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Chapter 147

Chapter 147
The hallways were empty, as expected. Half way through the night Cephera had changed her clothes to have one battle with her sister. She hadn't faired too bad. She'd improved, but still her sister won.
It had been exciting for all their people to witness it, as Cephera almost never joined in for such things. She obliged them one fight, Loki watching with Ikol in his arms.
The fight seemed to make her son hyper and Seraphina had insisted he be let into the sand pit. Cephera had allowed it. It would be his first time. Ikol faltered on the soft sand and seemed amazed by the way it made his feet unsteady.
Seraphina, of course, didn't strike him, but Ikol certainly knew what the pit was for. He made his way to Seraphina on slippery feet and when he reached her Seraphina allowed him to hit her, much to her regret.
Seraphina and the wall behind her collided and she gasped at the action. Their father burst out laughing and slapped the man next to him on the back which caused him to fall into the pit. No one really knew what to do with the child. After all, kids his age would be trained with the very basics, but clearly Ikol skipped a few years where his strength was concerned.
Loki had jumped in after Ikol knocked the second man down while laughing and plucked him from the sandy floor. "Stop," Loki demanded his son in a very stern manner. Ikol wouldn't dare touch his father, but he did glare at him.
When Ikol was safely in her arms, Cephera took him off to put him to bed. A feat that took her almost an hour to accomplish. Afterwards, she took her chances.
She headed toward the infirmary wings which is how she ended up wandering down deserted hallways. She reached the room she'd been searching for and found Krystoffs five children sat near Katarina's bedside.
"I'd speak with Katarina alone." She told them, hinting for them to leave. They gave their aunt a glance for permission to leave her alone and when it was given they all left with Sulu glaring at Cephera along the way.
"What brings you here. I feel as though I haven't seen any of the royal family since my recovering began," she said. Her usual high and mighty tone was taken down a notch. Her eyes sunken in and her face gaunt and paler. Her beauty was hidden beneath the wear and tear of the dark magic she'd been poisoned with.
"I'm sorry...,"
"Don't bother with apologies. I'm not a fool to think everything is okay between myself and the kingdom." Katarina turned her head to look toward the window.
Cephera pitied her. Everything that had happened to her, Cephera couldn't find it in herself to hate her. She'd been manipulated by her own father. The man who allowed Krystoff to abuse and use her to his own sick fantasies. Not to mention the countless bruises and broken bones Katarina had when she'd been brought to the infirmary wing almost three years ago.
The King had to make a hard choice. Katarina's only chance at survival was to terminate her pregnancy and hope she'd survive the dark magic as it vacated her body or allow her to give birth and die in the process.
Neither option was ideal, but the bruises she had told them that Krystoff beat her in an attempt to kill the baby. The damage to her sternum was extensive and the child wasn't showing life inside her. It was possible her growth was due to the dark magic and not actually the child's development. They believed the child already dead.
Katarina went through the only termination ever performed to their kind and she lost the one thing in this world that they'd always been taught were precious. She, however, did survive, but she was only now getting well enough to even sit up.
"I felt you should know that I have no hard feelings toward you and your part played with Krystoff," Cephera said.
"Yes. You would think that way. You were always a fool to forgive so easily. I don't need your forgiveness. I don't need your pity." Katarina hadn't even turned her eyes back to look at Cephera as she spoke. "I've come to find out my mother is alive," she said after a short pause.
"And?" Cephera urged her to continue.
"Myself and Krystoff's five children are planning to go find her and live with her. Mechanova will never be the home it once was. I don't want to stay here among those who will look upon me with pity or hatred." Katarina sounded almost sad.
Cephera would have liked to assure Katarina that Mechanova held no ill will against her, but it wasn't true. Many of the people wanted her locked up with her father, but even Seraphina felt conflicted over Katarina's silence.
Placing themselves in Katarina's shoes made it hard to pass judgement on her. She'd been afraid for her life and rightly so. Krystoff was not just corrupt he was ruthless. Had they never known the physical abuse she'd suffered they might have locked her away, but it seemed she'd already been through so much.
"Perhaps you'll find happiness there," Cephera said instead. She couldn't argue that leaving Mechanova wasn't a good idea, because for Katarina it was probably for the best.
