on revelations and surprises;

[ex_flyting687]

It stings, doesn't it? Knowing that somewhere out there, in a different universe, you contend not just against Thor but a brother who is more kin to him than you will ever be. And it's insult to injury that Thor never knew until now, that he might choose this Odinson over you.

So it seems you're right, mortal woman - my feelings for the Bright One will always be constant and consistent throughout the realms.

What say you now?

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[ex_flyting687]

Well, I wouldn't say shining, but yes. I am.

[ohplease]

[she continues staring at him incredulously for a moment longer - was it out of supposed responsibility he'd sent the destroyer on them?

Out of responsibility he had...

She frowns.]

I would not agree.

[ex_flyting687]

Of course you don't agree - you acted against the orders of your king. And I was king, then. On this, you have no right to claim me in the wrong.

[ohplease]

My responsibility was to do what was right. How could you just abandon Thor - your brother- so easily?

[ex_flyting687]

I didn't. But in case it slipped all your minds, we were at the gates of war. You would have me bring him back, the instigator, the truce-breaker? I might as well have proclaimed the war to all of the Nine.

[ohplease]

Better to kill your friends, then?

[ex_flyting687]

You made your choice, and so you forced mine.

[Go ahead, argue this one. You'll still lose on the technicalities.]

[ohplease]

Do you care so little for us?

[the for me is implied but she's not giving that up to him.]

[ex_flyting687]

What would my answer matter to you?

[Why would anyone care for him?]

[ohplease]

Your answer matters to me because I assumed us to be friends. Does that mean so little, now?

[ex_flyting687]

You were always Thor's friend first, before you were ever mine.

[ohplease]

You cannot truly believe that.

[ex_flyting687]

Do I have reason to think otherwise?

[ohplease]

I see you reason that you should think it is thus.

[ex_flyting687]

Why? What redeeming trait could there even be to me? Me, Sif.

What else am I.

[ohplease]

[His question is so poignant it almost hurts, but she feels she has earned the right to be angry at him. The part of her that wishes to tell him all of the wonderful things about him, the things she had always admired, is conflicted with the part of her that is still angry. How he would have killed them, that he let them - her - mourn him when, apparently, he was still alive.]

When did you become so hard on yourself, Silvertongue?

[ex_flyting687]

You call me Silvertongue and yet you wonder.

[The hilarity - just hear out all his titles. All his so-called accomplishments, all worthy in their own right but hardly a glimmer against those exalted for Thor.

Even his name has always come second - Thor and Loki, as it has always been.]

[ohplease]

I call you Silvertongue because it is suggestive of the brilliance with which you usually speak.

[she sighs.]

I am not your enemy, nor do I wish to be. But you are not exactly making it easy.