[ Loki's quick little story isn't even remotely true, except in all the ways that it really is.
At least Una and Spock know about Zero Point, have had experience with time-travel, understand the kind of intense energy fluctuations that can result from such an event, as well as the far-flung ripple of consequences that are impossible to predict in the moment.
To Chris's profound relief, he can see Una's hackles lowering. Slightly, but still. The hungry gleam to Spock's eyes bodes poorly for Chris's downtime, but he's less worried about Spock hounding Loki for information than he is about Una potentially trying to throw him in the brig for trespassing on their ship.
He jostles Loki's foot beneath the table, giving him a little smile that he hopes feels as reassuring as he means it to. ]
Nobody's getting eaten, either.
[ A god? is the obvious follow up question, skepticism heavy in each syllable, which Chris can understand but also finds a little bit ironic, considering it wasn't that long ago that they had to deal with M'hanit and the Shepherds and that entire preordained fiasco. Who's to say a god isn't real after all that? ]
I believe him. [ Chris has had the most experience with Loki's abilities, after all, and he can fully believe that a society might revere someone like him as a god, ageless and omnipotent. What a lonely existence for him, though, kept at such a remove from the people around him. Chris is almost glad he didn't fully understand, that he still doesn't really fully understand, everything about him. It makes him much more...human. ]
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At least Una and Spock know about Zero Point, have had experience with time-travel, understand the kind of intense energy fluctuations that can result from such an event, as well as the far-flung ripple of consequences that are impossible to predict in the moment.
To Chris's profound relief, he can see Una's hackles lowering. Slightly, but still. The hungry gleam to Spock's eyes bodes poorly for Chris's downtime, but he's less worried about Spock hounding Loki for information than he is about Una potentially trying to throw him in the brig for trespassing on their ship.
He jostles Loki's foot beneath the table, giving him a little smile that he hopes feels as reassuring as he means it to. ]
Nobody's getting eaten, either.
[ A god? is the obvious follow up question, skepticism heavy in each syllable, which Chris can understand but also finds a little bit ironic, considering it wasn't that long ago that they had to deal with M'hanit and the Shepherds and that entire preordained fiasco. Who's to say a god isn't real after all that? ]
I believe him. [ Chris has had the most experience with Loki's abilities, after all, and he can fully believe that a society might revere someone like him as a god, ageless and omnipotent. What a lonely existence for him, though, kept at such a remove from the people around him. Chris is almost glad he didn't fully understand, that he still doesn't really fully understand, everything about him. It makes him much more...human. ]