Oddly, the relaxing of her grip and that smile put the first real crack in the base of Loki’s confidence. He’d expected a ‘not yet’ at worst, but the not-exactly-relaxation and understanding smile felt like the beginning of a refusal somehow. The start of an I understand, but....

It twinged, but he didn’t let it grow. There would be space to react later, when it was certain either way. “Yes. Here, back home, in any other universe we find.”