[Loki, Thor, Valkyrie] Asgardians play rough

[st_ratagem]

The Inn, while not technically all that small, seemed to get emptier and smaller with time. That was, in Loki’s experience, one of the features of imprisonment in general. The business of every day was simply filling the day, finding what novelty one could in order to vary the texture of time.

Today, for some reason, he’d opted to appear in the Inn’s fitness room slash sparring arena to watch Thor and the Valkyrie spar. He had no intention of challenging the winner, of course; Thor would demolish him and he generally preferred less public locations for anything involving Valkyrie and violence in his direction. But it would at least be interesting to watch the two have fun or bleed off aggression, and possibly play spoiler of sorts - a few little tricks to tip the scales one way or the other in case one of them got complacent.

Sniping from the sidelines was, after all, entirely his style.

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[st_ormbreaker]

Close quarters didn't exactly work well for Thor's usual lightning-heavy fighting style -- something that became all too obvious to him during the attack on The Statesman. While most combat favored the outdoors, there were moments where he couldn't rely on big open spaces to fight. True, he managed to hold his own against the Hulk on the helicarrier (well, mostly), but that had been with Mjolnir's assistance. He couldn't always count on himself to have a weapon in battle and he couldn't count on being able to use his powers, either.

"You know, Midgardians have a phrase they use when they're trying to antagonize one another into combat," Thor informs, rolling his neck. "It's 'Come at me, bro.'"

Thor cracks his knuckles, now readied for combat. "Come at me whenever you're ready."