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Post by Thor on Dec 16, 2013 14:40:31 GMT -5
Thor smiled at him, doing his best to hide the tone of that smile. "Indeed, only goodness of heart, and other things, as I hear it."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 16, 2013 14:43:03 GMT -5
Loki's smile vanished from his eyes but remained on his mouth.
"Indeed."
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Post by Thor on Dec 16, 2013 14:47:18 GMT -5
"Loki, she seems to love you very much," said Thor in a lowered voice.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 17, 2013 14:52:59 GMT -5
"That's not the part that concerns me."
He started rifling through the sandwich supplies himself and building one.
"I had two choices. I could have come here in a blaze of glory, declared myself a benevolent god from the start, and attempted to bend this planet to my will the way Odin might have done."
Loki smiled tightly as he squeezed a bit of ranch dressing onto the bread.
"I've heard a few hints about how that story ends, and we're all better off not in it."
He added a few more slices of cheese.
"Alternately, I could have resigned myself to my fallen status from the start. Lived among humans, passed for one, grappled for meager success among them and waited for my mortality to kick in."
He pressed the bread on top of the finished sandwich.
"And instead, I chose some foolhardy and unsatisfying combination of the two, and in the process I discovered myself to have quite severely overestimated my aptitude at both of them while no longer desiring either of them. The difference between you and I, of course, is that your lack of satisfaction is temporary."
He said this with a surprising lack of malice, sighing and leaning on the counter again.
"Jane Foster will grow up again. One day, Odin will leave the throne in one way or another, though I know not whether I envy you the latter anymore."
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Post by Thor on Dec 17, 2013 21:27:11 GMT -5
Thor looked immediately away at the mention of Jane Foster's name. There was still something horribly unsavory in the notion of waiting for a child to grow up, and he had not reached a point yet where he could handle hearing of her.
"Our as yet unborn siblings will succeed me on the throne; I have refused Odin's offers to relinquish it to me."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 18, 2013 21:42:34 GMT -5
"...sibling...ssss?" Loki said slowly. "As in, siblings in the plural-"
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Post by Thor on Dec 18, 2013 22:17:53 GMT -5
"Mother is pregnant with twins. You know how Mother's ability to know such things; both of them will be boys, and whichever is the firstborn of them will rule. She has planned their names already."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 19, 2013 15:33:28 GMT -5
Loki went very still and frowned. He lowered the sandwich.
The frown abruptly erupted into a brittle laugh and a grin.
"Twin boys?" he said, very lightly, with just a bit of a tremble to his voice. "Surely not- not Balder and Hoder?"
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Post by Thor on Dec 19, 2013 19:43:46 GMT -5
"Have you spoken to her?" asked Thor with the smallest frown.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 19, 2013 20:49:49 GMT -5
Loki delicately pressed his hands to the counter so that they couldn't shake.
"No. I haven't gone back to Asgard."
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Post by Thor on Dec 19, 2013 20:52:01 GMT -5
Thor still did not put together how Loki could have made such a sound guess, but he shrugged it off. He did not question his brother's ways; Loki was far more quick-witted than he was.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 19, 2013 20:55:06 GMT -5
"Is she absolutely decided?" he asked, with a small break in his voice that he couldn't conceal this time. "I mean-"
He pushed his hair back, trying to sound casual.
"I mean, really, are people really naming their sons Hoder these days? Is that something else I missed while I was gone?"
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Post by Thor on Dec 19, 2013 20:55:44 GMT -5
Thor chuckled around his sandwich.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 19, 2013 21:04:49 GMT -5
"Excuse me for a moment, I have to go get something."
All that was visible on Thor's end, however, was Loki's position seeming to change too quickly and with no in-between motion. He was now standing about two feet from where he'd been before, and had a book with a blue paper cover in his hands.
"Teja bought this for me the morning she discovered who I am," he said, opening it to a picture of a scowling, skinny figure in a meager-looking tunic glaring back at a furious-looking man in armor and a billowing cape, carrying a hammer and clearly pursuing the first man in anger. Beneath it, in elaborate script, were the words Loki Against the Aesir. He pushed the open book across the counter at Thor.
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Post by Thor on Dec 20, 2013 15:07:49 GMT -5
Thor perused it, frown deepening into heavy creases.
"What is this? A poor attempt at humor-"
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