[ Surprisingly enough, Natasha found that his words struck a cord with her, and the natural result came in the softening of her expression. On the list of people she never expected to (or wanted to) empathize with, Loki hovered somewhere near the top. Many people would consider what Natasha had done for most of her life villainous on some level, but given the chance, she'd walked away from it. She couldn't imagine trying to unstick programming like that after millennia.
That didn't necessarily mean she believed him, for it was too easy to imagine the Loki of her world twisting just such a notion to breach her defenses. Luckily, he provided something else for consideration. A Loki who'd survived the dark elves, one who was biding his time somewhere out of Thor's awareness. It wasn't impossible. But it wasn't appealing, either. ]
For Thor's sake, I hope you're wrong. [ And for her own. But she won't argue it too hard—she's seen enough faked deaths now to know that it's a perfectly legitimate possibility, but she also knows that it would be better for Thor to mourn his brother than to see New York repeat itself. ] You said ALASTAIR ordered you to kill the gods for using up too much energy. "Energy" is the same argument they use to justify keeping us here. Any merit to it?
[ She didn't expect a straight answer or even a reliable one, but if she got one, then an Asgardian opinion on the subject was worth more than any other she could find. She wasn't in the business of turning away good information just because it came from an unreliable source. ]
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That didn't necessarily mean she believed him, for it was too easy to imagine the Loki of her world twisting just such a notion to breach her defenses. Luckily, he provided something else for consideration. A Loki who'd survived the dark elves, one who was biding his time somewhere out of Thor's awareness. It wasn't impossible. But it wasn't appealing, either. ]
For Thor's sake, I hope you're wrong. [ And for her own. But she won't argue it too hard—she's seen enough faked deaths now to know that it's a perfectly legitimate possibility, but she also knows that it would be better for Thor to mourn his brother than to see New York repeat itself. ] You said ALASTAIR ordered you to kill the gods for using up too much energy. "Energy" is the same argument they use to justify keeping us here. Any merit to it?
[ She didn't expect a straight answer or even a reliable one, but if she got one, then an Asgardian opinion on the subject was worth more than any other she could find. She wasn't in the business of turning away good information just because it came from an unreliable source. ]