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[ikols]

[ A crown! A paper one, set down in front of the camera as Loki starts another. ]

Evening, Quarantine! Tonight in this broadcast is hereby declared Treats-For-Truths and origami gifts are now ready for sale! The price: tell me one of your secrets and I'll send a paper-something directly to you via magic. Please don't get too adventurous in your suggestions, I only have but ten fingers.

[ Other examples sit around the crown, such as a dinosaur, car, and (you're welcome, Thor) teeny tiny hammer. ]

Anyone who owns or is entitled to a crown will get one for free, in a colour of their choosing. Doodled details upon request.

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[ikols]

You have a stern demeanour, lady, it does you credit even across such devices as these. Few are as direct as you have been during our short words.

[ And he also watched three seasons of GOT because all of Hel got WiFi and now Asgardians are obsessed with the show, but it's rude to fourth-wall your heroes. ]

That Spider sounds like he knew a thing or two. I prefer the fox, myself, it always keeps its options open when it comes to fight-or-flight, whatever it knows.

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[ex_jelmazmo599]

That is a shame, then; mincing words gets nothing done. I leave such things to my Hand and the Spider. If you have a greater vision still for this world as I have, I would hear it.

You know now what I would do with the perimeter. We are far too enclosed here.

( She's not assuming his earlier words are mere flattery, because she considers that a truth regarding herself. )

Would that the Spider imparted such wisdom more readily. So might a dragon, in a more literal sense, perhaps. I am most partial to those. But I have grown fond of wolves of late.

I admit I know little of foxes.

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[ikols]

[ WOLVES, EH. ]

We have dragons in Asgard, or once did. Only one truly remains but Jormungandr is not to be seen or heard. I think, if he were not so violent and wild, he would fly over the Quarantine and find the borders of little consequence when his gaze saw so much further afield. But a fox knows the land and can only work from the dirt-up; I know there are monsters in the caves and burrows that a dragon could not see from above, and I know the pathways to avoid them.

A perimeter could only be expanded if the very land were purged and the walls moved simultaneously, too great a feat for our current border patrol. It would require magic ...

Fortunately, I run in sorcerous circles.

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[ex_jelmazmo599]

( THAT'S RIGHT. )

Is it a grand council you seek, or a partnership between us? You have a point, but let us illustrate it plainly.

( And then he does a little bit, and a smile graces her face as she nods her head. )

Better. I admit to being not overly fond of magic; it's stolen much from me. But if you would put it to such practical use, I could grow accustomed to it.

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[ikols]

If I speak with anyone I feel may support such ambition, may I namedrop you into the conversation so they know with whom to speak?

[ Let him be Tyrion, he could totally be Tyrionnn. ]

I swear my magic will never cause you harm.

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[ex_jelmazmo599]

You may, including with my intended. I will mention this proposal to him; he and I conceal no truths from one-another.

( That's not the same as keeping secrets; she's well-aware that he's as like to have his own as she certainly does.

And Loki definitely puts Tyrion to mind. )

It is a beginning. If you do no harm to either Jon or I, I will do none unto you. You have my word.

( Does she trust him? Not completely. But the reverse is also probably true, in her mind. )

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[ikols]

[ #bringbackdrogo2017 Clearly, in between an existential crisis and ripping open the Tenth Realm, he missed a few seasons. Shouldn't Jon be at the Wall? Isn't there a ginger girlfriend? Loki's breakdowns are so inconvenient when it comes to staying up to date on TV shows. ]

Ditto. I have family here from mirror-realms, a brother and a self-same twin, and a sister from my own; Angela is the heir and easily spotted for she towers over all with red hair, then Thor with one eye, and next myself. Lastly, my ward, the witchboy William Kaplan.

Wrongdoing against my family, I am sure you can appreciate, is unforgivable.

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[ex_jelmazmo599]

( As any book fan might assert: the parallels were always there. )

I have lost all the family I had and more besides; those remaining are mostly friends and part of my circle. But not family. Jon is my king, my love and my equal. In this place, he is all I have.

So, yes: I understand. Too well, perhaps. My dragons are not here — but I will defend him just as fiercely as would they.

( A small smile. ) I've not yet met most of your family. But Thor has been kind to me.