mun is a bundle of nerves. muse is not at all thrilled.

[frostling]

This is hardly cause to cast your disparagement onto me. As I recall, you'd been cautioned against this pursuit a number of times. Charming notion that it might be.

I, am meant to rule. I will not mill about as some meager entertainment, as some trifle to be discarded upon your whim. If you are too cowed to peruse our options, then I believe this arrangement no longer serves my interests.

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[snowmaiden]

[ All right, wait a minute there, mister! Sneggie doesn't like how you're treating your mun, and -- uh oh. Here she comes, feet padding against the ground, ice following her footsteps until she stops right in front of Loki, finger wagging in front of her. ] You treat mun so terrible! You should feel shame!

[notmonsters]

[Ugh, this guy.]

Figures even in a place where you don't make the rules you'd try to take over.

I'd lay off the mun-baiting if I were you--their tricks can be worse than any even YOU might try to pull--y'know what? On second thought, go for it.
Might be funny.

[frostling]

Tempting as that prospect does sound, I believe I'm going to decline.

[frostling]

The monster comes to offer me advice?

Why, I'm touched.

[snowmaiden]

[ Sneggie frowns, spins about on a heel -- hair flipping in Loki's face, little snowflakes trailing behind her. She makes a distinct humph! sound of indignation. ]

You are very bad.

[tordon]

Many experience a case of nerves upon beginning a daunting new task, brother.

[frostling]

And you very succinct.

[frostling]

And what task might that be.

[tordon]

You are foreign ground.

[ and gods know dealing with you is a skillset of it's own ]

[frostling]

And the mighty Thor fears she may become lost?
I am not so unknown to her, and have far grander schemes than this.

[tordon]

Do not twist my words, Loki. I say that she is tentative, not fearful.

I'm sure, like me, she has no doubts about your schemes.

[frostling]

Then it is well, for what has she to fear? If we are to negotiate, the lady and myself, a statement of terms is necessary.

Though in your haste for the throne I am unsurprised to know such diplomacies passed beyond your field of study.

[tordon]

[ his jaw clenches briefly; the boy he once was, eager to lead and race head first into battle— he has grown since then. he has learned. diplomacy, still, is not his forte, but he understand it better now.

he pointedly does not rise to the bait. ]

I suppose you would desire more than half the profit in such a case.

[frostling]

[ the sound is neither laughter nor admission- and perhaps all the more familiar for it. ]

Oh but you have not come all this way to speak to me of meager negotiations. To what do I owe the honor?

[tordon]

[ foolishly, he thought you might take heed of his words. boy never learns. he pauses a beat too long and finally settles, lamely, on: ]

I did not expect you.

[frostling]

That can't possibly be a new experience for you.

[tordon]

[ he frowns. ]

You don't intend to rule one of these worlds.

[ it's a state and a question both. ]

They are not as the places we have known.

[belovedone]

Careful; I would be wary of encouraging them to discard you so heartily. After all, what would happen to you then?

[frostling]

Tell me, then- was this also your question for the Allfather?
Was it asked what would happen to Loki when he first saw fit to discard me?

[frostling]

[ you thor should know best of all. to give loki both is to receive neither. ]

And what would you imagine of the places I have known?

[belovedone]

I highly doubt you wondered as much when you so heartily discarded him.

Do not attempt to wage war on me by playing at where you would see me fit with guilt, my son. Not when I only was trying to offer you my earnest advice.

[tordon]

That they are unlike what faces you here, brother.

[sociospatial]

You know, you're more charismatic in person.

[frostling]

As opposed to?

[frostling]

Earnest advice aside, I'm certain it becomes easier with practice.

[sociospatial]

Video. Can't invade a city full of people with cellphones and expect your face won't get famous.

[frostling]

I have always appreciated a captive audience.

[frostling]

Is this concern, Thor?

[sociospatial]

[ Quietly musing: ] I'd say you'd come off better on film than digital, myself. I'd say... five-minute interview, NBC. They'd be the best shot at getting final cut before airing. Fox is all wrong, ideologically, and CNN tries too hard to be principled. If not NBC, I'm sure there'd be another network.

[frostling]

[ this is not going according to plan ]

What?

[sociospatial]

...if I had to defend you. In court.

Julian Arenas.

I hear you're the god of chaos.

[tordon]

[ his temper flares ]

It is fact. Continue these provocations and your previous allies may pale in comparison to the consequences. She has great power over you, of which even you cannot talk your way out of.

[belovedone]

What does?

[frostling]

A delightful moniker, to be sure.

But what need have I of defense, Arenas, if I am after all, a god.

[frostling]

I have seen power Odinson. I have seen it in shapes and forms you can scarcely comprehend, and you believe I might yield now? That I would cower before one of your beloved cows of Midgard?

[ the bellow is broken off by a curve too sharp to be a smile. loki's voice softens without warning and it does not soothe. ]

What reason has Loki to fear?

[frostling]

Why, betrayal of course.

Was there any further advice you saw fit to leave me with? It appears that I continue to find myself with an excess of time and so little to spend it on.

[sociospatial]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you lost, friend, and if you come back the whole world's going to want to feed you to the sharks.

[tordon]

[ he doesn't flinch from the crack of Loki's voice, like through words alone he could fling lightning. Thor's grip flexes on his hammer, and though he makes no move to attack he does take half a step forward, an earnest gesture despite the cloud on his brow. ]

You underestimate this situation, brother. You have seen many things, of that I have no doubts, but we would be but puppets should they wish it.

[belovedone]

If I am the one here who stands accused of betrayal, I cannot help but feel forced to point out you would know the commission of it far better than I.