The inside of the building grew dim as white puffs faded into cream and pinks laced with purple, and a burning orange glow tinting everything it falls upon. The halls and rooms are falling silent as they empty for the evening.
He drug the stiff bristles of the brush into the pores of the bricks scrubbing at the graffiti hard enough to drain the color from his fingers. He silently swore that if he ever caught the punks who did this he would personally take the paint can and use it against them in the most painfully inappropriate way he could.
After removing the last of the graffiti from the wall he released the brush into the bucket of murky water. He sighed as he stared at his hands, his once long pale digits now stained with gray.
It wasn't his fault that stupid teacher knew nothing and was sharing incorrect information with the class.
"I've had enough of your smart mouth Loki! To the administrator's office, immediately! You have after-school detention!" he mocked in a high tone.
A deep chuckle caused him to jump and snap his head towards the directions of the sound.
"Talking to yourself again, brother?"
Loki quickly composed himself, narrowing his eyes and making his tone with cold indifference.
"Perhaps," he intones.
Blue eyes looked over the small figure.
"Loki, your uniform is... filthy."
Glancing down at his white shirt, he noted the dark stains along his sides and pulling his slender shoulders up he shrugged.
"Oh well. I'm finding it difficult to care."
"Hmm. So, what have you done now?"
Loki brought his fingers to his lips in mock offense.
"I have done nothing Thor."
"Oh really?" he scoffed. "So you volunteered yourself to scrub the walls then?" he said biting back a smirk and folding his arms across his broad chest.
Narrowing his eyes again, Loki sneered.
"Ha," he said flatly. "Very funny, but no, I've done nothing no such thing." Loki paused as he crouched down next to a water spout to wash the filth from his hands.
"So, brother, why are you here so late? I'm sure that father would have wanted you home by now."
