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[complicatedliar]

Who: Loki
Broadcast: Everyone
Action: Paisley
When: Right now!

[Action]

[Guess who just shows up to breakfast one... afternoon? Loki emerges from his office, looking for all the world like a man who has just woken up from an extended nap, barely open eyes, trying to stretch his back and shoulders, the whole nine. He wanders into the kitchen, fumbles around until he makes himself something hot and dark enough that he can pretend it's coffee, and stares suspiciously into the cup before drinking.

Ugh, his mouth tastes like someone glued one of Thor's feet to it. Ugh. What possessed him to sleep like this...

(Guess who has no idea he's been missing for weeks~)]

[A bit later: Broadcast]

[Awake now, and... well, he looks amused. Which is to say as if he's planning on flaying someone alive.]

Why yes, I have returned. Hide all of the party favors, lock up your sons and daughters, cancel the pedestrian fireworks displays.

A funny thing, missing time. You'd never know it was gone until someone tells you. Has anyone else fallen victim to such thievery?

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[passingthrough]

Can't say I have, but I've only been here two weeks. Fingers crossed. [Not that she actually wants it to happen. She's familiar with it though. One of her new crewmates said the same thing happened to her and it happened often enough in the prison that was her home between her world and here.]

Are you supposed to be dangerous? [He did offer a warning, probably just in jest.]

[complicatedliar]

[Here's a pretty smile.]

Of course not. I'm entirely innocuous. Merely a little joke on my part.

[passingthrough]

That's a shame. Here I thought things just got interesting. [Not that she'd actually invite trouble. Right? Probably? What's the hero type supposed to do without it though?]

Welcome back I guess. Seems like there are worse places to be.

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[theshabbiestofmen]

Hallo.

[He offers him a slight smile-- tinged with worry, but not very much. He'd seemed all right, those few times Remus had crept in, and who's to say sleeping so long isn't normal for creatures like him?]

You've missed quite a bit of excitement.

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[complicatedliar]

[Bleery stare. Eyebrows arc up slightly.

Squint.]

How much fun have you gotten up to in a few hours?

[theshabbiestofmen]

Not me. Just in general. And it hasn't been a few hours, Loki.

[He holds up his left wrist, where he keeps the lengths and lengths of thread he ties. There's far more knots there than Loki remembers-- the work of weeks, really.]

You've been asleep since we left the planet.

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[nulliverse]

That's quite a... re-introduction. I'll have to take notes, mine was positively dull in comparison.

So yes, as you probably gathered, I did. Nearly a month when I first got here. I assumed it was punishment for flying into a complete strop the moment I arrived and throwing accusations left and right - perhaps now I can test that theory, did you do anything similar?

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[complicatedliar]

Most people are comparatively dull. [Why yes, he is he most interesting person in the fleet, in his opinion. Of course.]

Nay. I'd been here for some months and hadn't done anything at all unreasonable.

I am, mind, a very reasonable man in all things. [The sad thing is he totally believes himself.]

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[nulliverse]

To say nothing of your modesty. You hardly need to, when it's so evident in everything you say.

[Dry as unbuttered toast, but there's a spark in her dark eyes. At the very least, she finds him entertaining; interesting is closer to the truth, but she rarely lets that much show so early.]

It's a mystery, then, isn't it? Perhaps space has got some sort of sleeping sickness none of us have ever heard of - but then, viruses tend to tear through enclosed spaces like these like wildfire, not strike the odd person. I'm completely at a loss.

[Video]

[therewerefifty]

[Well. That's a familiar voice. Not a welcome one, either, given their previous interactions in Adstringendum. He may not even know she's here, and that might be simpler. Then again, knowing how these places seem to work, he may not remember Makie-- or Adstring-- at all.

Even better. But she's not one to hide from the possibility; have an exceedingly polite Japanese woman, Loki.]

Time was stolen from you in this place, sir? I'm afraid I don't quite understand.

[Video]

[complicatedliar]

[People being polite to him makes him feel like he's being given some of his due respect. Humans are normally so bad at that.]

I have apparently been... absent. For several weeks. I have no memory of this time having passed.

[Video]

[therewerefifty]

[Makie was raised in a very strict time. But also, it's just good sense to be polite to a god, self-proclaimed or otherwise. She never worked that part out.

...losing time when put like that is more alarming.]

It sounds like our hosts may have had business with you. You don't feel different at all? Nothing out of place?

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[precedented]

[ That was not Loki, at least not the Loki he knew. Not the boy-god of chaos and mischief who threw off the shackles of his story to make a new one.

Who was tricked into destroying himself.

Still . . . if he was here, Leto knew what Loki would tell him. ]

And such a discernible return it was! As if you were a memorable part of life itself.

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[complicatedliar]

[Sardonic drawl:] Of course, I'm the most memorable person here. I owe life nothing less.

I am so happy to have brightened your pedestrian day.

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[precedented]

I expect nothing less from a dethroned king. After all, some of us managed to hold onto our godhood and our throne.

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[pneumo]

I have~ But I wouldn't call it thievery. Or at least, I don't think my time was stolen. It was completely natural.

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[complicatedliar]

Oh? Do explain. [Completely natural, really. Curious.]

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[touchofrogue]

[Later, around the time of day Rogue usually checks the broadcasts...

He's back.]

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[touchofrogue]

[And he hadn't--

She bit the inside of her cheek. It was better not to assume. They could have messed with his head like the Malnosso. It might not even be her Loki she was seeing. So her answer is casual:] I reckon ya might say that.

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[shockput]

Was it only time, they took?

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[complicatedliar]

[Oh well this is certainly... something. Good? Bad? He and Thor had reconciled as much as two such different brothers could in Luceti, but is this the Thor he knew there? Or is he in for a tedious round of Loki, you are a naughty man and I'm taking you somewhere in shackles?]

Brother. [Such a pleasant tone.]

It had been so long since last I laid eyes upon you. When did you arrive?

[Give him a hint here, bro.]

/rolls in here late - broadcast

[universal_charm]

_{[ Missing time, huh? It sounded oddly familiar to what a meat-loving young man had told him, and he had to wonder... ]}

I think the real crime here would be cancelling the fireworks display.

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[complicatedliar]

[Another familiar face, though he knows better than to make that assumption. A little cautious probing, first.]

If you look out your nearest porthole, Jim, you'll find I haven't forgotten at all.

action; IM LATE TOO SORRY

[huaaaaagh]

[Since it's, you know, the afternoon, Kirito's in the kitchen making some lunch. Loki is definitely the last person he'd expecting to walk in. Just about drops his frying pan.]

Whoa, you're back?

action; IM LATE TOO SORRY

[complicatedliar]

Yes, I got bored with picking posies. [Grump. Still doesn't realize.] I hadn't gone anywhere.