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Miguel ([info]miguel_ohara) wrote in [info]spinningcompass,
@ 2020-10-31 14:00:00

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Entry tags:!closed, abra stone, loki, miguel o'hara (other)

Who: AU!Miguel and not AU!Loki, and Abra later on.
Where: A docking bay on wheel 4
What: Just a chat! >.> <.<
When: today, before lunchtime
Rating: Quite high indeed
Open: Nope
Status: Ongoing



Miguel's eyes were getting better. Slowly, very slowly. Far slower than he would have liked, or was used to. Sarah had really made a mess of them. He checked every morning when he woke up, and he was currently starting to get back the ability to detect lighter and darker areas. It still hurt, so he wore cloth bandages wrapped around his head and completely covering his eyes. There was no way anyone on this station would give him medical attention, and they'd heal on their own anyway. Eventually. So he covered them up, and let Bonnie's light-spell and Lyla's constant audio description of everything guide him through his days.

He could see people, where they were. And he could see Bonnie and Lyla amazingly well, which was helpful. He could make out outlines of things like walls and doorways. He could see where his phone was, but he couldn't read anything on it. He needed Lyla to describe things for him, her voice low and soft so that he could hear her easily but she wouldn't annoy anyone else if they were around. And she had to read everything out to him. It was a very awkward way of existing, and he wasn't overly fond of it, but it was how it had to be for the time being.

He was still determined to work out a way of getting people from his station to this one, though, and without needing to do swaps. So he went through the ships and scrap components he found in the various docking bays on Wheel 4, and between Lyla and himself, they were sorting out a good amount of useful parts.

He was buried inside part of the engine inside a scrapped ship of some sort, him finding his way around the components with his hands while Lyla described everything to him and answered his questions. Every so often, she would manifest and show him her scan of the components since she was the thing he could see clearest.

"Show me how these fit together, would you?" he asked, holding some sort of glowing cuboid in one hand and the housing that felt like the cuboid should have fit into it in the other. He couldn't see the details, so he needed Lyla to show him where there were any contact points or breakage areas or anything like that. "And what's this made of? I can sort of see all of it."

"Of course. One moment, Miguel."

Weird. Normally it was instantaneous.


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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-01 11:22 am UTC (link)
Without the mind gem it was surprisingly frustrating to track down Miguel. He did not know him well enough to track him through magic. It was a complication. He had not spent much time on it either. There were other priorities. Higgs. Higgs was the priority and his downfall. But there was an incentive to retrieving the people that had vanished. One was knowledge, one were the connection they held to people he knew. Additionally, the expectation that it would make him look good was icing on the cake.

He was quick when he appeared behind Miguel. He took a syringe and injected it into Miguel's neck. A small piece of the gold dust was inside in the a syringe and was now entering the other man's blood stream.

"Hi," he said with a smirk, readying the infinity stone in his arm to stop the man dead in his tracks.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-01 11:52 am UTC (link)
What the shock?!

Even though Loki had the advantage of surprise, Miguel's reaction speed was far faster than any normal human's could ever hope to be. He could evade multiple bullets fired at him at close range, after all, and so he was out from the engine, fangs bared as he lunged at whoever had attacked him almost instantaneously. His talons were out fully as he swiped at the outline of light he could see - his talons could cut through metal, and he had sliced through plenty of throats by now. He had no problems with doing something similar here.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-02 02:43 am UTC (link)
The god was surprised by the speed in which the other man reacted. He had never paid him much attention. He had always been a mortal with a few added abilities. Nothing special. The average wannabe hero. Thankfully, the mortal was not the only person with reactions quick enough to react to shots fired. The god wasn't quite as quick as Miguel but he did not need to be. All he had to do was activate the energy from the stone and stop the man in his tracks. The energy of space lashed out at Loki's attacker, materialising where he was.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-02 07:35 am UTC (link)
For the second time in as many seconds, Miguel's only thoughts were "What the shock?!" as almost his entire body froze. He could move his head, and he could breathe, and he could feel his heartbeat thudding with adrenaline, but he couldn't do anything else. And he didn't know who was standing in front of him. He didn't know that outline.

