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There is talk of burning. A school.

I do not... cast blame, but. [ Pause. ] If you have seen or known of Loki doing such things as might beg a closer glance...

[asofwar]

[A burning school - children and refugees and - ]

Did you hold the school dear to you?

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...not past measure, I hardly knew of -

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Is this how we must wonder of such things? 'Does Thor cherish it, so Loki might make him rue it'?

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[asofwar]

I am simply pointing out what has motivated him in the past. What makes you think he would aim for a school, when he has barely been seen near it?

[asofwar]

Loki likes books.

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Better or worse than destruction?

[asofwar]

Should I ask?

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Ask what? There was rampant destruction with yet unknown cause.

I have to make sure. It is not as if he is without precedent.

[ Cough. ]

And... his pride is not harmed, if he does not know I question.

[ Hint: do not let Loki know Thor questions. ]

[asofwar]

It takes little for his pride to be harmed.

[Hint: he'd be harmed either way. Think about him or not.]

I should think - [No, she should like to think that the man who pushed her out of harm's way on impulse;] - he would not burn schools.

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Since the Lady Sif vouches for it, then it is so.

[asofwar]

And when did the Lady Sif become an authority on your brother's doings?

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When I lost the title.

[asofwar]

You did not lose the title. It would be foolish to assume there is any higher authority on Loki than Loki himself.

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And shall I hasten to ask him? "Brother, have you found yourself with torch and want of entertainment"?

[asofwar]

Evidently not.

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Precisely. You judge as Fandral did. Two cannot both be in error.

[asofwar]

...he would give a dozen second chances.

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...Fandral?

[asofwar]

Have you not noticed?

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I did not think we had enough traitors for friend Fandral to give countless opportunities.

[asofwar]

Just the one is enough.

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You know of something I do not?

[asofwar]

Many things. But not in this - we know the same.

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Then? He has not spoken in Loki's favour. Not to me.