Odin lifted his chin slightly. "And you misunderstand me. I will do no more than return you to Midgard so that you may save your child. It is in your hands to save your daughter from Loki's manipulations. I only ask that once you have done so, you turn your rage to whom it rightfully belongs. Loki has deceived you and endangered both your life and the life of your child, all in his mad pursuit of vengeance for his imagined slights." His lips thinned slightly as his grip tightened on the staff he carried. "Loki has survived even when we thought him dead. He has been killed and returned in another body, another time and place to continue his mad goal of toppling Asgard. Like you, he has proven...unstoppable."
"Liiiiiiies!" A bird cawed from the stairwell nearby and Odin's head jerked toward it. The magpie that once sat upon Creed's shoulders, keen intelligent eyes locked onto Odin. "Lieslieslies." It chirped over and over, wings flaring.
Odin's teeth ground together. Again with the damn bird. He moved to shoo it away as he did before and it continued to watch him impassively. Finally he groaned and turned away, dismissing the creature entirely. "Loki remains on Earth along with his son, for whom you sacrificed yourself." His eye narrowed slightly. "I will return you to Earth. You have no place here in Asgard and your mission to save your daughter begins there."
"Lies!" the bird cawed once more, wings flared. "Truth is locked in the Tesseract!"
As soon as the final word exploded from the creature's beak, Odin's head whipped around to the creature and his staff came up. With a small but pointed bolt the creature exploded into a spray of blood and feathers to decorate the wall of the stairwell.
Finally there was silence and Odin sighed as if in relief, turning back toward Creed as he lowered the staff into a relaxed stance once more. "Quiet at last." He muttered and became calm again, as if the incident with the creature never happened, nor that the animal's words had struck some sort of chord. Such a quick and violent reaction to what he had proclaimed a mindless creature's cackling was curious to say the least.
"To return to Earth you will travel through the bifrost. I only hope that you can stop Loki before he endangers your child further." Odin said finally and stepped back from the opening of the cage, nodding for Creed to join him.