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Chapter 11

Chapter 11
Loki was very good at hiding his enthusiasm when the girls were announced as they arrived in Asgards palace. He wouldn't admit it to anyone, but he had been waiting for this day. He was truly looking forward to starting his training with the younger sister. He had made so many plans in that one week she had been gone, and he was eager to get started. Loki had been with Thor and their inscriptions teacher when the announcement came. Both princes excused themselves from their studies and left to greet them.
They found both girls in the throne room greeting and speaking with Odin. "Ladies, it is good to see we have not scared you off." Thor bellowed stretching his arms out happily.
"It's take much more than our last visit to scare us." Seraphina replied with arrogance.
"That's wonderful although I must warn you things do get stranger." Thor was flirting and Loki tried to hold back his eye-roll.
"I hope you have been studying," Loki said to Cephera his tone plain as he controlled his outward appearance.
"Everyday!" She replied enthusiastically her head nodding making her bangs fall into her eyes to be blown away, a ridiculous smile on her face. For a second Loki wondered if he had made a good choice.
"Good. I am free after the last meal of the day to see just how much you've truly learned." He told her eyeing her and noticing the death look coming from her sister. He didn't directly look at the sister, but he did glance at her out of the corner of his eye.
"My ever helpful brother." Thor beamed and clapped a hand on Loki's shoulder shaking sideways. "Come, the warriors three have been asking when you would return. Thor walked off with Cephera right behind him Loki took up the rear, but Seraphina stopped him, grabbing his upper arm hard.
"If you harm her in any manner, I will cut off your cock and shove it down your throat so that you may choke to death on it." Seraphina warned Loki in a tone only he could hear.
"Do not worry, I will trained your sister as I promised I would." He replied not promising not to hurt her. He gave the younger one her warnings before she agreed to the training and he wouldn't retract his warnings now. Seraphina glared at him, but said no more. She was rather violent and Loki knew she meant her words. The though disturbed him slightly. Seraphina let him go and together they followed the others.
XxX
Training with Cephera went well. She had done as he had asked and studied hard. She didn't quite get through the whole book, but it was enough to satisfy him. He spent the next three days helping her read the language before he decided she was ready to practice some real magic.
"Moving objects from point A to point B." Loki stated holding out an apple. He didn't fail to notice she always grabbed one when she got hungry between meals. Loki prided himself on his observation skills and he assumed this item was her favorite. She smiled when she saw the apple. He, however, placed it on the table three feet from her. "Know now that you will never move anything heavier than ten pounds with this spell, it would simply take to much mental effort." He told her.
"What do I do?" She asked looking at the apple and then to him.
"Speak the words of movement while concentrating on the right object. Make the apple move and it's yours to eat." He told her. "Remember tone is important as is concentration. Don't worry about how loud you say the words as over time you'll learn to utter them almost soundlessly." She nodded. Loki moved to the side and behind her were he would not be in her line of vision. "You may start." He told her.
He listened to the words pass her lips and instantly she pronounced it wrong. "Stop," He said. "You need to make sure every syllable is perfectly intact. You are shortening your 'S' and therefore it will not work. Again." He commanded. When she spoke this time she said it right, but instead of the apple moving the sound of something breaking behind them had Loki turning his head. Water from the small pitcher was coating the floor between glass shards.
"Sorry. I'm thirsty." She told him sheepishly. Loki sighed. He grabbed a glass and poured her some water from the second pitcher. When she was done she tried again ... and again. She tried at least fifteen times before the apple wobbled. Loki was biting his lip. He wondered what happened to the girl who had enough power to pin him to a wall. This girl was not showing the same power as he thought she was capable of and he felt somewhat cheated.
A thought occurred to him then. As she tried again Loki blew across her ear making her shake her head and lose concentration. "No fair." She pouted scratching her ear.
"Try again." He demanded. She eyed him, but didn't refuse. She tired again and this time he pinched the back of her arm.
"Ow, how and I suppose to do this if I can't concentrate?" She insisted.
"Again." Loki commanded ignoring her rising irritation. With a exasperated puff of air she turned back to the apple. When she spoke the words Loki poked her in the side.
"Stop." She raised her voice her eyes narrowed and the apple flew across the room striking Loki in the face. Loki was pitched to his ass holding onto his nose. He was shocked and almost angry until he realized what she'd done. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" She was saying frantically kneeling beside him and looking as though she wasn't sure what to do.
"Don't be sorry. We need to talk about your emotion." He rubbed his nose and grabbed the apple. He handed it too her. The skin was now bruised on one side, but she took it all the same. "That feeling you get before you get irritated, I need you to learn to hone it. To tap into it. You don't have the fire in you to produce forceful spells. You're too passive." She was frowning.
"I don't want to be annoyed all the time." She pouted again.
"No I just mean you need to issue force behind your spell. You speak the words, but without any real emotion the spell falls flat. It's not just enough to say the words, you need to feel it. You're trying to let the words do the work for you and that's not how it works. I'd hate to think I'm wasting my time on a student who has no real passion for this." He told her standing.