"What the shock do you want?" he spat out, still trying desperately to move a finger or a hand or anything.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-02 07:46 am UTC (link)
That reaction pleased the god. Until it reminded him of his own struggle a few years back. He scowled in dissatisfaction. He had not anticipated that another man's dilemma would bring forward such memories.

"Your counterpart," he said smoothly. "Now, I would advice you not to fight back. It will only make your situation worse." He stepped forward, his mind set on teleporting them somewhere else to conduct a more thorough exam of his mind.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-02 08:20 am UTC (link)
Crap. Loki.

"What did you inject me with? Why can't I shocking move?" Miguel demanded, just before he felt a sharp tug and then... then he was somewhere else. He glanced round and the outlines were different. Shock shock shock...

"I don't have my Other, and I don't know where he is. Are we done? Good, let me go."

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-02 08:31 am UTC (link)
"Don't you?" he asked with a smirk as he stepped away from the form in front of him. He had time, he did not need to act quickly. They were untraceable, they were cut off. "Come on, Miguel, I have been told you were smart. Pretend you have at least an ounce of a brain. Hmm? Why have people been switched out? Why did Higgs not simply bring you over so you could board the next spaceship and live happily ever after? You could have been undetected but no, instead you replaced someone... was it to amuse Higgs or is there another reason?"

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-02 10:15 am UTC (link)
"I asked my questions first," Miguel countered, trying to listen to see if he could work out where he was (and to stall). Lyla was silent, which was good. If Loki forgot about her, he wouldn't do anything to her.

He watched as Loki moved, keeping most of his attention on that glowing outline. And he said nothing else.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-02 10:27 am UTC (link)
"Because I don't want you to move and convinced the universe to see it my way," he said with an eyeroll before he became more serious again. He did not like being defied by someone who was his prisoner. He hardly needed his consent to do what he was about to. "But, yes, I guess, we are done then. I do not need to talk to you to get to the information I need."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-02 11:29 am UTC (link)
"Questions, Loki, plural. What did you inject into me?"

He struggled again as he spoke but nothing worked, nothing moved except for his head.

...oh, shock.

"Stay out of my head. Stay the shock out of my head, you bastard!"

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-02 11:40 am UTC (link)
The stone in his arm was still active. He flinched for a moment as its strength rippled through him. Slowly, he walked towards the other man. "No, I think your chance has passed," he said calmly and dispelled the piece of gold dust he had on himself. Then he raised his hand in order to touch the other man's temple.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-02 12:35 pm UTC (link)
The bright outline of Loki's hand got close enough to touch him, and then Miguel struck. He was half-spider. He had fangs and the venom to go with it. As soon as he was certain Loki's arm was in range, he moved his head as quickly as possible and bit down hard, pumping as much venom into the other man's arm as he could. His venom had floored giants and cyborgs, it had dealt with all kinds of would-be attackers. He didn't want anyone in his head.

"Don't shocking touch me," he snapped as he pulled back, and shook his head to get rid of any more droplets of venom.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-02 01:03 pm UTC (link)
"You little..." Loki snarled as the pain rushed through his arm. His other hand snapped upwards and a short shockwave erupted from it, leashing into the still captive form. It was gentle for the comparison of what it could do. The power gem could lay planets to waste. Today it didn't. It only provided him with the timeframe to latch his left hand onto his neck and get a grip just underneath chin so that his head would be held in place.

But that wasn't all that happened. A moment later he noticed the spread of numbness in his arm. It was localised, just where Miguel had bid him. "Venom, really?" A second later he started to rot the part of his arm away and the numbness vanished.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-02 01:29 pm UTC (link)
He didn't yell or scream as whatever-the-purple-light was made his head snap back, but when it stopped hurting and scattering his thoughts, he realized that he'd slumped forward with a groan into Loki's hand round his neck. If he didn't want breathing to become an issue, he needed to pull his head back again.

Then there was the little comment about his venom, and he just grinned. "Spider," he said, as if that explained everything. He would have shrugged if he'd been able to move.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-02 01:48 pm UTC (link)
"Undead," he said back, the grin matching that of Miguel. "So then..." Loki once again reached out with his hand to touch the other man's face. Nothing happened when he did. Stunned silence. A frown. "Shit!" The gold dust he had injected into the other man blocked his connection.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-02 04:15 pm UTC (link)
"So then...?" Miguel repeated back at Loki after he swore.

