Nish reacted to that before Loki had a chance to and tried to head him off.
’Oh no, did he just…”
‘He did,’ Loki replied, and Nish could feel the trickster in him coming out, grinning internally with glee. ’This is going to be fun…’
‘Loki, don’t…’
‘What?’
‘Just…be good,’ she pleaded. He chuckled softly and turned his attention back on Ben.
“I like it,” he said, about his ‘cool nickname’. “You must have learned a lot reading then. What was your favourite part of the old stories?” he asked, fully expecting the answer to be ‘Loki and how awesome he is’.