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[So we've been stuck on the poison moon for a couple months now, so a lot of people probably want to get away from that.

Unfortunately, the only place you really can get away from it besides your own ship is the Iskaulit. So, here's a June Iskaulit mingle!]

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[He's not trying to pick a fight. Yet.]

[Amused:] There are far worse sorts of monster to be.

[if you successfully pick a fight with Hank, you'll accomplish what few have managed]

I'm not a monster. [it's still with the dry tone] None of us are.

As you say.

[Rogue tells Loki he's not a monster all the time. He still doesn't really believe her.]

Though I have heard your fellow humans are rarely so kind?

[he shrugs a shoulder, crossing his arms. What an uncomfortable topic to discuss]

I'm different and they don't understand it. [a shrug] The ones I've met here are kind.

[Welcome to talking to someone who revels in making other people uncomfortable.]

A common disease of the realms. Lovely here, to not have others breathing down one's neck.

I wouldn't call it a disease, but - mm. It's nice not having people stare at me, it's true.

What else might you call it but a disease of the mind? An infectious idea. [Doesn't really care. But trying to get a read on Hank.]

[wryly] I'll let you know when I decide on a word for it. My world just learned about what we are as a whole.

[He is very glad that Asgard as a whole never knew what he was. That would have been even more untenable.]

And how has that gone for you?

[a shrug. It had only been a month, and then they were brought here]

I haven't been watching to find out. I've been busy.

[He laughs softly.]

Then it can't have been too bad thus far, or you wouldn't have been able to ignore it.

[he huffs a little]

Or I'm tired of seeing my face on the television. There's more important things to worry about, aside from what the world thinks of me like this.

If a bit of television is the worst you get, you shall be lucky indeed.

I'll be incredibly thankful if that's all it is.

[who knows who else there thinks along the same lines as Bolivar Trask]

You did not strike me as the sort particularly enamored with war. So why this?[The obstacle course indicated with a tilt of the head.]

I'm not. [he says with a nod, confirming. He hates fighting. He hates war even more. But he shrugs and with a wry tone:] But I like to be prepared, just in case. So - [he gestures to the course]

Do you prepare your mind as well as your body?

I'm . . . not sure what you mean.

You may train all you like, until you've built battle into your muscles. But if your mind gets in the way of it, you shall still hesitate.

Hesitation is generally a bad idea.

[he can't help but frown a little, but it's more thoughtful than anything]

That - I know that much.

I wouldn't hesitate. Not when it comes to what I want to protect.

Yet you do not want battle.

Though I have noticed that the reluctant warrior is rather lionized in the stories of your people. That is not so, from whence I come.

[with a huff]

Some of the stories are, and there are others that aren't. But I'm no warrior - I'm just - me.

If you go to war, you are a warrior. Whether you like it or not.

[he smiles a bit wryly]

We're going to have to agree to disagree, then.

[Loki laughs.] And they say I am the liar.