Re: Asgard: Loki/Thor
In truth, the move to send Loki to the women first was unexpected. He did like surprises, despite the fact that he disliked being wrong. Why did Thor favor him by sending him in first? What game was he playing? Acting the magnanimous prince? Hoping kindness would win him kindness in return?
He was incapable of reacting to an act of generosity without suspicion, even one as small as allowing Loki to sit before him. Truthfully, he'd had no intention of speaking with the Norns with his brother present. But now the offer had been made, and he stepped forward, sitting across from them, with the small fire between.
The fire gentle fluctuated from bright orange to snow white, then descended low to the coals, black and blue and green, then flared again. It seemed cyclical, and Loki knew better than to watch it for long. And the Thunderer, came the plea from the sisters, indicating that he should settle beside his brother, now. Loki would ask first, but they should be together.
Loki glanced up at Thor without the gloating sheen of knowing what would come next. It was a curious expression, not one often seen. He was engaged, interested in what was to come, hungry for the knowledge the women could provide, and he didn't mind Thor's presence for that. Toleration, maybe, was in that look. Something a little like when they had been children, and Thor had lightly teased him, and it had still slid off his back, then, instead of sticking in like knives. No hate. Not today.
"I would know of my death," he said, without hesitating. He asked it with almost no feeling at all. Genial curiosity, it seemed, but there was a fire in his eye he could do nothing to hide. This information meant something to him. It was a card that no one would ever be able to take from him. If he was to know how he would die, he would always know how many steps ahead to plan, until that day when the plan led to the day in question.