After showing Clint up, Loki led Bryn to their rooms again. Before she could enter hers, however, Loki asked her to stay in the hallway. He came out momentarily with his hands behind his back.
"I know you're probably missing your whips, and while we can't get them back for you..." He trailed off as he brought forth a couple of rolled leather strips, studded with sharp metal spikes. Bryn gasped. She grabbed them and unfurled them. They were at least three meters long, and looked very, very deadly. Bryn looked at Loki with a slightly deranged smile on her face. She had loved her whips back on Asgard, and had vanquished many enemies with them. She couldn't wait to test them in battle. She entered her room and put them away.
"So I've seen Thor, and you, and Balder has been here, but I haven't seen him. Where is the rascal?" Bryn affectionately nudged Loki, grinning. Loki looked down at the floor.
"There was an attack yesterday, right before you woke up. Balder was protecting you, and they took him instead."
"So you lied to me. You even hid that knowledge from me. Why?" Bryn was on the verge of tears, but her voice show how angry she was.
"I thought it would be better, you not having to worry about him."
"Not worry about him? By the Norns, he's the baby of the family! I worry about him all the time! DO you even have the faintest idea where he is?"
"The leader said that another organization, similar to this one, took him. They are called Hydra."
Bryn's eyes narrowed. "Then let's go find him."
Afterward, Loki would wonder how they managed to get off the Helicarrier without either Thor or the director noticing.
They had flown to the Tower of Stark, and after a little convincing they had found the most plausible location of their younger brother. They landed on the roof and snuck in, something they had perfected long before their magic. Loki was armed with guns and daggers, Bryn had added her new whips. Bryn took the elevator down to the bottom levels while Loki started from the top. She took out a few guards on each level till she reached the fifth one. There she found Balder cuffed to a chair, bloody and bruised. She used a swiped keycard to unlock him and supported him all the way to the elevator. That's where things got dicey. More guards started pouring from the stairs, too many for her to fight alone. She quickly set Balder down and started speaking.
"Listen, I know you want him. But I'm willing to offer a trade." A man stepped forward.
"What kind of trade?"
Bryn took a deep breath. "Him for me."
And that's how Loki found Balder curled up and injured in an elevator with no sign of Bryn. He closed his eyes and slid his consciousness along the threads that connected him to Bryn. In respose, she pushed images at him. Guards out numbering her. The trade she offered. Putting Balder in the elevator and slipping the suggestion in his head to search his floor a bit longer. That's how Loki came back with one less sibling than he anticipated.
So the narration style changes a bit in the middle. Is it too confusing? I don't think it is. It's just how this chapter came out. So yeah. Review, maybe?