[ Thor was solace, as much as he didn't realize it.
perhaps it had always been that way, through quarrel and promise, they had always kept themselves afloat somehow. there had been long years where they hadn't spoken, and somehow always managed to find each other again. Ahad had said that love and hate were close, and you could never hate someone so fiercely that you hadn't loved once.
Loki's bitterness had once leaked out into much of what he was. now, there were things details he learned to appreciate. ]
Song, varieties of breakfast meats, hot showers and artificially scented soap, up-to-date technology, selfies, smutty romance novels ... trivialities, you could say, as fleeting as the lives of those mortals upon Midgard. It was far away from what I knew, the Realm Eternal and divine design.
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perhaps it had always been that way, through quarrel and promise, they had always kept themselves afloat somehow. there had been long years where they hadn't spoken, and somehow always managed to find each other again. Ahad had said that love and hate were close, and you could never hate someone so fiercely that you hadn't loved once.
Loki's bitterness had once leaked out into much of what he was. now, there were things details he learned to appreciate. ]
Song, varieties of breakfast meats, hot showers and artificially scented soap, up-to-date technology, selfies, smutty romance novels ... trivialities, you could say, as fleeting as the lives of those mortals upon Midgard. It was far away from what I knew, the Realm Eternal and divine design.
[ a pause. ]
But that's it—that's what makes anything count.