Apparently serious
Sep. 11th, 2018 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
st_ratagemThe beach hadn't been in Loki's original plans for the day, to the extent that he planned days ahead in the Inn. They were all similar enough that there seemed little point. But after a message from Thor arrived while he was spending his few hours in the clinic (no more than a few, as he was still primarily trying to stuff information into his head and it turned out there actually was a limit to how effective that was on a daily basis) his not-plans had shifted.
The message had been simple, almost innocuous. Anyone else would have read it as a simple 'hey, we should talk!' More of Thor's sporadic clinging. But Loki had a longer baseline, and a few things had put him on edge.
It wasn't going to be a conversation that should have an audience. There was a chance it wouldn't actually be a conversation, per se - he'd have thought 'lecture' if he'd actually done anything worth lecturing about. (Surely putting a small child on a very low to the ground tightrope didn't qualify.)
But that was how he'd come to be seated on the beach (easy enough to reach within the border timeline if he shapeshifted to a wolf) with a neat coil of twine beside him, tying it into the right series of knots for a decent fishing net and waiting for Thor to turn up.
If nothing else, he'd know if he still remembered how to make nets properly.
The message had been simple, almost innocuous. Anyone else would have read it as a simple 'hey, we should talk!' More of Thor's sporadic clinging. But Loki had a longer baseline, and a few things had put him on edge.
It wasn't going to be a conversation that should have an audience. There was a chance it wouldn't actually be a conversation, per se - he'd have thought 'lecture' if he'd actually done anything worth lecturing about. (Surely putting a small child on a very low to the ground tightrope didn't qualify.)
But that was how he'd come to be seated on the beach (easy enough to reach within the border timeline if he shapeshifted to a wolf) with a neat coil of twine beside him, tying it into the right series of knots for a decent fishing net and waiting for Thor to turn up.
If nothing else, he'd know if he still remembered how to make nets properly.
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Date: 2018-09-14 03:49 am (UTC)Thor reaches out and presses a hand to the back of his brother's hair and toussles it in his typical somewhat messy, unintentionally aggressive way.
"I should get back," he says. "I'm sure Tony's waiting for me."
But first...
"Did you need anything else?"
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Date: 2018-09-14 04:01 am (UTC)"No. I'll be out here for a while yet, I'm sure." It was peaceful enough, and an empty enough view to be good for thinking. And he had a fair amount of thinking to do.
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Date: 2018-09-14 04:02 am (UTC)Thor didn't want to risk being disturbed during their conversation.