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[dothelokimotion]

Who: Loki Odinson (dothelokimotion) and People Trapped in Arcadia
What: it's a SCHEME
When: Early July, idk time
Where: Inside Arcadia
Content Warnings: N/A

[ if you are trapped in arcadia and musing on a way to take down the authority and bust your way out, then you may notice a green magical butterfly in your vision. it's beckoning you. somehow. don't ask how magic works. you end up following it through arcadia until you set into a room.

a room unlike those in arcadia. it's all golden with red drapes and torchlights. even the view from the windows seems starry, unlike anything on earth. and there's loki, dressed in a black suit, tapping his foot impatiently. ]

Finally. Let's get to business, shall we?

( MEET AND GREET | PLOTTING )

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[dothelokimotion]

[ hmm. ]

And the Avengers are not getting involved?

[redhourglass]

( she stiffens — it’s slight, a pull of tension around her shoulders, a twitch at the corner of her lips. more than she’d have betrayed when they met years ago, but the sort of thing a normal person wouldn’t notice. )

This isn’t our fight. ( that’s easier to stomach than what avengers? )

[dothelokimotion]

[ it is odd to see romanoff's transparency. unnerving even. change is the only constant and loki isn't fool enough to believe even the avengers would remain the same forever.

and yet. romanoff's the only one loki ever had a passing level of grudging respect. ]

That has never stopped you before.

Is this because of Thanos or what Stark did?

[redhourglass]

( the dots connect in a flash — what stark did. how would loki know what stark did? (then again, this is tony, there are many what stark did situations that could apply.) face impassive, she stares at him for a long moment — weighs her words.

it’s none of his business. but maybe it is, since thanos killed him (allegedly). )

Let’s just say I’ve got bigger issues to deal with back home.

[dothelokimotion]

[ why hasn't strange told her? what sort of game was he playing? he frowns lightly. ]

Romanoff. I know you're still fighting Thanos. And the Avengers broke apart some time before.

You are . . . not yourself. What are you holding onto so desperately?

[redhourglass]

( she stills — almost preternaturally so. then, the uncertainty vanishes like it was never there, her half-smile wry and surface-level. )

How about this? We make it out of here without your knife in my back and I might even tell you.

[dothelokimotion]

[ that he finds unlikely, but he doesn't feel the need to pry. especially since he suspects he knows more than she does. and there's . . . a reason why strange hasn't told her the truth.

they are keeping her in the dark. deliberately. he's not sure he likes that. ]

As you like.