My greatest hero

chapter 40

For the next few days Embrey always came to watch the torture. she always laughed when he tried to hold back screaming, and mocked when he wasn't able to. Sometimes she would pretend to be kind, she would let him off the chains and act like she was concerned, stroking his face, or giving him something to drink. but those times where always horrible to loki even though she wasn't physically hurting him. One day Embrey told the torture to "silence him" and he did just that, she was getting tired of his screaming and had the torturer sew his mouth shut, now all he could do was scream in his throat, he wanted to call Eira's name, he wanted to plead with Embrey, beg her to stop, but he couldn't do either, he couldn't even open his mouth. He started to wish they would just kill him, end his misery. One day Embrey didn't show up to watch. He was being beaten like he had been everyday, he couldn't even put any weight on his legs, he was too week to support his own weight, he was being held up completely by the shackles on his wrists. The the torturer saw the he was about to pass out, so he got a bucket of salt water and was about to pour it on him when the door opened and a man walked in.
"What is the meaning of this?" The torturer demanded, he didn't like being interrupted. Loki looked up and saw the man standing in the doorway, he was taller and stronger than the man that was already with him, and he was wearing a hood that covered his face "The queen has ordered me to finish for today" the man said in a deep voice that almost sounded fake, but loki knew he had heard it before. The torturer angrily handing the other man his whip, and left the room. Right as the door shut loki felt his heart beat faster. The man came over to him quickly and started fumbling around, trying find a key.
"Loki, are you okay?" He asked, finding the key and unlocking the shackles. Loki knew his voice now, it was Thor. Thor helped loki down to the floor, gently letting him sit down for a moment, he saw a piece of cloth tied around his mouth, he started to untie it but loki pulled away a little frantically, as if he was afraid of Thor.
Hey, it's okay, I'm here to take you back to asgard" he told him, trying to calm him down. Loki didn't believe it was even real, he thought it was a dream. He couldn't keep his eyes open, he was about to pass out again. Thor heard things start to get crazy outside. He knew this was the time to go. Thor wrapped a blanket around loki so he wouldn't hurt him further, he picked him up and started to head out. Loki couldn't see, or hear anything very well, he could only hear noises and what sounded like people frantically running around. Then he felt himself being laid down on the ground outside.
"Make sure he stays safe" he heard Thor say to someone. Thor was now trying to get the rest of their people to safety, a battle had started after they noticed loki had been taken, and they were now trying to fight them off. They were able to take down most of the enemy soldiers, but they needed to get back to asgard, Thor found his worriers and commanded them to leave the fight and run to the bifrost site. There weren't very many of them, but they all made it to the site ahead of the eldjötnar.
"Hiemdall, open the bifrost!" Thor shouted, a beam of light shot down over him loki, and their small army, and they were all back on asgard. Thor quickly brought loki to the healing room, but told all the healers to wait, he knew Eira would want to take care of loki."Go inform lady Eira that loki is here and needs her help" he commanded to a guard. The guard nodded, and in practically no time at all, Eira was walking through the door.
"Loki" she said running over to him. "Is he okay?" She asked, tears forming in her eyes.
"He'll live, he just needs a bit of attention" Thor told her. She nodded.
"But don't take that off" he said, pointing the cloth around lokis mouth.
"Why not?" She asked.
"I don't know, but he freaked out when I tried to" he told her. She was about to start cleaning his wounds, but noticed that there was blood all over him, even where there were no wounds, she took a wet towel and gently started trying to clean the dried blood off of him, but she couldn't, She was scared, and started crying. The healers in the room didn't know what to do, thors told them to wait, but Eira needed help.
"It's okay, we'll take care of him" Afya told her, seeing how anxious she was, her and Eira had become close friends, and she could see how anxious Eira was. Afya held Eira in a close hug, letting her cry while the others prepared things for loki.