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]

Loki died? [ALL THE SPOILERS, THOR.]

How? Did we - [kill him?]

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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.

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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?

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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.

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He will take what he is allowed, and so I swear to you, Sif, he will be grateful. He will crawl and he will beg and he will make his amends, and I will break his every bone of its madness, if I must. He has no say. He has no claim. He has nothing.

[asofwar]

It seems he still has you.

[subecho]

He has nothing.

[asofwar]

[Some non-committal sound here. Then, pause. Then,]

When he was King, I - we - disobeyed to come and get you. Did we wrong?

[subecho]

Wrong whom?

[asofwar]

Asgard.

[subecho]

I cannot say. Who knows the king Loki may have proven myself? Perhaps... tempered. Wise. At peace, with command in hand. You wish me to say he would have done Asgard injustice: perhaps. And perhaps not so.

[asofwar]

...I do wonder, then. [Self-blame in 3, 2,...]

[subecho]

You think I do not? Where have we failed him? What words more need have been spoken? What gesture done? What slight removed?

[asofwar]

[A nod of understanding. And then-] All we have done has already been done. Lingering on it has no point.