Thor hadn't ever seen him like this. He knew what frost giants looked like, and on some level, his mind had created what he thought Loki might look like in that form. Somehow, his mental image was divorced from reality, but still Thor wasn't able to pinpoint what was off.

"He told me he told you," he says. "He said that you hadn't taken it well."

By the time Thor found out, they had both thought Loki was dead. It wasn't as if he'd ever be able to confirm the details.

Thor looks down at the bottle and chuckles to himself. "We had a pretty crummy father sometimes."