rebuildyourruins | Drift Fleet

You should come by the office.

What for?

You'll see when you get there.

Right.

[There's a fifty-fifty chance this ends in Thor getting tripped or stabbed, but those are reasonable odds.]

I'll be there soon.

[ the usual odds when dealing with loki. either way, he's standing outside the office impatiently. ]

You certainly took your time.

[Weird. Thor's eyebrows have already gone up a few degrees from the attitude Loki's throwing his way.]

You didn't make it sound urgent, Loki. It's just the office.

[A place Thor hasn't bothered to visit in some weeks now.]

That doesn't mean I like to wait.

[ but perhaps he's cross for other reasons. he purses his lips before opening the door, letting thor inside.

the office looks different. obviously, because thor had cleared it away but loki had taken repossession of it. there are two desks, placed at the edges of the office and on the wall, there is a large paper with various symbols scribbled onto it. ]

[He merely rolls his eyes and follows Loki into the room.

Having expected his side of the office to be pretty bare, walking into a reconfigured space is - unexpected. Thor stops, staring at the newly arranged space, then turns to look at Loki with faint confusion.]

You moved everything around?

[ he rubbed his palms together briefly before letting his hands drop. ]

I thought it might be better to use the space efficiently for your next goal.

[His next goal. Casting Loki another uncertain look, Thor moves into the office properly and over to the paper affixed to the wall.]

You don't mean Thanos?

[Of course there's nothing else Loki could mean. It's why it's less of a question than an admission of not being sure where Loki's going with this.

The stabbing would have been more clear.]

[ loki nods. ]

Thanos.

[ a pause. ]

And maybe using the Gauntlet to reverse its effects.

[He pauses in the middle of reaching out to touch the paper, mind working furiously. Thor remembers the Gauntlet. Up close and personal. His fingers curl back inwards into a fist, and he turns his head back towards Loki.]

It would take an incredible amount of power just to control the Gauntlet.

[ loki gives him a flat look. ]

You're a God.

One who does not intend on making the same mistakes again.

[It's a rebuke, though not sharp. Thor knows his own strength and his talents. But he also knows what it's like fighting Thanos head-on, with just one Stone and with all six. He can't afford to be cavalier about this.]

You didn't wield the Stones without their casings either, did you.

[ loki waves his hand, flippant. ]

Forming a casing isn't hard if you're not putting them all in one place. And I'm not much of a God, so it's a moot point.

[He sighs, relenting the point.]

No, I suppose it isn't. They kept them on Earth without issue for so long, after all.

[And Earth is pretty backwards.]

...what brought this on, Loki.

[ loki had half a mind to deflect but it would seem pretty transparent. he rubs his palms together. ]

I just prefer to put my time towards something constructive.

[Thor turns away from the paper finally, giving Loki a pondering look. Eventually he huffs. A half-smile curls his lips.]

I know the feeling.

[ loki doesn't say time is short, who knows how long I will be here.

who will remember me when I'm gone, my actions dust?

instead he says. ]

We still have work to do.

[Work that may lead nowhere. Work that may be snuffed out as worse than useless should Thor get another burst of memories. It was what had prompted Thor to come in here, a scant few days after remembering Thanos, to stare in ever-growing anger at the plans they had made. It had taken little thought to scrape all the papers off the table, rip all the maps off the walls, and hurl them into the forge.

It had been at some point while Thor was ripping pages out of a notebook that day that he had just stopped and begun weeping again. The notebook was still in here somewhere, half-emptied. He couldn't bring himself to finish the job.

Typical, really.]

Yeah. [He rubs at his cheek, looking around to re-orient himself in the present. Out of his cursed memories.] Uh, so this chart is...?

[ loki had been watching thor with a frown before he smooths his expression away. ]

Magical signatures. If you need to track down the stones. Your, ah, axe should be able to pinpoint them.

[It's par for the course. Thor's lapses are irregular but common enough.]

Oh, yes. You mentioned laying a spell upon it that could do such a thing.

[Folding his arms over his chest, Thor scowls at the chart.]

As long as it holds. This damned place already robbed Stormbreaker of its Bifrost power.

It should. I see no reason why it would not.

Only one way to find out, right?

[He flashes Loki a grin, not incandescent as it used to be but genuine regardless.]

You've seen it, I hope. The damage that the Marsiva still hasn't repaired.

[ he rolls his eyes. ]

I had noticed, yes.

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