"You really think happiness exists for everyone." Katarina nearly laughed. "I don't care about that. I just want solitude."
Cephera frowned. Everyone deserved happiness. Even Krystoff back before the dark magic completely corrupted him. If he had found a shred of true happiness, he might not have turned out the way he had. The sad truth was that the real monster behind all this was Demos.
He'd done this to his daughter by tainting Krystoff. Even when Krystoff became dangerous Demos allowed him to run free. Even tried to hide his daughter away to suffer in agony as her pregnancy began to kill her. Demos was the only monster of them all, the rest of them pawns in his game.
"When will you go?" Cephera asked.
"As soon as possible." Katarina replied.
"Good luck then. I really do bid you a happy future. You have a chance to create one now, take it." Cephera wished Katarina would look at her, but she did not.
"Goodbye little Princess," was all she said and Cephera took that as the ending to their somewhat awkward conversation. Cephera left the room and as she exited, the five others stepped back in closing the door behind them.
XxX
"Did you get the answers you were looking for?" Loki's voice startled Cephera on her way back to the celebration.
Cephera saw her husband waiting for her in the dark at the bottom of the stairwell. "I didn't go to ask questions." Cephera replied. Loki stared at her in the dark and then offered her his arm.
"Show me the lake." He told her. Cephera obliged and walked him out one of the main floors archways and through the garden till they finally reached the main exit in the front of the palace.
They walked in silence with the magic moons above lighting the way. She knew the pathways to the lake with ease. She could close her eyes and use her bare feet to follow it. The lake had been one of the many getaway places for herself and Seraphina.
"I've been thinking," Loki began to say by the time they'd walked past the shallow part of the lake. "This lake, you said years ago was big enough for Jör, but the deepest parts held creatures that might harm him."
"That's right. That was a long time ago." Cephera thought way back to that. It had been when Jör was becoming too big for even Asgards lake. "This eventually leads to an ocean. Because this world is sustained by magic, the magic overtime has created creatures we have no control over." She explained.
"Did you see him? How lively he looked in Asgard after the war. Even though the water barely covered all of him at once, he was glad to be around us all." Loki mused and Cephera wondered what he was thinking. "He's big, strong. Much stronger now than he's ever been."
"I agree." Cephera nodded. "Are you thinking we should move him here?" Cephera asked.
"I am. On Midgard he must hide from the humans, but here he'd be free." Loki looked down at her with a hint of something in his eyes.
"What?" She asked thinking he meant to throw her into the water for fun, but he didn't.
"Over there." He pointed and Cephera looked at the land in question. The palace ended and a meadow began with the forest behind it. "Picture now a manor of sorts along that shoreline. A waypoint for Fenrir to still venture to aide the Valkyrie and Jör with free range of the lake and ocean. Myself, you, Ikol and any other children we might have living inside the manor not too far from your family and people."
Cephera sucked in a breath at the thought. "You wish to leave Asgard?" She was both surprised and excited. With the new laws Loki could live in Mechanova with her.
"Asgard knows what I have done and I think it is time I move out from under my parents roof, don't you?" He was smiling and it made her wonder how long he'd been thinking about it. All of them as a family living close together.
"Oh Loki. You mean it? All of use in the one home!" Cephera began to hop a little in one place, the excitement building in her.
"I mean it. The Byfrost connects here with Asgard, it's not like I cannot go back."
Cephera threw herself into her husbands arms. "I love you. I love you more than anything!" She squealed and squeezed him till he nearly choked for air.
"Calm yourself," he told her but she wasn't listening. She let him go and ran to the waters very edge. "The forest spans acres back that way. Fenrir could run wild in them and the fields, and even follow his brother along the waters edge. We could maybe create a glass room below the house so we can see below the water." She ran up the lake and pointed. "If Tony and Bruce's Theory works, the future children can all play in the courtyard over there. We'll have my father create a new entrance, maybe a small pathway connecting us."
The possibilities were endless and Cephera's mind was running wild. This was how life should be. No wars, no fighting. Just a happy life with her friends and family.

Notes

Still not the end! Lol

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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