[Loki shakes his head, still pressed against her shoulder.] We paid too high a price. Your son is a fool, lady.
[Because shaken as he is, in this moment he can't escape the truth and pretend that Thor is equally to blame in the end. He's been reminded of it far too forcefully and recently. He'd wasted so much time and energy on anger, instead of focusing on the one person who had truly deserved his wrath. And because of that, he had made himself into the orphan he'd claimed to be.
Later, he'll think of excuses. Later, he'll come up with a way for it to be just as much Thor's idiocy as his own anger. But there is a certain inescapable truth in agony.]
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[Because shaken as he is, in this moment he can't escape the truth and pretend that Thor is equally to blame in the end. He's been reminded of it far too forcefully and recently. He'd wasted so much time and energy on anger, instead of focusing on the one person who had truly deserved his wrath. And because of that, he had made himself into the orphan he'd claimed to be.
Later, he'll think of excuses. Later, he'll come up with a way for it to be just as much Thor's idiocy as his own anger. But there is a certain inescapable truth in agony.]