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[subecho]

Release your hold on me, witch woman. Asgard wishes me returned and you do not stand as strong as Heimdall to bar my path.

You've taken madness for your mantle if you do not see enough of my kind walking your world already.

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[flaerd]

No.

No they are not.

He is not my father.
You are not my brother.
Aesir are not my kin.

[subecho]

I refuse to be anything but a brother to you. In good or in ill, that is what we have been raised to be.

[flaerd]

[ Please allow him a moment to regain composure. ]



Then you're exactly the fool I always thought you of.

[subecho]

I am Thor, son of Odin, first and last defence of Asgard and the one who came to take you home, brother. In chains, or of your agreement. If that is a fool, then I am he.

[flaerd]

And I?




Am I lie. What repairing do you think these chains might do? It changes nothing.

[subecho]

You will stand trial before the All-Father. You will take your sentence. You will repent. If there is still good in your heart, you will repent. And then we will have you returned amongst us.

[flaerd]

And if there is no heart left?

[subecho]

Then we will see where it has gone.

[flaerd]

Your heart will be your undoing. I'm not of Asgard and I no longer wish to be.

[subecho]

Your kinsmen aren't armour you can relinquish when you choose, Loki. We're part of it. Like it or not.

[flaerd]

Kin?

I have it not. Your father made it sure that I'd be mutt and foul blood when he took me and cursed me to be neither and both.

[subecho]

If you deny your father, you still had a brother and you had friends. Asgards was ripe and yours. And you turned from it. Remember that.

[flaerd]

[ This hurts more than he'd like to admit. ]

I had tolerance for I was a fooled Son of Odin. You'd not dare to speak that Asgard welcomed me, a mage among warriors.

All I had was the road you left for me and your trails of glory blood. If I'd not followed them, they'd have thought even worse.

[subecho]

You - you -

[ Mentally flips a loaded table. ]

Are beyond reason when you wish it.

[flaerd]

[ This is what happens when you mix two extraordinarily stubborn species. ]

Oh. [ You know this smile, Thor. ] Have I angered the Thunderer? I speak nothing but reason. It is you that cannot see what lay beneath your shining crown.

You never could. You never cared to.

[subecho]

You are right. It is all a fault of mine. When Mjölnir came to my hand, I should have sent it after your head once or thrice to set your thoughts in their proper place. I failed to.

[flaerd]

Oh, I'm sure you'll make up for it. Brother.

[subecho]

I'll do what I can for such a small target.

[flaerd]

[ How petty and like you ]

There's a Midgardian quote coming to mind. Something about being large and falling hard.

I guess we'll see how it holds.

[subecho]

Of course. I would not wish to keep you from your next attempt against my life and that of everyone I am sworn to protect.

[flaerd]

That'd too cruel, but what if this is my ambition no longer?