Chains rattled as the mortal was brought forward, led by Thor. Loki, under the guise of Odin, sat on the throne and watched them grow closer with some sense of nostalgia. He had once been in those chains as well.
"Again you bring a mortal to Asgard?" He said in his best Odin imitation. It wasn't hard to do, for all their differences he shared the distaste Odin held for humans, although he didn't underestimate them anymore. No, he had been bested by them far too often to think them harmless and weak.
Thor knelt and Loki suppressed the twitch of mouth that always happened when he saw that. "I ask only that she be kept in the dungeons of Asgard, Allfather."
"Do mortals not have prisons of their own?"
Thor swallowed hard averting his eyes and that's when Loki noticed how close an eye Thor was keeping on his prisoner. "None that can hold her."
Well, that was interesting wasn't it? What kind of prisoner had Thor brought for him?— he wondered and finally looked at the prisoner.
A pretty thing, if a bit plain. Dark hair curling around a small narrow face, her eyes were lowered he couldn't quite see what colour they were and really, she was utterly tiny. Loki wasn't quite given to underestimating people for their size, not when he himself had been so often but there was little more but bones to her and he could not imagine that she had the strength to lift them let alone get them to work for her freedom.
A low hum filled the throne room, coming from the prisoner he realised. Her mouth did not move obviously but he thought there was a slight lilt to the chapped lips now that wasn't there before. It was a light airy sound but soon solidified and grew loud and suddenly Loki froze.
He knew that tune. It had taken him longer to recognise it when she hummed it, her voice was sweet and nothing like the harsh guttural way he had heard it before. It was the tune his chitauri captors had sung while torturing him. He knew that sound well and he could not fathom why this mortal child would know it.
And then she looked up. Poisonous pale blue eyes that glowed unholy looked up at him.
Thanos' eyes. This was no mere mortal.