"What now? You're going to let me go now?"

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-03 12:10 am UTC (link)
"Of course not," he said in a 'don't be silly'-kind of voice. Instead he moved around to his neck, using a force shield to protect himself from the bite-y little spider. He let a dagger appear in his hand and then a moment later he started to cut through the man's skin to get to the gold dust.

"Now, I would like to apologise but some things are necessary." There was almost a gentleness in his voice. He did not expect the man to understand, he was not quite sure if he cared but he respected the man's spirit. The biting - he might have done the very same if roles were to be reversed.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-03 08:01 am UTC (link)
"What are yo- SHOCK!" Miguel yelled and swore constantly as Loki dug around in his neck with a blade. He might not be able to move, but he felt everything. Every cut of the blade, the blood running down his neck and soaking into the clothes he was wearing, all of it.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-03 08:57 am UTC (link)
"Now, now, a little sacrifice is necessary to reunite a family," he said and removed the little piece of gold with the tip of a dagger. Once done, the god used the space gem to fixate the back of Miguel's head . That done he reached forward and touched his temple once again. "Ah, better..." he murmured with a smile on his face as the familiar sensations of the bridge to Miguel's mind flooded through his. But it wasn't the mind he was after. He recruited the abilities of the space gem to widen his range.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-03 11:39 am UTC (link)
The sharp pain stopped, although the ache remained, and Miguel would have slumped forward if he could, but then there were fingers on his face again. Suddenly arcs of blue lightning filled his light-sight and he could see brightness with his actual eyes through the bandages and his eyelids as well. "NO!" he yelled, and started trying to thrash his head from side to side. Did Loki need contact for this? Miguel was going to make that as difficult for him as he could.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-09 12:20 am UTC (link)
The more Miguel struggled, the more Loki locked the other man's head with the space gem. He had intended on leaving the man alive if he could. People frowned on murder on the station. "Now," this time he growled as his concentration was interrupted. "You have a chance to make it out alive. Do you really want to waste it like this?" And with that he dived back into the connections, following them, first to Higgs but that wasn't where they stopped.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-09 11:10 am UTC (link)
He couldn't move. He couldn't see anything but bright light. He was trying so shocking hard not to panic, but he was terrified and it felt like he was eight years old again, keeping Gabri safe while his Dad beat the shit out of his Ma and knowing that it was his turn next because he had nowhere to go and noone to go to, nobody to believe him or care.

He started going over the basic concepts of genetics in his head, DNA and RNA, the building blocks of nucleotides, all sorts, everything and anything he could think of. Old coping mechanisms.

All his knowledge and strength, skills and abilities, and he couldn't do anything to make it stop.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-09 11:30 am UTC (link)
A few moments passed and he then he had the information he needed. Interesting, he thought to himself as he stepped back. His mind started racing already, thinking about the possibilities and implications. He released his grip on Miguel's head. The man's instinct to fight, spit and claw was endearing in Loki's opinion. He had respect for people who did not give up. Loki himself only ever did that in order to postpone the fight to another day.

"Now, you might get lucky... hmm... yes, maybe I will not need to replace you," he said as he pondered on how to proceed. This might be a chance he would only get once. The strings were attached to Higgs and from there he needed to pass on. His own competency in mind wandering was lacking compared to that of others. With the mind and space gem combined it was a possibility but he lacked half of it. Dan and Abra had forged the bridge to Higgs' mind a few months ago. He considered calling on Dan but Abra's power reached farther than his ever would. Yes, a little visit to the sorceress might work out well. Her eagerness to help could be stirred into the direction he needed.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-09 08:31 pm UTC (link)
As soon as he could move his head again, Miguel gasped and jerked away from where the bright light had come from, the side of his head smacking into his still-outstretched arm.

