Alright, fine. You insist on getting to the head of the line of 'Things Driving Loki Crazy,' and have done a good job at that. A winner is you.

[ He's irritated enough to want to point out that this good old Mally fellow was not actually his style anymore even if it had been in the past, but he refrains. He wasn't going to let on any little bit of what he'd seen in that meeting at the Metal sector. The little magpie that had been there had escaped clean, and his current role was as a very new newcomer.

There's a pause, just long enough for someone to say something despite the silence, and what comes next is frustrated and vaguely directed. ]

I'm not the bad guy here.

[ It just wasn't fair when an enemy unwittingly teamed up with the mocking figure he couldn't help but hallucinate from time to time. ]