"I do. I do have passion." She insisted clutching the apple between her palms. Loki gave a nod.
"You moved the apple. Eat and we will begin again." He told her. She looked down with a half smile. He watched her move the fruit to her lips, but before she bit in she inhaled its scent making her smile wider. Loki was curious to this habit of hers, but didn't question it. He patiently waited for her to finish -which didn't take long- and placed a second apple on the table. "Again." He told her.
(Cephera)
"So, how did it go? Have you moved on passed that silly book yet?" Seraphina asked entering the bedroom and eyeing her sister.
"It was fun and yes I made an apple move, twice." Seraphina chuckled.
"I wish magic came second nature to you. It seems a shame that you're forced to learn it so tediously." Her sister removed her dress and sprawled out on the bed beside Cephera. Cephera had been lying down reading a cute adventure tale she'd found in the library.
"I'm just glad at least one of us has this problem." Seraphina frowned and nodded. Had neither of them been unable to use the magic needed to rule their realm their father would have been in trouble, not to mention their people who counted on them to keep them alive. Without someone to control the power on their world the world and everyone connected to it would perish. That weight was on her sisters shoulders.
"So what else have you done with the younger prince?" Her sister asked raising a single eyebrow and leaning her head in her hand propped up at the elbow her body moved to lie on her side.
"Nothing." Cephera replied not completely understanding her sisters meaning.
"He hasn't touched you?" Seraphina walked two fingers up Cephera bare arm and Cephera got the hint.
"What! No! He's my teacher, my master nothing more." Cephera's face flushed red hot. She also didn't inherit the family libido.
"Ohhhh. Master is he! That's kinky." Seraphina was going out of her way to tease her little sister tonight and Cephera was not at all impressed.
"Stop. It's not like that. Besides I thought you told me to be careful of him in such a way." Seraphina laughed.
"I did, but I only warned you because I don't like his attitude and you get so easily attached to people. You wouldn't be able to have a casual sexual relationship if your life depended on it. If for some reason you did sleep with him I wouldn't actually be disappointed, but I'd certainly be concerned that you'd be expecting more than just sex." Cephera pursed her lips and with a shove she pushed her sister off the bed. Her sister cried out in surprise and hit the floor with a thud.
"You should know me better than to think I'd just randomly sleep with anyone anyway. One I'm not ready for such a thing, two I'm not interested in giving multiple people my body." She huffed and crossed her arms in irritation. Seraphina picked herself up off the floor, got back on the bed, and took her sister in her arms. Cephera allowed her to do so. Seraphina held her sister and stroked her hair.
"I'm sorry. I know. I'm just teasing you," She said regret in her tone. It wasn't that sex with different people was bad. Sex was viewed differently in their world. Because of their race they couldn't have children with people of Mechanovian blood. They had to out source and lots of sex usually was involved as they weren't very fertile people. There numbers had actually dropped over the years because children were hard to achieve. No one cared who, or how many people you slept with. Those the equivalent as whores were only that because they demanded money for the act. It was actually unusual for any of their kind to not engage in sex the moment their bodies were developed enough for it. Cephera might not have literally 'come of age', but her body was more than capable of sex.
She figured she wasn't so worried because her sister was the heir to the throne and Cephera was not in a hurry for children, not that her sister was, but it was more important for her sister to have a heir. There was a chance Cephera could have a child born with the royal magic, but the chances were slimmer. Age wasn't an issue for having children either. All children were embraced with open arms because they were so rare and a royal baby was celebrated for an entire week. When the king was blessed with twins the realm went crazy and celebrated for an entire month. Dancing, drinking, sex, cooing over the newborns. Apparently it was the longest and funniest party in the history of their realm.
"Well I don't like being teased about sex. I'm very serious about that and love." Seraphina gave a harsh heavy sigh.
"Cephera ..." She said sadly.
"I know, but for me love is more important. I can't give myself to anyone I don't love." Seraphina and Cephera had this talk before. Because of the low chances of conceiving with just anyone love was usually put low on the priority status. Children came first, if you could have a child at all - and for some it took hundreds of years to find the right partner for even that-. Most of their kind didn't marry and those who did ended up living a childless life because their loved one was not able to give them a child. It was a sad existence for those who chose love first, but unchangeable.
Seraphina said no more on the topic. She moved Cephera's book off the bed and pulled her sister down to sleep. Cephera cuddled close to her twin. She didn't feel bad about her decision to forsaken the chance for children if it meant finding her one true love. Even their father was beginning to understand that.

Notes

Comments

@fraychan
Then I have done my job well. :p

Yasumi Yasumi
6/15/15

Your cliff hangers wound me D:

fraychan fraychan
6/12/15

@fraychan
Keep that adrenaline pumping, still a lot to come.

Yasumi Yasumi
5/14/15

Oh god I can't even describe how happy this chapter made me. I'm feeling a slight adrenaline rush haha

fraychan fraychan
5/12/15

@fraychan
I agree, things have could been so much different if things had just come to light sooner.

Yasumi Yasumi
5/7/15