Loki stared at the staff instead of answering for a few more seconds. It had already been a bleak, unfriendly sort of artifact, now it was more so even if he found it oddly pretty. Fitting enough, and when everything was fully set and dried he’d have to test it.

After a longer pause then he exactly intended, he closed his hand and pulled it out of the bowl, “As if it’s such a privilege. I’ll manage. You have places you’d rather be.”