“A little.” The urge wouldn’t stay down, and this was as good an opening as any. Anything unwanted could be answered with violence, and equilibrium restored. It had been a while since his last terrible decision anyway.

Loki pushed himself up just enough to press his mouth to Valkyrie’s in a kiss, neither tentative nor especially chaste. If he was going to risk serious bodily harm to kiss a woman, he intended to make it count.