More silence, not even a Look. He'd finally, it seemed, managed to lean on one of Thor's buttons hard enough to break the whole mechanism. That was good, wasn't it? Thor finally understood how things were. And all it had taken was a little truth at the right time.

"Right!" Loki practiced sounding cheerful at times, but it sounded brittle now, even to his own ears. He stood up, carefully due to the slope of the roof and spared a grateful thought for the fact that he'd already put his books elsewhere. He had nothing to gather up. "I'm off. I don't think there'll be any more stargazing tonight."