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[necrowmantic]

[Is he going to mention anything that happened during the power failures? Definitely not. Not when he could distract himself with something else. Anything else. And his voice now is as cheerful as it's ever been.]

Hey-o, Asgard! Super quick poll time. How many people here would skin me alive if given the chance?

[No reason. Actually, several reasons, but. He follows it with a laugh.]

Not that I'm volunteering... yet. But hypothetically. No consequences, no turnabout, just a good, straightforward flaying of Henrys!

...Or anyone, for that matter. If you could slaughter absolutely anyone here with absolutely no backlash, would you go for it? I mean, it's not like anything you do is gonna follow you back home, so you might as well go wild with it! Doesn't even have to be for any reason, though you can imagine one if you'd like. Maybe you're just curious as to how it feels! --It feels great, by the way.

I've asked before whether anyone had murdering experience, and was kinda surprised at the answer- but I'm wondering if that's changed at all for anyone, just from being here. A lot of folk haven't been in a war before, and I see a lot of people asking or offering lessons in fighting. Which is great and all, but how many have experience in killing? It's a totally different field! And it's kinda the one that counts when it comes down to it.

But getting back to the important question here: skinning of Henry, yes or no? I'll even return the favor, if you want, though I'm a little out of practice. But if anyone wants a gory death for any reason, I'm your guy!

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[theaccursed]

There are those who I would not need permission to kill, only the opportunity.

[A pause.]

... Your own fate is inconsequential to me.

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[necrowmantic]

Oh, sure. I don't usually look for permission either, but when it comes to other travellers it's been kinda helpful! What kind of opportunity do you need?

And sooo... is that a yes or no to the flaying? 'Cause you don't have to care a whit about someone to be willing to off them. I can just be another boring old soon-to-be-bleeding-excessively human.

[theaccursed]

Status of traveller has little meaning. I fought him across realms before. A change in world hardly grants Thor an escape from his fate, and any opportunity to see him dead is one I will take. [Talk about grudges.

... But wow, Henry, you're so weird.]

You have done nothing to incite a desire within me to see you flayed. See to it that my opinion does not change.

[necrowmantic]

Do you mean god-Thor, or other-Thor? 'Cause god-Thor's pretty great, he once turned my hands into live chickens!

[Laughing, because of course that's the sort of thing someone should be happy about.]

But either way, it must be convenient to have your mortal enemy here! Are you gonna kill him? ...Repeatedly, since we just pop back? And hey, I'd be great flaying practice! But what would it take to get you to change opinions, huh?

[theaccursed]

I speak of Thor, the traveller. [They both sound equally repulsive, though-]

A death in repetition will soon lose its significance. I will see him dead in front of those who would be most torn by his passing. Let the very sight of his body haunt their nightmares for ages to come, so that his spirit will lie in unrest knowing the torment his visage has caused-

[-he'll stop himself. It's a public feed and Malekith will find no grace from others in letting his anger flare.]

... You are too eager to earn my ire, boy.

[necrowmantic]

Wow, it sure sounds like you've put some thought into it! I usually just blast foes away 'cause it's fun, but you have a whole plan of suffering there! So what're you gonna do to him to inflict maximum wailing and gnashing of teeth?

[Encouraging!]

And I don't necessarily WANT to get you mad at me, I just wanna know what it would take to earn a good flaying!

[theaccursed]

Understand that he destroyed my involvement in an event that takes place but once every five-thousand years. It is the second time I have missed using its advantage, and a reason worthy of my wrath. [And Thor is Asgardian, but that is a whole other bucket of grudges that has no need to be upturned.] His is a crime whose punishment must be far worse than a mere flaying.

Still, since we are speaking hypothetically- [Right?] -I would consider the act of flaying to be a severe sentence. It is not one assigned purely upon whim, nor would it be spontaneous. A fitting end for the defeated of a long lasted blood feud, perhaps.

[necrowmantic]

Wow, that's a long time to wait! Sucks for you, huh? Nya ha! I bet even flaying him twice wouldn't make up for that.

And hypothetically. Totally. But a blood feud's pretty hard to arrange here- you wouldn't settle for some minor irritations, a threat or two?

[theaccursed]

You jest, and yet I find myself wonderfully unamused. [His is a tone that carries a second message: Mind your tongue, Henry.]

Forbid that I should find myself irritated. I could not promise a flaying, but I would not be above a tongue lost or teeth pulled - injury that would promise you never forget your discretion with me.

[necrowmantic]

Ooh, really? Don't get my hopes up!

[The laugh is not quite eager, but it's obvious that he doesn't mind the threat.]

But I'm not jesting at all. I know it's hard to tell the difference sometimes. But you don't have to worry about me forgetting; I always remember a good gory injury.

[theaccursed]

[How relentless. The edge of exasperation that Malekith finds himself on manifests itself in the way he rubs a hand across his brow, soothing away his mild frustration.]

You will find others to indulge you in your fantasies of self mutilation, I have no doubt. Unfortunately, I have other ways in which I must spend my time. [Such as looking for those aforementioned opportunities.]