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Loki parks in Doriath for another six years. She manages to make friends with some of the people who have things to do in accelerated perception. The Men who started as babies are full grown. The spell comes along and she refreshes everyone serving as a sorcery backup on a routine basis. She visits people between stints of work; during same she does things that she doesn't have to move around much to do. Writes a memoir. Screws around with decorative illusions. Sleeps, when absolutely necessary.
She's asleep when the quake hits. But not for very long.
purposeful_glory
This is as much fun for everyone as it is for Thor! The Quendi have come a long ways in the few decades since they invented swords.
purposeful_glory
Loki knows Thor's tells insofar as she has any. And osanwë has been declared Not Cheating.
The Elves are also getting pretty practiced at using it to coordinate. They can at least give Thor a terribly hard time.
Lúthien is looking so enraptured and terrified that Maitimo practically has to hold her in her seat.
purposeful_glory
Everything moves very fast. There's a million ways Loki could win if she were cheating. She's not. She coordinates Elves telepathically, blocks strikes, leaps balletic with the full measure of her grace around the field.
Thor's just plain better than her as long as Loki is not cheating. The Elves are enough to make it go on longer but they're not that strong or that practiced; they mostly serve to divide Thor's attention rather than to land strikes. Findekáno's tagged out, then Irissë, then Loki and Tyelcormo almost at the same time, and Thor is victorious.
Thor's just plain better than her as long as Loki is not cheating. The Elves are enough to make it go on longer but they're not that strong or that practiced; they mostly serve to divide Thor's attention rather than to land strikes. Findekáno's tagged out, then Irissë, then Loki and Tyelcormo almost at the same time, and Thor is victorious.
einridi
Thor beams at everyone. "You fought well for beginners!" she says to the Quendi combatants. "I haven't been that challenged in years! And I'm glad to see you haven't lost your touch, sister!"
"When Loki first met us," Irissë says, "the first thing she said was that if her sister landed she'd probably bound off to challenge Moringotto immediately. I would have liked to see that fight."
einridi
"As would I," says Thor. "But if my bout with Huan is anything to go by, I'd have lost to Moringotho and then I suppose Loki would've had to avenge me."
purposeful_glory
"And then I would have had to wait to have our reunion until I invented yet another spell and it would have been awful for my temper."
"Wait," Tyelcormo says, "what?" And to the Tesseract, "hey, apologies, I didn't realize you were a person and I have unusually little excuse for that. I am extremely curious why you picked us to throw Loki at, and less curious why you picked Loki to throw power at because she's clearly a very good candidate, but still."
purposeful_glory
The Tesseract stays where it is in Loki's stick.
"It is an inanimate object," Loki says, "in approximately the same way Huan is a dog. I think it would probably present itself differently if it wished to be included in conversations. Do you want me to ask it why Arda?"
"Huan doesn't talk but he appreciates not being treated like part of the scenery. If it cares to tell you why Arda, I am eager to know."
purposeful_glory
"Well, yes, dogs are more nonscenery than inanimate objects as a general rule," Loki says, "it's an analogy is all," and she pokes the Tesseract.
I am not the Time Stone and I was pretending to be a Bifrost malfunction, it says, I had to choose someplace Heimdall couldn't look which had a good place to put you at the right moment.
Loki relays this answer.
I am not the Time Stone and I was pretending to be a Bifrost malfunction, it says, I had to choose someplace Heimdall couldn't look which had a good place to put you at the right moment.
Loki relays this answer.
"I am not going to tell my father it's a good thing he burned the ships so everyone would be on the Helcaraxe at the right moment," Tyelcormo says.
"You are damn well not going to tell him that," Irissë says, her hand tightening on the practice sword.
"You are damn well not going to tell him that," Irissë says, her hand tightening on the practice sword.
purposeful_glory
Oh, there was plenty going on before that too, the Tesseract says. Imagine if you hadn't been a frost giant, I couldn't have reasonably dropped you on the Helcaraxë at all, would have had to be somewhere else.
"It says there was also plenty going on before that," Loki says, "and that it would not have been able to drop me on the Helcaraxë if I weren't," she checks for unauthorized eavesdroppers, "a frost giant, it would have had to put me someplace else."
"It says there was also plenty going on before that," Loki says, "and that it would not have been able to drop me on the Helcaraxë if I weren't," she checks for unauthorized eavesdroppers, "a frost giant, it would have had to put me someplace else."