[ the statement is met with a non-committal shrug. Loki's solutions are generally not ones that anyone would like to undertake. he's a trickster, and a dangerous one at that. most of his solutions ended in everything from well-meaning regicide to two megaton explosions. when Loki has solutions, everything gets a little more convoluted. ]

Yourself, your intuition—I tend to trust my lies, but that's a story of a different color. [ his voice is a little candid. lies were generally his jam, but that line in moral grays was what he tended to ride. ] A novel, really.

Mortals think in terms they can understand. Time and space, stuff like that. Some of that is real, and some of it isn't, and sometimes you push the domino in the wrong way and it falls with all the other ones collapsing around it. [ his fingers twitch, and he watches Drogon with some lazy interest. ] To ALASTAIR it's a heavily guarded sorcerously-warded space in the center of this inter-dimensional pocket known appropriately as—[ his timbre lowers to fit the reveal. ]—the mechanical room.

It's where the fate of the timestream—and thus destiny—is decided.