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[complicatedliar]

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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[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.]

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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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[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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[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.

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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]

[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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[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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[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.

[complicatedliar]

[Here's a pretty smile.]

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

[complicatedliar]

[Even more squinting.]

Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

[...wait, what? WHAT? He grabs Remus's wrist and pulls it close for a better look. Either he's not lying, or this is a really elaborate attempt to convince him of this nonsense.]

Impossible. I don't sleep that much.

[And surely if he'd just been in his office, asleep, Rogue would have woken him up even if no one else dared.]

[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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[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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[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.

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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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[complicatedliar]

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

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[complicatedliar]

[He can already guess what might be the source of that caginess. They had their fun in Luceti at the hands of the Malnosso, after all, the randomness of people appearing and disappearing and coming back completely different.]

Hello, dearest.

I ought to say you are a sight for sorely tried eyes, but I would swear I had but seen you yesterday.

[complicatedliar]

Oh, if only we were all so lucky. This is a most tiresome little universe. [He'd be happy to go back to villaining, really, except for the part where his girlfriend would dump him. Blame her.]

Mmm. Bottom of an event horizon is at least a better light show. If rougher on the skin.

[passingthrough]

[She isn't exactly bored yet, but she's done her exploring and investigating and she's ready to find the exit. Though some of the people have been pleasantly distracting. Like his girlfriend. Not that she realizes the connection yet.]

Well, good skin care is important.

Did you come back with a name? [Not that she's offered hers either.]

[complicatedliar]

This complexion doesn't just maintain itself. [Yes it does. Because he's a god.]

Loki of Asgard. And you are?

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[touchofrogue]

[And where had she heard that before?

This wasn't fair. It wasn't fair, and she might be irrationally angry, but she was angry all the same. Though of course it explained why he hadn't contacted her; he hadn't realized how long he was gone. She exhaled slowly and drawled:] This is gettin' ta be a real bad habit. [She gave him a small smile, tone warm.] You'd best come find me 'fore ya fall asleep again. Got a thing or two I'd like ta fill ya in on.

[passingthrough]

Oh. [Sounding very much like she recognizes the name now, but strangely not with the judgement that should probably follow.]

Kitty. Rogue's friend. Hi.

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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.

[theshabbiestofmen]

You have now.

[But Remus' smile was fading. That's bloody worrying, if it wasn't deliberate.]

You ought to go to medical. See one of the doctors on board.