Around midnight tonight, Loki was suddenly hit with what he thought was possibly
the solution to this whole barrier thing. He would have simply disappeared from the hotel room he's sharing with Darcy, and gone out to the trees.
Knowing that it had copied what he'd done against it, last time, he went in a little ways, probing around until he felt it pay attention to him. Then, he opened his mind. (This in itself probably felt weird/chilling to psychictypes, for all of like a minute.)
The barrier... did not copy him, like he'd expected it would have. Instead, it
reached in and
stole something. (...cue more pain for psychictypes).
Loki was then thrown out of the trees, unconscious.
A few minutes later, a second Loki emerged from the forest.