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[ikols]

[ A week after getting turned into crispy bacon, once he has healed up enough to feel like himself again, wherever Stephen is a small, floating brown package tied with string will appear in front of him with some (signature) green magical fizzles. Attached is a scrawly notetag that reads: ]

The cloak was once shredded into pieces in my world, I fixed it. This is my homemade Asgardian thread, it can mend the weave should yours ever experience a similar misfortune.

[ There is a spool of glittering golden sewing thread inside the tiny packet, just a couple of metres. An unspoken thank you for Stephen's help. ]

text.

[rehandle]

[ It's a few hours after he's opened the package, spent some time inspecting it with the cloak hovering watchfully over his shoulder and stowed it somewhere safe that he sends through a message. Long enough that it could be unrelated if the fact that he's messaging at all weren't a dead giveaway. ]

I take it things are going well with Peter Parker.

[ A stranger-shaped Peter Parker peering out from the fridge had been a particularly surreal note in what hadn't exactly been an altogether ordinary day. ]

[ikols]

[ WHAT A WEIRDLY SPECIFIC QUESTION HOURS LATER. He can't imagine where that came from. ]

yyyyes
should they not be?

[rehandle]

[ The polite dance of ever decreasing circles around the words Thank You must take whatever form it can find. ]

No, good for you. That was just an interesting way to make his acquaintance.

[ Things are going well enough that Stephen wasn't spared the indignity of being called Gandalf by another universe's Peter Parker while a well-done Loki sizzled on the couch, and some might say that's beautiful. ]

[ikols]

[ Blinking at his phone as he chews his lip in thought, he decides to take a chance and be amiable. The subject of Peter is not one he is eager to have met with ridicule. ]

he likes magic, you know
so much
he has none in his dimension
he keeps trying to figure out how i cast spells

[rehandle]

I remember that feeling

Only thing that surpassed it was learning how to do it myself.
Think he'd be a good student?

[ Teach your beau some magic, Loki. ]

[ikols]

he would if he had books for it
nothing i CAN explain comes out sounding logical enough, and he IS a scientist
he loves that the fantastical exists more than he seeks to control it, which is probably why we get along so well

[rehandle]

[ It's - nice, that the pair of them are making the best of their time here, finding connection. The risk inherent in attachment in a universe whose mechanics they've yet to decipher would be more than enough to put Stephen off, but it's not his parade. It does add a little flavour to Loki's distress under the sway of the other god though, as though that situation hadn't been bad enough.

Maybe better to switch the subject onto different tracks. ]

Have you met the other one yet?

[ikols]

[ He'll just take Peter home with them, shh. ]

the CHILD? yes
he is so very young, i feel ancient by comparison

[rehandle]

You're ancient by any comparison
But yeah, that one. That's the Peter from my universe if that wasn't already evident

[ikols]

that's why you acted weird when i mentioned i was heading out with a spider
you thought i meant the INFANT
3:/
wow, that sure was a thought you had, wasn't it

[rehandle]

For a brief and horrible moment, unfortunately yes

[ikols]

maybe you should go on a date with someone
jean grey, x-men member

[rehandle]

Thanks for the suggestion.

[ No thanks for the suggestion. ]

[ikols]

is that parker the only person from your world?

[rehandle]

As far as I know

Jean mentioned there are around half a dozen of you. Not a bad turnout.

[ikols]

[ For a moment he thinks Stephen means you specifically and almost has a conniption assuming a bunch of Lokis are running around, but no (far more crimes would have been made public by now if that were the case). ]

616-ers? Yes, but mostly x-men, which is why they likely all toddled straight to jean for guidance
she won't admit it but is essentially queen of the mutants

if any of the core avengers were here i'm sure we would have heard them barfing their brave advice on the network by now

[rehandle]

X-men after the professor?

Yeah, I don't think we're at risk of any Avengers flying under the radar.

I wonder if we'll be as popular the next time the universe decides it's time to boost the population.

[ They've been lucky so far with the intake, but if the numbers from their multiverse do signify a trend and the selection process is either more random than that sizeable representation might signify or less specifically targeted toward people who aren't intentionally going to do harm...

There's not enough to go on yet, but they'll need to be wary. ]

[ikols]

professor x, aye
telepath, old fogey
nice in a threatening grandpa way but maybe that's just me
mutants and avengers don't like each other but no one particularly likes asgardians either

i have the good(?) fortune to be a reality warper so i recall all the times (mostly) our universe has ended or come close to it
it's a couple in the last year, at least
many people forget but as my purview is stories and lies, i don't
i mean to say, i wouldn't be surprised if a hoard of people from 616 fell out of the sky next time and most of them gamely shook it off

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Your universe sounds exhausting.

[ Between multiple rival hero sects and all the times it's ended... A couple in the last year? Eesh. ]

No offense.

[ikols]

none taken, i didn't create it
have you ever heard of malekith?

[portolan]

I hear you’re the man to speak to about magical inquiries and conundrums.

[rehandle]

Of the Dark Elves? Yeah. He made a pass at Earth a decade or so ago.

[rehandle]

[ Nice to hear he's got a reputation even here, though he figures the only person actually spreading that around is Peter. ]

I can be. What's your inquiry or conundrum?

[portolan]

[ Balthier actually got his name from David. ]

Magic that was previously both elemental and physical appears to now only be visual, and a healing spell resulted in transference of a malady instead of healing.

There may also be memory issues but I'm less clear if those are linked.