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Only one more day to go then Atli would be home again. Loki smiled, he couldn't wait to feel Atli's arms around him... and the rest of him too Loki thought with a lusty smile. Loki looked around to make sure no one was looking at him, but he needn't have worried since there was hardly anyone ever in the library. The Aesir were about battle and glory first. Intelligence came often times 3 or 4th. It was only because their long lives that they had the technology that they did.
He went back to his book on magic. He had spent most of the week working on it. Although he had had to leave his books a few times, when his brother via their father's commands had forced him to train. Which hadn't gone well, it rarely even did. Especially since magic wasn't allowed in the training sessions; not that it probably would have made much of a difference since he had sparred with his brother. Which resulted in his body being a sore mess, again. Thor had clapped a hand over his shoulder when they were done- right where there was a particularly big bruise- to show his appreciation that Loki had fought with him. Loki's body was extremely sore, but he could deal with it. He was a lot less tender and fragile than Thor and his parents thought he was.
Loki today was focusing on healing spells. Technically, he probably shouldn't be doing or even attempting these kind of spells without a senior healer around, in case he said or did something wrong. Loki though had long ago stopped following most of the rules about when and who with he had to do spells. Still he wasn't going to be actually trying any of the spells that day. They required a lot of book knowledge before he could even try to cast a healing spell successfully. Still it was a good spell to learn. Someone sat down across from him and he didn't have to take his eyes off his book to know who it was.
"Healing spells? Aren't you supposed to have a senior healer around?" Thor asked and Loki rolled his eyes.
"Yes, but we both know that we both always listen to the rules." Loki said sarcastically. Thor after a moment nodded, Loki was not the only one who broke rules and Thor knew it. Even if Loki did tend to break them more than Thor.
"You don't mean to heal your own wounds?" Thor asked. Even though from the tone of his voice it didn't seem like he really believed it.
"I told you Thor I'm fine." Loki said. Thor nodded as his eyes looked over the other titles on the table, all of them were about healing.
"I know I don't know much about magic but isn't healing magic too advanced for you?" Loki momentarily looked away from his book to Thor.
"You're right, you don't know much about healing magic." Loki said stiffly.
"Brother you seem to be cross with me still." Loki froze for a second at the pitiful sound of Thor's voice. He had always had a hard time saying no to Thor when he got like this. He was pretty sure most people did. Which was why Thor got his way most of the time and never got punished for anything. Loki was about to back down before he remembered why he was being snippy.
"Congratulations on the marvelous deduction." he said and grabbed the healing books intent to take them to his room where he could study them in peace.
"Loki." Thor said at his back but Loki didn't turn around, even though there was a part of him that wanted to.
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