Loki was talking but he wasn't listening. He couldn't. The pain in his mind (not just his head, his mind) was gone for the moment, but now the absense of pain filled his head with white noise that was taking longer than he liked to die down. He could usually cope with pain - his body was designed to deal with it and to heal quickly - but this was different. He needed to think, jammit, he needed to work out how to get away from Loki and the not-noise that had filled his mind.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-09 11:26 pm UTC (link)
Not much of a talker, Loki decided as he let the illusion vanish from Abra's place. He glanced back at the man, wondering why he was so quiet. "Fine... let's make this easier for all of us, shall we?" he asked. His tone was still soft. Loki did not think he was being cruel. But the young sorceress might. "Don't bite, little spider, or I need to be less kind." And with that he reached out to other man's head again.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2020-11-09 11:50 pm UTC (link)
Miguel shook his head to try and clear it, but then there was a hand against his face again. He could still move his head this time, so he twisted away as best he could.

"Shock no! Don't touch me, don't touch me again or I swear, I'll bite your shocking fingers off," he ground out, even as he tried to keep moving out of the way of Loki's hand.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-10 12:08 am UTC (link)
"Yes, yes," he said drily as he touched the man from the back. A quick touch and a pulse of magic spread through the other man's mind, rendering him unconscious. He drew back from the limb form, releasing the limb form the spell of the infinity stone.

With a quick spell, he brought young Abra to the empty planet. Stretches of sand hills were the only thing that greeted her alongside the unmoving form of Miguel. Only the small trace of blood in the back was evidence that a struggle had taken place.

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[info]abra_stone
2020-11-10 08:58 pm UTC (link)
Abra held her hand out over Miguel's form. using her shine to give herself a peek into the fight.  "Spider vs. the undead.  You could have sold tickets."  She joked, though she knew a few people on the station would have loved to see it. 

She looked around at the hills, checking to see if any of the sand was as black as in Higgs' mind.  "What do we do next?"  She asked.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-10 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Loki chuckled whole-heartedly at that comment. Oh, he liked her. Humour and ruthlessness were a formidable combination. She would make a terrifying foe one day.

"Let's settle down over there. We will need his head," he said and pointed towards the limb form. He walked over to it and took a seat next to Miguel's head.

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[info]abra_stone
2020-11-10 10:54 pm UTC (link)
Abra nodded and sat next to him, watching carefully.  She reached out through her shine, probing Miguel's mind gently to get a feel for how different he was from the Miguel she knew.   She could joke with her friends about getting time off school and still miss the teacher, the real teacher.  "You're lucky you got to keep your head attached to the rest of you."   She whispered to unconscious form. 

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-10 11:29 pm UTC (link)
Another chuckle. His ears picked up the whisper. "I've tried to tell him that but his ability to listen to reason is highly impaired," he concluded. It was a sensible conclusion in Loki's mind. "Now, first I would like to show you something..." He held out his arm for her to take. Hand held open to the sky. There was a shimmer of blue crawling out from under his sleeve. It radiated a sense of power to anyone who could pick up on it. Strong power. Old power.

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[info]abra_stone
2020-11-11 05:23 pm UTC (link)
"That would explain why he's working with Higgs."  Abra took his arm and watched the shimmering blue.  She couldn't help being curious.  Power was tempting in any form. They were always monsters.  She wanted to be strong to defeat Higgs and any others that came to the station, looking to hurt the people she cared about or anyone innocent. "Is that your magic?"  She asked.  

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-11 11:38 pm UTC (link)
Loki could see the curiosity in her eyes. Good. Excellent. Without curiosity, eyes were closed to the world and one would not learn. "It is and it isn't. It is something much more ferocious than that. It is part of the very fabric of the universe, an ancient part. But I guide it, like not many can. Let me show you..." And with that he gave her a sense of the stone, filtered just a little of the energy to her. It gave her a sense of SPACE around her. The vastness of the universe, how it spread into endlessness and how they were terribly small against them. Planets, people, animals - there were tiny bits of sand in the playground of existence. Against, everything Loki and Abra were meaningless. At first it had disturbed the god, it had gnawed at him. Even though it was him who was wielding the tool, it was just a tool. But in the end, it was a freeing realisation.

It wasn't, however, what he wanted to show her. Just perspective. He found it helpful to have a map. It wasn't just a sense of direction and of size. It was knowledge of it. Something that wasn't quite comprehendible to a mind like theirs. But if she would turn her attention to any place, she could feel it, could feel the bustling of activity or the absence of things. He couldn't make it last but it was something that would stay with her for the next few weeks and slowly fade. Once the connection to the stone broke, it would not give her an accurate picture anymore. It would be a throwback to the point they were at now. But streets and alleyways would not change. Neither did planets or black holes.

