Ah yes... he remembered that warning now, he'd conveniently forgotten it before...
"Call it a perk of being a shapeshifter?" Loki suggested lamely, holding his hands out palms up in that shrugging gesture that said 'what are ya gonna do?'. "And I have no intentions of hurting him." He lied easily, because clearly his intentions had been to kill the man, but Alex need not know that.