voice;

[hammerhappy]

At first, I feared speaking publicly due to the nature of this device. I am not unfamiliar with Stark phones, even if I have rejected Stark's offers myself. He insisted time and again that the intemperate conditions of my lightning-based power would not destroy the phone, but I have proved that is incorrect here. I destroyed the first that way. And then others from the "click of a button," as they say.

But Loki offered me the Package of Walrus to protect it. It is now doing a suitable job.

I speak to you today to inform you that Loki, no matter how old or how young, is my concern. He is a citizen of Asgard, and while Asgard is not here, those responsibilities remain.

But I do not only wish to speak on heavy matters. I come to recommend that you do not try mead and ice cream in your bathing compartment in your mandated living spaces. It leaves the most foulest of aftertastes. And smells. Aye, I did not think I could ever turn down mead. I have learned otherwise.

Comments

action.

[redhourglass]

If he deceives you, it will give us less time to act.

action.

[hammerhappy]

Aye, but at this time, even without help, he reads like an open book. He wears his grudges on his sleeves, to borrow a Midgardian phrase.

action.

[redhourglass]

[ for the first time, she relaxes and sighs, running a hand through her hair. ]

I'll need to discuss this with Agent Barton.

action.

[hammerhappy]

You are free to, but do inform us if you intend to act anyway.

action.

[redhourglass]

[ there is a long, awkward moment. is he her watchdog now? probably just where it pertains to loki. ]

I will.

action.

[hammerhappy]

[Yes, only where it pertains to Loki. Thor is fairly obvious in that way.]

Thank you, Natasha.

[redhourglass]

I'm not sure you should be thanking me for this. I'm not doing you any favors.

[ another swig of her beer. ]

[hammerhappy]

Though we gods are limited, you will be unable to confront him with ease. Limited is only in terms of exciting the island.

[By which he means to say: if she acts, he'll be there to grab Loki and keep her from getting herself killed.]

[redhourglass]

[ perhaps not the best thing to say. she had her pride, after all. ]

You think I couldn't face him?

[hammerhappy]

If that is in question, then you are even younger than I believed.

[redhourglass]

Do you also know another version of me?

[hammerhappy]

Yes. You are very different where I come from.

[redhourglass]

Different how?

[hammerhappy]

[He considers his response.]

Carol may put it in better words. But you are rasher.

[redhourglass]

Is that so?

[ she'll show you ra-- oh. well. he might have a point there. it's a bit disorienting, everyone knowing your supposedly infamous identity. ]

[hammerhappy]

For one thing, she wouldn't be offended by such words.

[He looks at her pointedly.]

For another, we Avengers have fought many battles together, we've been to space and back, and we still have our ideals. We have died and come back, but we are still who we are for a reason. It sounds like you have just begun your journey together.

[redhourglass]

[ it's pointless to argue that she wasn't offended. she clearly had been; it wouldn't have gotten to her before but New York .. New York had her feeling frayed. stretched thin.

and now she was here. ]

.. We were just brought together recently. It's unclear that we'll fight together again.

[ carefully. ]

[hammerhappy]

I would prefer to think that it is not a question. Loki brought us together, too, and here we remain, time and time again.

[redhourglass]

That's not my call.

[hammerhappy]

Steve will keep you together.

[redhourglass]

He's not here, is he.

[ it's not a question. ]

[hammerhappy]

I was not referring to here.

[redhourglass]

[ she's being purposefully difficult and she knows it. because she doesn't want to think about rogers right now, because thinking about rogers inevitably leads to thinking about james and that's .. not. it's just not in so many ways. ]

What if I told you he went his own way along with the rest of us?

[hammerhappy]

What do you mean, "his own way"?

[Thor doesn't know what to make of that.]

[redhourglass]

After Loki was taken back to Asgard, we all split up. Rogers wasn't exactly urging us to stay together.