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[ikols]

[ The recording shows Loki in a tall-backed chair, a faint green glow off-screen drawing his gaze now and then in the shadowy surroundings. Chinning a hand, he appears uncharacteristically sober, the way only a handful of people have witnessed, and his lips have lost their usual mischievous quirk.

Sighing as though this is a chore, he begins. His voice remains carefully level. ]

Tony Stark of Earth-616 has returned through the portal. I had his movements tracked via rune-magic in case he fell into a different dimension or was kidnapped into Hel-knows-where, that sort of thing tends to happen back home more often than not. But it seems, from what I can confirm from tracing his last steps, that they led him ... away from us.

[ His gaze falls to the mysterious glow, watching it from under hooded lashes instead of paying viewers any mind. ]

If anyone wants to claim his workshop in the perimeter guard headquarters, it's full of his last projects. Unfinished. I suggest our other-verse Starks take precedence over commandeering his mess to make use of it or throw it away.

[ Turning the phone around, the illumination reveals itself to be a ghostly green Tony going about his work on the other side of the desk, a conjured echo as the reality-bending god looks on with everyone else. Why Loki summoned it is unexplained, but he raises two fingers to brush aside the phantom with a gesture and it dissolves in an unearthly silent breeze. The workshop's lights remain off; Loki doesn't need them to see and he would rather hide his face. ]

I doubt he would mind, either way.

Comments

[inebriety]

It's not like he's dead.

[Tony's view on loss is extremely skewed.]

[ikols]

[ Look at this total lack of a reply. ]

[inebriety]

What?

[ikols]

I'm the dead one.

[ ... Sort of. Mostly. All the parts of his mind that matter were obliterated except the memory of Thor and Verity, his personality can't ever come back from an ego-death. ]

He's gone back home to return to his coma.

[inebriety]

[The correct response here is to be sympathetic, but this makes him wistful. He wanted that once and now he's resigned to that being an impossibility. It no longer mattered what he wanted when he couldn't afford to let his teammates down.]

You should talk to someone then. Not me, not when I want what you have.

[ikols]

Victor said Anthony is dead but I don't believe him. It sounded more honest when he spoke about the coma.

What are you talking about? I don't have anything.

[inebriety]

I'm only answering that if you think deflecting is going to help. Because this is you asking for help disguised as a helpful heads up to everyone.

[ikols]

What should I have done, kept silent about him leaving? I knew the second he walked through the portal. I'm not deflecting. This IS to be helpful and inform people he knew.

[inebriety]

It can be both. However when you say walk are you being literal?

[ikols]

Unless he rolled through on a fashionable tricycle, yes.

[inebriety]

I'm merely trying to determine how willingly he left. If he left of his own free will without saying goodbye then I'll have to revise my opinion on him.

[ikols]

If it's any consolation, I'm sure there are others here who were closer to him that got some goodbyes.

[inebriety]

He's too desperate for affection to have left anybody out.

[ikols]

The only part of him greater than his mind was his heart.