[ What do you last remember? Unfortunate question.
He focuses on the second and answers the first vaguely within that same package. There's something being angled at here, and there's no point distracting from it with the mess that was his last few hours in the Aerie or the visions that came after. ]
Not until near the end - and I didn't go inside. At the time it didn't seem worth the confrontation with Johann.
[ And there would have been a confrontation, had he seen him. ]
Not with my own eyes. But through plenty of others.
[ It's how he first learned of the betrayal and the role Grey had played, how he came to surrender his interest in defending their status quo. Past a certain point, with a certain number of people intent on interfering, and another number dead... ]
[ He levels his gaze on Loki, a little more unintended honesty than there might be in different company in the tightness around his mouth. But the tone is neutral, even light. As though they're talking about the plot of a fictional narrative and not very real lives. ]
[ none of the Cardinals had been very good people, nor had they really taken stride in what had happened in their own sphere. Loki remembered looking for a way to deconstruct the Aerie for decades before he came upon the opportunity. it had meant the overall destruction of the Aerie, but by that time, there was no saving it, anyway. ]
I tried to let the gods out.
[ if they're just dropping whatever happened and waiting for the obvious reaction then why not? he'll add his own two coins into the mix of it. while Loki had side-stepped the whole thing from the start, he may as well take control of the narrative now. ]
Then Thor killed me.
[ hence why Thor's not there—or absent in his own way. his Aerie run had certainly taken a different toll on him. ]
That really does explain a few things. It puts immediate if temporary paid to the blase expression on Stephen's face too, though he does them both the favor of trying to rein it in before surprise can look too much like concern. ]
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He focuses on the second and answers the first vaguely within that same package. There's something being angled at here, and there's no point distracting from it with the mess that was his last few hours in the Aerie or the visions that came after. ]
Not until near the end - and I didn't go inside. At the time it didn't seem worth the confrontation with Johann.
[ And there would have been a confrontation, had he seen him. ]
Why?
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he stops sucking on the straw for a moment. ]
I wanted to know if you got a last look at the gods, and Johann with the seventh.
[ kinda sorta. still. ]
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[ It's how he first learned of the betrayal and the role Grey had played, how he came to surrender his interest in defending their status quo. Past a certain point, with a certain number of people intent on interfering, and another number dead... ]
I got a good enough look.
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[ he asks with some level of curiosity—on the spectrum of judgement of wicked deeds, at least Loki was pretty low on the scale. ]
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Killing people.
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That's new.
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[ Here? Home? Yeah.
But in the Aerie, over the years... it had been very easy to sweep away misdeeds. Anyway. ]
I take it you didn't make it until the end.
[ Or at least didn't hang around in the right spots long enough to catch him in the act of losing whatever dregs of humanity he'd had left. ]
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I tried to let the gods out.
[ if they're just dropping whatever happened and waiting for the obvious reaction then why not? he'll add his own two coins into the mix of it. while Loki had side-stepped the whole thing from the start, he may as well take control of the narrative now. ]
Then Thor killed me.
[ hence why Thor's not there—or absent in his own way. his Aerie run had certainly taken a different toll on him. ]
So no, I didn't.
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That really does explain a few things. It puts immediate if temporary paid to the blase expression on Stephen's face too, though he does them both the favor of trying to rein it in before surprise can look too much like concern. ]
It didn't pull any punches, did it?
[ The Aerie. Whatever it had been. ]
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It.
[ he repeats curiously. ]
Do you think that's all?