“Nonstandard weaponry, then. I actually don’t mean any offense,” for once and a wonder, “but I find it puzzling that you seem to insist on letting your enemy define the battleground. You have a brain, why let physical force be the deciding factor?”

Loki waved vaguely at himself, for illustration. “Take me. My knives are, for the most part, the least dangerous things I can bring out. However much I enjoy them.”