Loki

Intertwined Truths

Once the Warriors left the throne room, we left to focus on our path forward. There was a lot left to do before meeting with the King of Jotunheim.

I, personally, needed to confront the fact that I wouldn't be able to stay on Jotunheim forever. Dragons wouldn't do well there, anyway. Still it could make for a nice vacation home if not too much got exploded.

Freyja probably wanted to find a way to keep me from the frozen planet until the end of time. It wouldn't matter whatever she did, the real estate was too good.

Then came the King himself. The one person who out of the three of us had the most reason to return to Jotunheim. Loki procrastinated meeting his own biological father. I couldn't blame him for that.

Loki stayed standing ahead of us. I walked up to him.

"What do you plan on telling Thor?" I asked, trying to make it sound casual.

Loki hummed in thought. "You still insist I visit?"

"Yes." I'd told him my plan earlier. The top priority was keeping Thor on Earth for at least three days. That meant checking on him, seeing his progress in terms of being worthy. "You need to talk to him."

"Again, I fail to see why." Loki replied. "There is no chance he's learned anything."

"I think he'll surprise you." I reminded him. "So what do you plan on telling him?"

Loki twisted the spear in his hand. "I will tell him nothing, for there is nothing to say."

"So you've got nothing?" I asked him. Loki looked up at the spearhead. Freyja snorted behind me. "Okay. You completely forgot everything I told you."

"Be mindful, Morgan." Loki told me. "I am the Allfather, your king."

"I am a Queen. I bow to no king." I replied. The back and forth made me grin. "Allfather or otherwise."

"Tell me- why would I need to repeat your words?" Loki asked. "Moth...Frigga herself said she did not know if he would wake."

"And Frigga is a beacon of truth." Freyja reminded him. "Never lied to you before in her life."

Loki glared. Though I disagreed about her opinion on Frigga, she had a point there. "Share your wisdom, then, Queen Morgan."

I nodded my head in thanks. "You can't tell him Odin is dead. Asleep, yes. Dead, no."

"Because of your vision of the next two years?" Loki asked. I nodded. "Will it truly make that much difference?"

"Yes." I replied.

"How so?" Loki asked.

"You'll be caught in a lie." I warned. "We can't hold off the Warriors- not forever. They'll find a way of reaching Thor. If they tell him Odin still sleeps and you've told Thor different-"

"He would take their word, over my own." Loki reasoned.

Anyone else would've been upset at hearing their brother didn't trust them now. Or worse, maybe thinking that they never trusted you at all. Loki took it as he always did- keeping himself cool and contained. The kind of persona that wouldn't crack for anything.

Keeping out the Warriors 4 was a side-priority, along with keeping Heimdall from letting them go. If the Warriors 4 made it to Earth, they would give Thor all the wrong implications. With the plan we had going, if Thor came bumbling in like he did in the movie, everything would implode.

Everything hinged on Thor not doing that.

Loki wouldn't kill his biological father.

Thor wouldn't storm back into Asgard.