"Do you understand what you've been shown, Abra?" he asked softly. It was a lot for a young mind to take in. But often the young were better at it than creatures as old as he was.

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[info]abra_stone
2020-11-17 12:57 am UTC (link)
Abra connected with the power easily.  She wanted more of it, to learn how to become a giant in the playground.   "Yes."  She answered softly.  "Everyone on the station, Higgs' people and our people, we're all like ants and the station is a pile of sugar we're crawling over."  In the grander scheme of things, their fight was insignificant.   

Abra could feel an entire universe around her, and beyond that more universes with their own plants, stars and moons that they would never see without a door or other magic.   There was a vastness of space that would never be touched by their little conflict.  "We're so small and it's so big." She added.

Abra forced herself to look even beyond that realization.  Loki had shown her this for a reason.  The sugar pile was theirs and needed to be defended.  The bad ants had to be squished.   She figured it out slowly. 

"We can feel everything, find everything.  We can find our missing people?"  Abra asked it, rather than state it outright.   It was all so new. She needed to know if she was on the right track and figuring out what she needed to know to help Loki and all of her family and friends.

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-11-17 01:20 am UTC (link)
Loki smiled softly to himself as the girl caught on. Her mind was quick and her power enough to keep up with what they were doing. It was impressive. "Ah, yes, that is what we are here for. But it would be too much to turn every stone in the universe. We need to know what we are looking for. We need a connection." At this point he nodded towards the unconscious Miguel. "That is one start. The other is you. He is has been your teacher. You know him, way better than I do." He was not interested in making deep connections with most. "So, follow me." The god took their hands and placed them on Miguel's forehead. Hers under his.

"Try it," he said softly. He wanted to give her a chance to see for herself. To feel the bridge that led first to Higgs and then off to somewhere else. To another presence, a familiar presence. Loki's connection with the original Miguel was not strong enough to reach there and his mind wandering skills were not polished enough to ignore the set back. But it was not the only reason, he showed her this. The more power she gained, the more support she could offer later. And Abra, she had both potential and drive to do it.

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[info]abra_stone
2020-11-20 11:00 pm UTC (link)
Much too much, Abra thought.  The universe had so many 'stones' where Higgs could have hidden and imprisoned their friends.  She followed Loki's lead, touching fake Miguel gently. 

Abra reached out through her shine, using the physical contact as a guide to the real Miguel.  It was different than finding anyone on the station, or finding Dan back home.  She wasn't sure if that was because of Loki, the other universe and the distance between them or a combination of all of it.  She managed to gain a vision, blurry at first, of a very still Miguel.  "He's dead."  She whispered, with a tinge of anger bubbling up.   She pushed it back down.  Revenge would come later. 

When Abra was calm, she saw him breathing.   "No, not dead.  He's unconscious like this Miguel.  We should hurry and bring him home"   She looked around at his surroundings in her vision, trying to see where he was.   "You see him too, right?" She asked.  "How do we get to him?"

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-12-07 11:00 am UTC (link)
The young woman's thinking was quick. She was a natural in using her abilities. "I'm impressed, little sorceress. Now, the question is can you impress me even more. Can you follow the connection into his plane?" he asked softly. It was a huge distance to span. But this was a task even many competent old sorceress could not pull of. Loki himself would struggle to do the task on his own.

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[info]abra_stone
2020-12-07 11:34 pm UTC (link)
Abra concentrated all her energy into keeping and following the connection with Miguel.  Her eyes remained pure white and a trickle of blood fell from her nose.  It was further than she had ever reached before, even more than contacting someone on the other side of a station door.  Once she was certain she could do it, she answered.  "Yes."

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[info]truly_desperate
2020-12-18 12:06 pm UTC (link)
A smile spread on Loki's lips. "Excellent. Go and I'll follow," he said as he observed the changed in her. He wondered what it meant, that trickle of blood. Was it harmful to the little sorceress - using her power? It did not matter right now. He could catch her if she dove too deep. He wouldn't let her get hurt. But it was a mystery, something he would like to know.

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