Alate: Having wings; lifted up in flight.
Loki clutches a rolled up Midgardian newspaper close to his chest as he tentatively approaches the giant beast that has made up its mind to take up residence on his bedroom wall. It twitches one of its eight legs, and Loki shudders in horror as he steels himself for the inevitable confrontation.
Muttering a prayer under his breath so as not to wake Thor, who is currently being useless and asleep in their bed, Loki edges centimeter by centimeter towards the giant cockroach on their wall. My God, were these things supposed to be this big? he wonders to himself as he swallows nervously and readjusts his grip on the paper. His palms are sweaty, and the ink is rubbing off onto his skin, leaving smears of black across his fingers. How did people on Midgard ever survive past infancy? he thinks with a grimace. This thing looked like it was quite capable of murder.
He squinches his eyes shut, before summoning up all his courage and jabbing blindly at the thing with his paper.
He opens his eyes after the paper lands with a solid thwack on the wall. He gasps, his eyes widening, as he looks at the cockroach, which has apparently had wings this whole time and is now soaring gleefully around the room.
And - Loki would never admit it - but he dives into bed, dropping the newspaper by the side of the bed as he burrows under the covers with a rather undignified shriek.
Thor stirs, wakes up to his husband burrowing into his side, almost suffocating himself with the covers, and with a bemused peek under the covers - "Put them back down, you imbecile!" Loki snarls at him, his face a mixture of exasperation and dread, "It can smell fear!", Thor manages to deduce that their bedchambers have been set upon by a ferocious cockroach.
A few moments of fruitless searching later, Thor nudges Loki - still hidden under the covers - and tells him that the beast appears to have flown away.
Loki, his voice muffled by the thick covers, tells him, "Well, that's it, then, I suppose, nothing for it, we'll just have to burn the whole damned place down," and refuses to budge for the rest of the day.