a spell gone wrong and disintegrate them both. Actually, was that even a genuine spell? Definitely something to look into in the future.
All in all, things were not going well in the magical department. Kari had failed to learn anything beyond how to successfully transform wax into runny wax though it was supposed to become a rabbit. Thankfully Loki was not around to catch wind of the transfiguration blundering as he had disappeared several days ago with a rather cryptic farewell about going to see a Mayan about a calendar. He sadly had not taken his pouting, sighing cleavage with him; which disturbingly had a name – Serana.
"Is my princy still gone?" Serana trailed back and forth searching her lover out half-heartedly around the library.
"Yes." Kari groaned continuing to try and read her book unsuccessfully.
"I am so lost without him."
"Mhmm."
"It is as if my heart has been torn from my body and dissolved in a pit of fire." She leaned melodramatically onto Loki's empty desk.
"What?" Kari squinted, looking up over her book but quickly adverting her eyes at the amount of boob bracing dangerously against the woman's tight attire.
"I miss my Loki so much."
"Ewww?" She grimaced then corrected herself somewhat sarcastically. "I mean… awww that's so sad?"
"Why do you persist in reading such dreary books?" Serana was now leaning over Kari's shoulder, rubbing a tit against the teenager's cheek in order to disapprove of the tome. "They have hardly any pictures."
"They have swirly patterns though." She leaned her head as far away as possible from all the inappropriate skin contact.
"Oh they do!" Serana bounced, giving an excited clap and jiggle as she spotted the obvious. "You know-"
"If I braided my hair and wore some nice dresses and a little make-up I might look sort of pretty."
"That is just as I was about to say."
"Funny that." Kari rolled her eyes and sighed with relief as the strange blonde finally got off her shoulder to pace the floor once again.
"Are you sure my princy has not returned."
"He ain't here is he?"
"I do not see him." Serana looked thoughtful then began searching the rows of shelves again, as if she may have missed her beloved somehow. "Loki? Pray tell you are within this dusty place?"
"You know what, I'm gonna head out and do some uh stuff." Kari was up, placing her book down and heading for the door for a hasty escape; it was not as if she could get any work done with bimboob around anyway.
"But what if he comes back? I am sure he wished for me to watch over his apprentice and if he should return and find you gone…"
"Loki really doesn't give that much of a fig, Serana." She laughed dryly. "Catch you later." Waving off Loki's girlfriend, she sighed out of the library muttering to herself disgruntled. "Hopefully not."
"I will come with you."
"Please don't." Oh god, the harlot was following her.
"Where are we to go?"
"Seriously, please don't come, it'll be dull and boring and stuff. I'm just going to the fields outside the city to see my friends."
"You have friends?" Serana was shocked as if such a concept had not occurred to her before.
"Surprisingly." Pain, death, these were all good things to happen to the crazy cleavage jiggling besides her right now.
"The fields?" The bimbo was caught up in a mystery of interesting thoughts as she continued to stalk her prey through the palace. "I have not journeyed there before. My mother always told not to leave the safety of the city. What excitement we might have."
"Please…." Kari Begged. "It's just a bunch of kids slinging mud at each other."
"What say you? Young goats do not sling mud, they have not the limbs to capacitate such an act." She giggled, slapping Kari lightly on the arm for her folly.
"No… children." She corrected with an aggravated snort.
"Children and goats slinging mud in a field? This does not sound hygienic."
"Oh my god…" Kari palmed her face, needing a moment to reboot her cognitive abilities as she trailed her hand down her face only to see a shining ray amongst dark clouds. "Hey Balder."
"Balder the brave." Serana cut in ahead of her, practically throwing herself at the approaching warrior with a seductive smile. "How I have longed to meet you. Tales of your heroism have made me swoon so since I was but a girl."
"You embarrass me, my lady." Balder was captivated, his eyes captured longingly in her attentions on him and also possibly the odd little shoulder shake she was doing.
"Uh… Serana, remember Loki?" Kari was not about to let her have her man too.
"I am sure he will return soon." Serana shrugged, taking a step closer to the intrigued warrior and placing her hand ever so gently on his arm. "She worries so for her master."
