Perhaps I was a teensy bit rude. It's more that they like to horde themselves away, sitting on whatever great work of dwarvish art they have down there in those mines, unwilling to share. Well, unless someone goes as far as to make nice with them. Very, very far—which Hiro seems to be on a steady path toward. They've much of the same disposition where I'm from. The Aesir, luckily, have a pact with them, mostly because we have things that they want.
I need you to contextualize things a little better. There are secret bits of information all over this world that we're working to find. I'm heading to Mair. There's that jackass at Redgate. Ariadne's headed up or is heading up. And more. [He pauses.]
Each of these pieces of information have been horded away, don't you think? Careful where you lay your biases, Loki. Unless you've been too busy lately to think about them. [There is a follow up here, but he isn't going for it.
Your point has been made and graciously accepted, unless you'd like to speak of it further. The rest of our little quest won't be able to be attended to until after you return from Mair, and, well ... it's been a while since we had a drink together.
Ah—if you don't think you can take it, I can find something of lesser alcohol content not brewed within the wood that lined the ships of my forefathers.
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[Yes, he is being sensitive about a stupid thing.]
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Ah, right—Hiro.
I figured you wanted to keep track of telling him what you wanted to tell him without a drop in more than was necessary.
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Odds are that it's the latter.]
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Er, well ... that was the point, I suppose.
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Did something happen?
[ Jason you just don't call people. ]
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No, of course not.
I take it he spoke with you, then.
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[ he puts his hand to his forehead and sounds mildly surprised. ]
Jason ... did you—did you give me a buzz to scold me?
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What's your beef with dwarves?
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Oh, nothing aside from general bad attitudes all around. They're the grumpy sort, secretive, cagey, that kind of thing.
We've had a few good times where I hail, they were even the ones to forge Thor's hammer. They've done a lot of that, actually.
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[He's genuinely curious.]
You used the word greedy. Me, I think that's a little too harsh for potential allies. But it clued me in.
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Each of these pieces of information have been horded away, don't you think? Careful where you lay your biases, Loki. Unless you've been too busy lately to think about them. [There is a follow up here, but he isn't going for it.
Not yet.]
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I'm sure he wouldn't notice if a little bit was missing. My bets would be on you getting wasted on a single sip.
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We used to often.
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I don't know that I'm up for drinking your weird Asgardian crap.
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I—Jason. What?
Sharing is caring? [ the inflection makes it sound like a question. ] Or did you just turn mead into a euphemism?
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An arrogant, mocking lilt accompanies these next words:]
C'mon, I recall you making yourself perfectly clear on the matter. I wouldn't want you to waste your resources on little ol' me.
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The euphemism or the mead?
[ why does he suddenly feel like he's supposed to feel like he cheated on Jason? ]
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But I don't want to accept your platitudes. I said that already.
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