"My point." Tony lifted a hand. "You have your scope, we have ours. We've got our eyes on our corner, you've got your eyes on yours. If there's, ah, overlap we work together for a mutually beneficial outcome. Think less of a formal political alliance and simply a commitment to being neighborly."

Tony had a pretty good feeling that any talk of formalization would lose Loki immediately. Hell, it lost him most of the Avengers.