p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"It's quite peaceful when one is alone with the sounds of nature, a book in their hands. When idiot brothers are busy and you are free to do as you wish. It isn't often he gets this much time alone, but he is grateful that Thor is not bothering him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanLoki flips a page and lets himself get lost into the story. It's one he has read a thousand times but always seems to excite him. He reads and reads untill the book is nearly to an end, and he stops to take in the scents of Asgard. He is sitting in a small gazebo a ways from the palace and mostly left alone in the forests. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanLoki goes to continue reading when footsteps reach his ears. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Brother!" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanLoki sighs and stands, closing the book and setting it down. Thor strides into view, his long hair tied back into a low braid. "Brother you must come see what the Avengers have been up to." Thor says, his face amused. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Is it really that important?" Loki asks. "Don't you have duties as king?" Thor hesitates, but then shakes his head. "It'll be quick. Just come with me brother. Please?" Loki can see the hope grow in his brother's eyes. "Fine." He follows Thor through the forest and to the Bifrost, which does not take very long to traverse as they had received horses. Throughout the walk Thor has been repeatedly assuring his brother how amusing it is, and he seems unusually excited. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanAs they ride Lokispan style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanwonders what it is that the Midgardians have done to get his brother so worked up. The two of them reach the end and get off their horses, meeting Heimdall inside. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Show us the Avengers, please." Thor says, and the armored man does something with his sword and then a screen of magic takes shape before them. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanLoki does not really care anything of the Avengers, as they did stop him from taking over Earth. He watches as the image gets closer to two groups of figures on the ground. He recognizes a few of them as Avengers, like Tony Stark, Steve Rodgers, Natasha, the arrows guy who's name he can never remember, and-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanHe stops. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Isn't it amusing brother? How they fight and it seems like such a big deal?" Thor asks, but Loki can hardly hear him. His eyes are locked on those of a man with brown hair that reaches his chin and hazel eyes. A man with a face Loki thought he would never see again. "Isn't it amusing brother? How their petty rivalries seem so important to them?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Quicksand;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThor's words are distant, and Loki's gaze is locked on that of a man with long brown hair and hazel eyes. He seems unsure but willing to fight. His face is so familiar, so painfully familiar. Grief twists Loki's heart and he sucks in a pained breath. That face was one Loki never thought he would see again./span/p
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