four; video (backdated a few days)

[glaived]

[ The video takes a moment to adjust to what is clearly a beautiful night sky - if anyone thought the milky way was pretty just multiply it by ten and that's the general idea of what it is. There's the clamor of feasting and fighting in the background, but it's distant.

Instead there's Sif, lit by firelight in full armor - her own winged helm and all. ]

Friends of Steven Rogers - Thor [ Pan down, and there's Thor with his own helmed head in her lap, sleeping, before panning back up again. ] and I have waited for him at Valhalla for some time. And it is with mixed emotions that I say we have not yet seen him.

So there is hope yet that somehow, he still lives.

[ There's an oddly warm smile, and then the camera pans up to the stars again before cutting out. ]

Comments

[glaived]

[ a very long pause, and it's clear she's getting up and wandering away from the campfire and Thor because fuck that. ]

No. [ which normally she would never admit to, but seeing one's boyfriend suddenly back from the dead does a number on a person. ] It was a foolish thing to do.

But if you are going to consider yourself completely blameless in this matter--

[trickstering]

Then you'll be angry with me? Funny, it sounds as if I've nothing to lose.

[glaived]

You are incredibly frustrating, Loki. That much, at least, has not changed.

[trickstering]

I am sorry that my aim is not to be friendly.

[glaived]

Then what is it? Why bother showing yourself now?

[trickstering]

Perhaps it was merely to upset you.

[glaived]

Job well done. Is there anything else you wanted?

[trickstering]

If there was, I would not make the mistake of asking it of you.

[glaived]

Yes, of course. How could I think otherwise?

[trickstering]

Clinging, perhaps, to that which no longer exists.

[glaived]

And I'd call you a liar.

[ on both parts. ]

[trickstering]

You always do.

[glaived]

I never want to.

[trickstering]

You could have convinced me otherwise.

[glaived]

I know. [ a pause ] Though you will not believe me, I mourned you.

[ not important, Sif. ]

Why hide from us?

[trickstering]

Because I was allegedly dead. You didn't need to know otherwise.

[glaived]

Didn't need to know? Loki-- we care about you. How could you possibly think we shouldn't have known you were alive?

[trickstering]

You don't care about me.

[glaived]

Don't be stupid, Loki, of course I do.

[trickstering]

You must have spent too much time with me - to have become a practiced liar, yourself.

[glaived]

Have you known me to lie well? Do not think you can simply dismiss whatever I feel because you no longer care for it.

[trickstering]

You understand nothing.

[glaived]

You've made that abundantly clear.

[trickstering]

It matters not, now.

[glaived]

Now you are out of reach to us all.

[ come home, Loki. ]