001 || day 368 || video

[asofwar]

[By some miracle of being better prepared for nonsense because she just took a trip to the land of nonsense not two hours ago poking at buttons incessantly and almost breaking her watch before spotting someone in the hallways operating it and copying them nature, Sif has managed to turn on the recording. But 75% of the population might regret it, when they're treated to the angriest look ever.] Loki.

[You know how some people can communicate with one word things like I was gone for two hours, and you left Asgard go to the dumps, what the hell is wrong with you? Yes.] Am I to believe that in the blink of an eye you have brought so much destruction onto Asgard that we are forced to not only ask for reinforcements, but force them? What trick is this?

Show yourself, and face the consequences of your choices, as a good King would. [There is a pause.] Or is this to be my punishment... [Let's talk about traitors to the Throne, shall we? Aha mhm. Nope.] If this is the result of your reign, then all the fewer reasons to regret my choice.

[One more pause. Hold on. Wait for it. Wait. For. I-] That note was stupid.

[ooc; AND hello.]

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[asofwar]

And if I win, you will polish all my weapons for double that. [Pause.] I would have you bearing cups, but you are, after all, the prince.

[Though it sounds like she's calling him a pain in the ass.]

[subecho]

...you don't trust me with glass, do you.

[asofwar]

I trust you to break it well.

[subecho]

I held suspicion.

[ Paaaaause. ]

Ask now what you need known, Sif. Then, we speak no more of it.

[asofwar]

You stall my hunt. [And the humour is gone.]

I have too many questions.

[subecho]

And I too few answers. We are poorly matched in this.

[asofwar]

How long since you came here?

[subecho]

Under twenty days, by my count. I lost the track on one occasion, but I do not believe time to have passed differently. Last I knew of Asgard, I was meant to return to it with Loki in chains.

[asofwar]

Loki in chains?

[subecho]

My brother - our brother... Loki yet lives, Sif. He has fled to bring war unto Midgard, with the Tesseract at his side. He has been captured, and...

I cannot speak for the All-Father's mercy in this. He mourned a son. Now, he will mourn a traitor.

[asofwar]

Loki died? [ALL THE SPOILERS, THOR.]

How? Did we - [kill him?]

[subecho]

We thought him fallen with the Bifrost.

He was not. That is... that news pleases. Past it, little else.

[asofwar]

It seems I have fallen behind.

[subecho]

Excuses, excuses. Shall I ready my cup?

[asofwar]

Be serious. I cannot hunt you down after such news.

[Pause.] Well. I could. But this is not easy news to hear.

[subecho]

I cannot soften it for you, and you cannot ask it of me.

[asofwar]

I would not ask that you soften it, I ask that you elaborate.

[subecho]

And tell you what more? How did Loki survive? I do not know it. He is of sorcery, he has the skill. We have always known it to be so.

[asofwar]

No - [Who wants to hear gruesome stories about Loki dying anyway, not this guy.] - why do you bring him back in chains?

[subecho]

Because he unleashed an army of chaos-spawn upon Midgard. Knowingly, and with purpose to reap a kingdom of it. We are protectors of the realms, Sif. We cannot condone -

[ ...wait. ]

Do you mean to ask why I return with him alive at all?

[asofwar]

[We, is it? Is Midgard not his - well, no. Where he goes, Sif follows. So, yes - we, she supposes.]

Should I?

[subecho]

He is my brother.

[asofwar]

I know. Why do you think I did not ask?

[subecho]

What more is there to say? He will have rule - of the prisons and his own mind.

[asofwar]

[Long, long silence.]

He will want more.