“Mama,” Thea wanders in with a wild rabbit captured in her arms. The poor little creature had wandered into the vast and lovely back gardens and had been terrified by both fox and hellhound. The clever creatures had found Theophania posthaste and she, in her sweet and gentle manner, had managed to coax the frightened creature out from under a rose bush. “Mama! I find a bunny! He scared,” she shakes her head sadly, crooning to the shivering rabbit, “is okay, you safe now. Mama gonna help.”

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Loki has sensed his witchling’s distress already.  He descends the stairs from his study, every surface, including the outside corner of his right hand,  littered with ornately inked runes.  He kneels before Thea, implored from any corner of the cosmos by those two syllables: mama.  

      “Here, loveling.  Here.  Give your friend to me.  I’ve a spell for soothing her.”

Loki strokes the rabbit’s spine, savoring the feel of its softest and warmest fur, murmuring an incantation in a watery tongue.  A murky earth-hued cloud of magic brightens to gold and mingles with lime, effecting a blissful sedation. 

Reminder

theadoptedprince:

As king, whilst pretending to be Odin, Loki did the following:

  • Pardoned Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three of their treason
  • Treated Thor as Loki himself had never been treated by their Father
  • Separated the two Infinity Stones in Asgardian protection, and gave one to another powerful being, for the sake of preventing both from being found at once or from making Asgard a higher priority target 
  • Removed Asgardian troops from the rest of the Nine and kept them on Asgard, where the Space Stone was being kept and therefore where they were most needed, whilst also creating a time of peace for Asgard
  • Pushed Asgard toward entertainments (theatre) that aren’t violent
  • Rebranded himself as a hero rather than just allowing his identity as the Jotun Prince become all that would be remembered

And that’s just what was shown.