The only way to describe Loki's expression was shattered.
His masks had all taken too much damage to hold together and it was all he could do to piece one together from the jagged remains he had left to him to hide his pain and it still wasn't enough. Equal parts of fury, heartbreak, sorrow, and scorn flicker over his expression as her words fade and Loki let silence fill the space in between, his own voice failing him.
"You are clever." His words, when he found them, were as jagged as his the expression he wore, a whisper wrapped in nothing but pain.
Of course he wouldn't be permitted to stay in Asgard.
Of course.
What did it matter when he had no real place to claim in this realm, no blood ties to legitimately call his own?
What business did a Jotun have in the court of an Asgardian king and his kin?
"To use your pawn to its fullest value and rid yourself of its burden once it suits your needs no longer in one fell swoop." The smile on his lips was a ghost of its former self, too beaten down to even hold onto his bitter anger in its entirety. "I commend you, truly, for how well you have crafted your proposal. Your skill in strategy could rival that of our All-Father himself."
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Date: 2014-01-27 05:15 am (UTC)His masks had all taken too much damage to hold together and it was all he could do to piece one together from the jagged remains he had left to him to hide his pain and it still wasn't enough. Equal parts of fury, heartbreak, sorrow, and scorn flicker over his expression as her words fade and Loki let silence fill the space in between, his own voice failing him.
"You are clever." His words, when he found them, were as jagged as his the expression he wore, a whisper wrapped in nothing but pain.
Of course he wouldn't be permitted to stay in Asgard.
Of course.
What did it matter when he had no real place to claim in this realm, no blood ties to legitimately call his own?
What business did a Jotun have in the court of an Asgardian king and his kin?
"To use your pawn to its fullest value and rid yourself of its burden once it suits your needs no longer in one fell swoop." The smile on his lips was a ghost of its former self, too beaten down to even hold onto his bitter anger in its entirety. "I commend you, truly, for how well you have crafted your proposal. Your skill in strategy could rival that of our All-Father himself."