You say that as though you would have been able to help. Or that Odin would have sent aid at all. [Thor's faith in the Allfather is staggering, but then again, it also hasn't been shaken to its foundations as Loki's has.]
...you also say that as though I wanted your help. [All right, Loki had been more than a little mad with power at the time. The Tesseract had affected him. And there had also been the threat of impossibly painful torture should he fail to conquer Earth. But that had only made him even more determined to succeed, even if only for the chance to turn around and strike back at his old masters.
He had chosen this. The thought that he hadn't, that he'd just been a pawn, that he'd never even had a choice about what happened, that they'd played and used him and he'd let them because he'd been lost was...unthinkable. Because he'd had a choice. If he'd truly wanted to stop this, he could have, would have.
This is a train of thought he likes even less than what happened the night he fell. So Loki deflects again.]
As for the Queen's attempts to reach out to me, it really wasn't a good time. It was a few seconds before they sent me to Earth, and traveling without the Bifrost is...rather unpleasant. I couldn't afford... [And Loki has the grace to hesitate before he finished, a little more quietly:] ...distractions.
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You say that as though you would have been able to help. Or that Odin would have sent aid at all. [Thor's faith in the Allfather is staggering, but then again, it also hasn't been shaken to its foundations as Loki's has.]
...you also say that as though I wanted your help. [All right, Loki had been more than a little mad with power at the time. The Tesseract had affected him. And there had also been the threat of impossibly painful torture should he fail to conquer Earth. But that had only made him even more determined to succeed, even if only for the chance to turn around and strike back at his old masters.
He had chosen this. The thought that he hadn't, that he'd just been a pawn, that he'd never even had a choice about what happened, that they'd played and used him and he'd let them because he'd been lost was...unthinkable. Because he'd had a choice. If he'd truly wanted to stop this, he could have, would have.
This is a train of thought he likes even less than what happened the night he fell. So Loki deflects again.]
As for the Queen's attempts to reach out to me, it really wasn't a good time. It was a few seconds before they sent me to Earth, and traveling without the Bifrost is...rather unpleasant. I couldn't afford... [And Loki has the grace to hesitate before he finished, a little more quietly:] ...distractions.