"I can snowball into significant amounts of direct damage, but I prefer not to be on the front lines."

"With any luck we'll have only a few direct opponents. But you might be better positioned keeping guards and the King and such from interfering. I'm hoping to get this resolved before backup can arrive, but - there might be distractions to the main fight."

"I can do that."

"I might try to stay out of the main melee, and see if I can't build up a ritual as backup."

"Thanks."

"It is our pleasure."

"If no one has objections I might read in Thor and Steve - opinions on whether I bring up you guys' powers, or just that we have backup?"

"The latter, I think. Better to compartmentalize where we can."

She nods. "I'll probably just use illusions to let them know what you two look like, bring them separately to the field - I don't know how much is being monitored but we might want to avoid too many high profile people teleporting here."

"A good idea."

"Anything else I should relay?"

"Not from me, I think."

"I'm good."

Loki nods and teleports off.

"Not quite the vacation we were hoping for," she comments to Mora.

"I might have to tweak my targeting parameters next time."

"Keep the surf and sun but turn down the mindreading and artificial reality."

"Might just filter for somewhere with no people. At first, at least."

"That might do it. Or someone would fall out of the sky on top of us."

She laughs. "That's seeming increasingly likely, isn't it?"

"Rather. The mysterious forces don't like calm."

"Maybe next time we should talk the others into causing some chaos while we slip away somewhere else."

Heh. "Worth a try."

"Seems like something the Hisames would be up for. Maybe Naraka would find it cathartic."

"As long as we point her well away from anything we'd have to clean up."