how about that reserved list, eh?

[snaketrap]

Be it wise that you mind your thoughts and words lest I take your tongue and snap your fingers, mortal.

'Tis a convenience, if anything, and I'll not have you causing such mess of it.
There are more pressing matters. Or those of higher interest, at least.

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[fervidus]

Enjoy your ill gained allies while you can.

I will make them see the truth of you soon enough.

[snaketrap]

[ He clamps his lips shut, but oh. That wicked smile.] Ill gained?

[ A crook of his head. ] Tis not as such, oh valiant one. But do entertain me.

[fervidus]

One can not be sworn an ally without knowing the truth in their character.

[A snort.]

I doubt you have been so forthcoming.

[snaketrap]

And doubt you know but a hair of truth save from the words of your thunderer. No creature so thick as he.

Come tell me my falling so I might laugh at your ignorance. How I do ache for a good joke.

[egodefence]

You know, I can't tell if you're expecting friends or enemies.

[fervidus]

You tried to exterminate a people and when you failed instead of face what you'd done you fled.

Forgive me if I find no joke in this.

[snaketrap]

Such a line is much thinner than often observed, I would say.

[egodefence]

Right. No, I rather think there's a rather firm, quite broad line between friends and enemies. But I can't fault optimism, you know, silver lining and all that.

[snaketrap]

Pardon me? I can't hear you over the roust of faulty implications. Speak more clearly -- perhaps about Thor's berserk rage in Jotunheim. Then, maybe, we might return to the subject at hand.

Princess indeed.

[snaketrap]

How has that silver lining worked out for you so far? I am just a curious sort, see.

[fervidus]

My implications are not faulty. Thor's past mistakes do not excuse your own! And I recall clearly how you whispered encouragements in his ear before we stumbled in upon you two.

And now unless you are going to now deny that you tried to destroy Jotunheim do not pretend yourself innocent. Do you deny it?

[egodefence]

Splendidly.

[ No. ]

[snaketrap]

My whisper was no such thing. I agreed, I agreed that they'd try again. I was sympathizing that Odin not do what was necessary -- which by no means meant he aught barge in and start killing over a word.

No one is innocent in war. No one is innocent ever. Would you take back all the blood your steel has seen? That which carved you. That which made you warrior?

I'd not claim such. What care have you that I had? They're monsters, sitting there in rot, I'd all but done them a favor. Save our realm from war and have mercy on their dying breed.

[snaketrap]

[ Really? Look goes here. ]

[fervidus]

[She seethes for a moment, letting his words slide over her like oil. Her lips press tightly and for a moment she might have pitied him, but it does not show. She knows better.]


You are one of them.

[egodefence]

Well, we're all going to wind up in the same ship, aren't we. Literally. The most I can say is that it's a delay.

Your typist's indirectly to blame.

[snaketrap]

[ Wheels screech to a stop, yes they do. The emotions that spread over his face for those vital few moments when his guard just shatters are difficult to keep up with. Still, he regathers himself. Even straightens a little. ]

I am not.

[snaketrap]

Perhaps for some it is inconvenient. Others might be more liberal.

Is it for you?

[fervidus]

The All-Father told us.

[She treads careful. Like she has heard the rattle of the snake hidden within the brush.]

You are a Jotun.

[snaketrap]

[ He what. Loki clamps his jaw down and for a moment his eyes close, so overwhelmed. Yet still, it's all so subtle in show. How could he. How couldhe? After everything he told Loki, about wanting to protect him and all that nonsense. How could he now say this. How could he even dare.

Everything is just becoming so much more clear. Loki was right, of course, that he never belonged and he was never meant to and nor he wanted to and now that Jotunheim was half ripped to shred it was no Kingdom at all to rebuild. ]

You misheard.

[ He can't even think of a good lie. No, he's not loosing this damn argument. He needs to think of something ]

[egodefence]

[ Pause. ]

No. It's a terrible convenience. But I don't have to be pleased about it.

[snaketrap]

Have you know about it, Tranquility?


[ GOOD. TELL LOKI EVERYTHING ABOUT YOURSELF IN SUBTLE WAYS. ]

[fervidus]

[This is unlike him. These pitiful half hearted lies. Sif wants to rend him and hate him and drag him before Thor and Odin to pay for his crimes-- but for a moment her hand is stayed. Perhaps he would go quietly.

She sighs and looks down. A courtesy. Though she was not sure he deserved it.]

No.

[Sif breathes, not thinking to mention that it were not exactly common knowledge still.]

I heard him well.

[snaketrap]

[ How could you ever think it would be acceptable, Sif? What he was, what he is, what he's done, and everything in between. And for the count, he wouldn't, he'll sever this bond, these bonds, and destroy Asgard. Well deserved for a home that was never true, a home that betrayed. ]

Dare you to cast your eyes down from me, will you? You'll not show me pity, woman!

[fervidus]

[She looks up then, eyes flashing.]

Do not speak my sex as if it were a curse, Frost Giant!

[Two can play at that game and Sif's temper is far more prevalent than her pity.]