"Thank you." For Thor, they were not empty words, but perhaps the glue of a thing. And the acquiring of a new way to get good things for the one he loved.
Thor had not meant them as a jab, truly, but then he had some days wished he had Loki's skill with language. While Thor looked it on the screen, he often felt in real life that he was clumsy, if not so much as his Dream counterpart.
"I mean them simply as truth." AT Loki's words, he raised an eyebrow and smiled, eyes alight. For though he worried about the way Loki had said it, he had always liked his brother's stories. For good or ill, Loki knew how to weave a tale well.