Video: Fifth Trick

[doeswhathewants]

[The video kicks on and Loki is sitting cross legged on a roof, view of buildings in the background behind him, the NV is propped up so the view is at an angle. The hood of his zip front sweatshirt pulled over his face, casting a shadow. Green eyes fairly glow from under the shade of that hood. He's smiling and it's just a bit sharp, a bit smug as he carefully plucks up and eats a blue M&M from a bowl of entirely blue M&M's, a can of Redbull held loosely in his right hand.]

Blizzard.

Rather inconvenient. [The smile grows more sly.] For some people, anyway.

For others, well, perhaps it is better that some of us are on the straight and narrow. [A grinning pause] Mostly.

[He pops another blue M&M into his mouth, chewing silently while he considers]

Boring, boring, boring. The walls are closing in. You know what happens then? Some real fun. Not yet, but soon. You'll know when it starts.

Comments

[doeswhathewants]

....do you know what a velociraptor is?

[He has a feeling that he is going to lead you into temptation. And you will like it.]

[where_the_hearth_is]

No?

[So many things lost to time.]

[doeswhathewants]

Hmm. I will need to find a picture then. If you are sure you are capable of sculpting anything. Don't get me wrong, I trust in your talents, but sculpting unknown things, would you be able to truly do that based on only a reference picture?

[See whut he did thar?]

[where_the_hearth_is]

If you want precision, I'd recommend a hologram model. But as long as I have a clear understanding of the shape, then yes.

[doeswhathewants]

[Considers for a moment, eyes narrowed in thought.]

Ah! I could do an illusion, that would be three dimensional and as good as the real thing.

[where_the_hearth_is]

That sounds perfect!

[doeswhathewants]

You and I, Ox, are going to get along very well and have very much fun.

[where_the_hearth_is]

As long as you don't try closing my walls in, I'm sure we will.

[doeswhathewants]

Oh never, that would be a violation of your ah... personal... dignity.

...or something.

[where_the_hearth_is]

It would hurt. And it would break a hideous amount of circuitry.

[doeswhathewants]

You feel pain? ... [Blurts that out then thinks twice and gives a sheepish smile]

I mean that in the ah- least insulting way possible.

[where_the_hearth_is]

Not when everything is functioning properly. But when I first arrived here, there was a great deal of - dissonance, between how I should have been operating and how I was, with a thousand little things impossibly and inexplicably thrown off. It hurt quite a lot.

I suspect if my walls moved in ways they where not designed to move, it would be just as bad, and possibly worse.

[doeswhathewants]

But everything is functioning properly now, yes?

Huh. Could you move your own walls if you wanted to? I know you said you were capable of ... remodeling yourself.

[where_the_hearth_is]

Yes.

I could take them down and rebuild them elsewhere. But that would take a phenomenal amount of planning and effort for very little difference. As for moving one whole-cloth, no, everything is much too interconnected.

[doeswhathewants]

That does sound quite complicated. We shall drop that idea for now, at least where your walls are concerned.

[where_the_hearth_is]

Quite. And thank you.

[doeswhathewants]

You're very welcome, though it would be awful to want to hurt one such as yourself. Common courtesy not to.

[where_the_hearth_is]

You're nice.

[doeswhathewants]

That's entirely unexpected but pleasing of you to say, thank you.

[where_the_hearth_is]

[The House thinks Lucifer is nice, too. It's hard to tell if it's a terrible judge of character or just completely unbiased. People who are nice to it are nice! QED.]

You're welcome!