>"Might as well just wear it all the time then, yeah?"
“That would be beneficial, yes. Many people get tattoos to the same effect as the charm, to avoid being at risk should the charm ever be removed or lost.” Or the complex breached, he refrained from adding - there was no need to alarm a new arrival with something that was unlikely and had, as far as he was aware, never before happened. Still, it was a possibility, in the way all things were possibilities, in this place.
>"Oh... One of the baristas asked, I told them it was fake. That I was dressed up for hazing some new cheerleaders. I think he believed it."
Loki wasn’t entirely sure what hazing and cheerleaders meant, but he refrained from asking - the proverbial last thing a new arrival needed was to have to explain what was probably something very simple to the person who had come to assist them, he reasoned. He simply nodded in response, making a mental note to ‘Google’ the words later.
She said she didn’t need anything, so he was preparing to teleport them to the complex when she spoke again, asking how he had managed to teleport himself there, and to hide them. He offered an amused little smile, letting the power he’d gathered for the spell recede for a moment. “Magic,” he responded simply, then, “There is a far more complicated explanation I could offer, but I’m afraid unless you have studied the subject somewhat extensively, it will not make much sense to you.”