"Where do you think you're going? I want to hear your thoughts on my sentence. That was your sole purpose for staying here.", he said, and Phoenix ripped her hand away from him, purple lines lingering in the air between them.
Two of Odin's guards entered the throne room to find them like this, unsure if they should intervene when powers like that battled something out. King Odin and the witch didn't pay them any attention, so Jace and Kai took their usual places at either sides of the entrance door.
"I have new prophecies that long for my full attention, Allfather. I won't be at the court meeting this evening.", she explained shortly, while stepping down the last stairs from Odin's throne.
"I'm sure you won't miss me. I would only be a bother while you and your court men celebrate the lock away of your next child.", she added, anger betraying her voice.
Control, she thought to herself, taking a deep breath, banning her anger. She gestured away the seidr dropping from her fingertips, about to leave again, when Odin's thunderous voice stopped her.
"Are you questioning my sentence, oracle?"
"Am I that much of a threat to you?", she faced him, her sharp whisper surprising Odin.
He had spared Loki's life, just like Frigga and Phoenix wanted, so she really had no right whatsoever to come at him like that. She had no right to talk to him like that in general.
She had no power over him, in the world Odin had tried to build. A world in which his subjects looked down on seidr as a lesser power, as a womanly, meek thing only good for a bit of entertainment and not something to be afraid of.
He had almost succeeded.
But everyone who had seen Hela clear battlefields by swiftly creating daggers out of nowhere found themselves trembling with fear when fighting against someone who possessed seidr. Kai and Jace had lost themselves in Phoenix's voice while listening to one of her prophecies way too often, or had sensed Frigga's knowing, always knowing, look in their backs, a weird tingle in their heads as if she were reading their minds.
And then there was Loki.
Kai had fallen prey to his mischievous seidr way too many times, fully aware the snakes crawling up his legs could have been deadly ones if Loki only wished them to be.
In that regard, guards and the commoners were smarter than any of Odin's court men. It was never wise to underestimate dangerous people, they knew that much better than the king they served.
"You are nothing but an oracle.", he said, shrugging carelessly.
"We both know that is a lie.", she said, sure of herself. "I believed the years taught you compassion and not only –"
"Compassion has no place in the heart of a king and a judge.", he interrupted her, holding on tighter to Gungnir.
"If not there, where then? If a judge shows no mercy, and a king no compassion, this monarchy, in no time, will be something else entirely.", Phoenix explained.
"Watch your tongue, oracle.", the king growled, trying to stare her down.
"The way you do?", she jutted her chin forward, reciprocating his stare. "I don't have to, I'm by far not as terrified of the truth as you are. You can hide it beneath gold however long you want. I will never forget what and who you once were. She won't either.", her words echoed through the throne room.
Odin loathed himself for how terrified he looked around for a moment, as if to check if it was really empty safe for Phoenix, him and the two guards watching the scene, not sure if they should intervene.
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The Villain
Fanfiction[second part of The Soldier] Maybe Tessa's place just stays the losing side. Left behind on Midgard, the former soldier has to deal with losing yet another person because she can't reach them in time. Finding no answers to any of her questions rega...
