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[complicatedliar]

Mmm. Not one I've met, then.

[He looks at her for a moment, head tilting.]

Of Midgard. Well, I admit I've not been keeping close watch over it for the last few centuries. Perhaps I've missed something interesting.

[sinuosity]

If you had heard more than the name or a few choice tales, I would be surprised.

[complicatedliar]

A very sly demon, then. My favorite sort.

Then tell me a tale so that I will know to whose daughter I speak.

[sinuosity]

​[ Nyssa smiles, sharply. ]

If you say please, I will consider.

[complicatedliar]

[Loki bares his teeth in something not quite friendly enough to be a smile.] If it pleases you to have the Demon known. If you think the tale of a mortal can at all impress a god.

[sinuosity]

[ He doesn't need to be friendly. Nyssa speaks the language of vicious things. ]

Whether you are a god or not is of no consequence. I have little need to impress. You ask for a story, son of Frigga, and that is what you will get.

[complicatedliar]

Hah. After stealing so many of my stories, you still demand yet more. Bold.

[sinuosity]

[ Simply, ]

I take what I feel is mine.

[complicatedliar]

[Oh, that's an attitude he likes. Though that doesn't mean he's going to just give in to it.] I tend to do the same.

Though one must hope you don't fall victim to the law of conservation of stories.

[sinuosity]

I have a hard time believing you didn't just invent that.

What law is this?

[complicatedliar]

Have you heard of the law of conservation of mass? Of energy?

[sinuosity]

Yes.

What has physics got to do with stories?

[complicatedliar]

Physics define everything, in its way, as point of fact.

Energy and matter are conserved. Information is conserved. And stories are a special sort of information. Which sounds quite funny, I am certain.

But this? [He glances around.] Is plainly a pocket realm of some sort, whose laws will not be the same as the ones you expect. It runs upon the logic of my dreams.

[sinuosity]

As has been made clear. You like books; you hoard knowledge. So: you seek power.

There is value in not being known, and thus underestimated. It is only effective once. Better to know a little, and have your enemies fear you.

[complicatedliar]

Very literal of you. [Though not really off base.]

Ah, the heady days before the infamy really kicks in. At any rate, the point is more--conservation of stories. I'd daresay in order to leave this dimension, you shall have to replace the stories you have taken with an equal weight of your own.

[sinuosity]

It is a fair bargain. Tell me, what stories please the son of Frigga? Might, or cunning?

[complicatedliar]

Cunning, of course. Trickery and traps are the most interesting, yes? One does get bored of the variations of and then I punched the troll very hard after a while.

A very short while.

[sinuosity]

Very well. A tale of a demon's cunning.

[ And she begins. ]