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

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[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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Yeah, if I was at home, nobody would even notice. Where I was at the time, though... not so much. Most people preferred the flashy outfits. I guess they thought it made them look cool.

I see. So you dressed as if at home in a foreign country. [Whoops.]

That's pretty much it, yeah.

[Replace "country" with "world" and he'd be spot on, really.]

I'm not the only one who did it, but it was one more thing that didn't win me much in the way of friends there.

What put you in such circumstances?

What, the "foreign country"? Kind of a long story.

[Counsellor or not, he doesn't talk about SAO. Not with people he barely knows, anyway.]

Short version is I went for a visit and took a while to get home.

A very short version.

[He rests his chin in his hand.]

Don't wish to talk about it, hm?

Not especially.

[Little point in mincing words about it when he's already so obvious.]

I said it was a long story, not a good one.

Ah, but it is my job to listen, is it not?

[Yep, totally altruistically too. Yep yep yep. Sure.]

Sure, but you just woke up. It'd be terrible to put you to work right away.

[He doesn't buy this offer in the slightest, good sir.]

I am highly dedicated to my job.

Though I suppose in the kitchen isn't an appropriate place.

Probably not.

Weren't you going to check out the station?

[Did he mention he didn't want to talk about it?]

Will I miss something interesting if I don't hurry? [Really, Kirito, could you be more obvious?]

You never know.

[He knows he's obvious- just as obvious as Loki's prodding, really. He'd indulged in the therapy session the first time, just to see how it held up. Hell, it'd been halfway fun.

This? Isn't something he's willing to joke about. Not when he's pretty sure it'll be used against him in the future somehow.]

...I don't dislike you or anything. You're in my guild, so we're comrades. Even so, I can't help questioning your sincerity.

[Interesting terminology, there. Guild. Comrades. Hm.]

That is a very hurtful statement to make. [Chin still in hand, faintly amused.] I am always sincere in my purpose.

The purpose that you haven't been all that specific about?

[There's no word yet on what he'll be doing with what he hears.]

Purpose isn't a... one-size-fits-all sort of thing. One has more than one, depending upon the situation.

I hope you realize that just makes it worse.

[He doesn't even believe Loki's main purpose is to help, why would multiple be any different.]

Does it? I'd find the acknowledgement of situational change rather comforting. It shows an awareness of the inconsistencies of life.

I... guess.

[He's not even sure if they're talking about the same thing anymore.]

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