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{For Jason, it's more than the facial expression he carries now—it's the absence that comes before it, the times when Loki slips off into shadows and disappears, when he reappears unexpectedly, and when he seems to becoming someone else. That behavior has no place here, not among Ariadne's followers and not in a time when it doesn't benefit him. Perhaps more importantly, Jason recognizes it because he knows what it's like. It is a thing that is easy to recognize in another because he already underwent it himself. The difference is that Jason tends to target and focus on things, picking an object in a tunnel and running after it.

Loki, he's not surprised to find, doesn't do that.

Jason doesn't bother tailing Loki, instead sliding in front of him and quoting a play he remembers from long ago:]

Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Is there a murderer here? No-yes, I am.
Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why-
Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself!
Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? For any good
That I myself have done unto myself?
O, no! Alas, I rather hate myself
For hateful deeds committed by myself!
I am a villain; yet I lie, I am not.
Fool, of thyself speak well. Fool, do not flatter.