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[dothelokimotion]

What do you mean you don't know. How can you not know?

[ikols]

Aren't they worshipping you too?

[ ????????? ]

[dothelokimotion]

Yes, by graffitiing inane messages on my theatre in Central. Luckily this spell does not seem to have crossed over to Sunset Falls.

So I'll ask again. What did you do.

[ikols]

Why do you think I have anything to do with this?! They've been stealing my trash! You imagine I want that?

[dothelokimotion]

A spell designed to adore Loki? Yes, I can't imagine why you wouldn't want that.

[ikols]

I don't need adoration, I'm not the mayor of a silly little town desperate for a foothold of some meagre importance.

[dothelokimotion]

Of course. Desperation is beneath you. And you're clearly very important, now with followers stealing your garbage.

[ikols]

What exactly have I to be desperate about, o'wise one? [ SIGHING. ] I wasn't aware you had studied with the Norns.

[dothelokimotion]

What isn't a Loki desperate for?

[ they want it all. satisfaction is not in their nature. ]

I assume the spell went awry.

[ikols]

[ Ouch. ]

There was no spell, I didn't cast anything!

[dothelokimotion]

[ #doubt. because if he didn't cast it (and he absolutely would have, at some point), another loki would have. who else would bother? ]

Fine, then what do you think happened?

[ikols]

[ He's in no mood to share now, after being accused. ]

No idea.

[dothelokimotion]

How convenient.

[ikols]

They won't harm your theatre.

[dothelokimotion]

I won't have them making a mess either. Thankfully, I know how to clean up after myself.

Do you have your situation handled?

[ikols]

[ No. ]

Yes, it's fine. I'll take care of it.

[dothelokimotion]

[ hm.

quietly. ]

The truth. Do you?

[ikols]

First you ask if I've been summoning a spell, then you debate whether I know what I'm doing at all. Am I lying or foolish? To be both would certainly make this more dangerous, so which is it?

[dothelokimotion]

[ dryly. ]

I really wouldn't put it past any of us, considering our history. How you wish to respond to it is up to you.

[ikols]

I'm already responding! You aren't incentivising me through a snide guilt-trip, Loki, I'm already working on it!

[ Terribly enough, he's reminded of The Boy by the way his otherself is talking, and missing him makes things somehow harder. ]

[dothelokimotion]

It wasn't an attempt at being snide but a chance to be honest.

But fine. You have it all handled and you can do it all by yourself. No one needs to worry. I look forward to your success and will leave you to it.

[ikols]

Honest? You've become so closed-off since Thor left. He will always leave, you know, over and over, and you should be nicer to yourself even if you'd rather I had gone instead.

[dothelokimotion]

[ there's a sharp intake at thor's name. ]

And you're not? You think your nonchalance would fool me? Who is truly being closed off? Or, for that matter, who would ever notice that about you?

I don't play the games Odin did by wishing one or the other.

[ikols]

I'm not hiding in plain sight.

[dothelokimotion]

And I'm not playing hero. If you don't need help, fine. If you do, it is yours.

But I'm not keen to play games of distraction. As I said, it's up to you.