"He is not my master." Kari scowled, arms folded and trying to move in closer to get between the pair unsuccessfully. "He just sometimes turns up to make a sarcastic comment about my magic studies when not away or having loud sexy time with you behind the book shelves."
"I know not what you speak of!"
"Kari Fandralkin do not speak such slanderous lies about a lady of the kings court." Balder was suddenly furious, all his attention on the teenager so as to deal out some harsh words. "I had expected better of your character."
"What? Seriously?" She could not help it, getting shouted at for telling the truth kind of made her act crazy. "Am I missing some sort of horrible joke here because I am not finding it funny. She's about as much a lady as I am a unicorn and she's probably slept with more men than me. Definitely when it comes to the residence of the palace."
"I will hear no more." Balder waved her off, turning his back to Kari in order to shield Serana's eyes from the wretch. "Lady Serana, please allow I to escort you safely from this common wench's presence."
"Oh Balder." Serana swooned against the warrior's side allowing him to take her with him.
It was sickening, or at least her stomach was swirling furiously with a mixture of emotions to the point she felt like puking. What had just happened? Serana and Balder? Balder and Serana? No, it could not happen, Serana was with Loki after being with Fandral and before that who knows. How could Balder be so stupid? How could he go off with that? It was just a pair of tits wearing a blonde wig for goodness sakes. How could he not believe her and call her a 'common wench' as well? After all that flirting and time practicing together in the training yard. All that hard work ruined by a cheap hussy that had been making her life hell for a while now anyway.
"Oh Balder." She mocked the tarts last words. "Fucking bitch."
"Fandralkin!" Another bimbo appeared from somewhere behind her, exalted as he always was but soon taking preemptive step back at the look she shot him. "The fury in your eyes does not suit your fairness"
"Don't start."
"I meant no offence." Thor raised his hands in surrender at her vicious tone.
"I know!" Kari stamped the floor good and hard with a growl to calm down. "It's not you it's… that… woman your brother has been… the blonde one with the big boobs."
"Serana?"
"Yeah! Have you slept with her as well?" She pointed an accusing finger at the god of Thunder taking him by surprise.
"I should not like to-"
"Whatever! That fucking whore just started on Balder and tried to insinuate Loki is my master and then Balder got mad at me because I said it how it was with how that harpy has been really loudly screwing around with your brother in the library when I'm trying to study and that's not even the half of it. Then Balder got all chivalrous and called me a common wench. I am not a common wench!"
"I believe I follow." Thor grinned. "You take the betrayal against my brother very seriously."
"What?" Her eyes refocused on him, distrustful of the cheeky amusement plastered all over the prince's face.
"No use in hiding it from me, Fandralkin. I have had my suspicions you are attracted to my brother for some time now."
"What?!" She abseiled backwards as if his words would somehow infect her with a Loki love virus.
"Do not deny it. The strange courtship the two of you dance-"
"No! NO! N. O. No!" She confirmed on repeat until his smiling face froze to accommodate room in his brain for listening. "There is no courtship or attraction or whatever between me and that snake you call a brother. I'm mad because Balder called me a common wench and went off with that whore."
"I know not what to say, Fandralkin." Thor shrugged.
"You could say, 'No, Kari, you're not a common wench and I'll go tell Balder that Serana is not what she seems and Kari was right.' That would be a good thing to say."
"Hahaha, you are a funny maiden." He leaned forward; clapping her shoulder and making her jostle to the side several steps from the force. "Strange, but a funny maiden."
"I'm serious, Thor." She made a garbled noise, clenching her fists as she stared upwards in the hope of beseeching some sort of deity to help her out. "Come on, you like helping damsels in distress and all that. Go make Balder not mad at me anymore." Looking down again, locking eyes with the head scratching bimbo as her body visibly relaxed, she tried pleading nicely with him. "Please. Pretty please with sugar on top."
"Very well." He sighed, looking very put upon as he wriggled out of her puppy dog stare. "But I do this not for you. For my brother's honor and my friend Balder's sake. Neither deserves to be made out such fools."
"Whatever." Kari chuckled, flinging her arms around his shoulders in order to pull him down for a grateful kiss on the cheek. "Thank you, Thor."