“Hmmm.” Loki started to rub Thor’s hands with the towel, not to dry them but to push things around, make sure blood was flowing well instead of frozen sluggish. “Knowledge is power, I suppose. And I think Valkyrie is right: he preferred looking good and thinking well of himself to actual responsibility.” There had to have been reasons people so readily accepted grapes-and-bad-plays Odin, after all.