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[doeswhathewants]

[It's a sleep rumpled Loki, sitting up in bed, the NV floating in front of his face.]

One would think that by literally kicking the sandman in his sack- by 'the sandman' I mean Nightmare and by 'his sack' I mean his newly forged magic crown- that I would be granted a reprieve from terrible dreams and given only the good kind involving magic and all of the shaken milk I could drink.

Terrance, when next you speak to your father, do inform him of the wonderful Midgardian invention called a dance belt. With his penchant for tight, sparkly jumpsuits, it was rather like a hitchhiker's thumb, and a second navel.

Loki out!

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[motioned]

[Treading cautiously...]

Do you have them a lot? Nightmares, I mean.

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[doeswhathewants]

They- it is complicated. They are nightmares, but of things that have already happened, things I did in a past life. Terrible things.

[motioned]

T-Terrible things in a past life? What things?

[doeswhathewants]

Murder. Destruction. Attempted patricide, fratricide. Trying to usurp the throne of Asgard from my brother, multiple times, I am told. Ah- ending the world a few times as well.

[motioned]

[She stares for a moment.]

H-How can you end it more than once? It wouldn't be there the second time for you to end again! And why would you do any of that in the first place?

[doeswhathewants]

It is a cycle. Our world must end and I must be the one to end it. Then it is reborn anew- only, my brother Thor, he stopped the cycle back home. He is a hero.

And I do not remember why I did those things. Anger? Jealousy? I- only know I do not wish to do those things again.

[motioned]

Why did you have to be the one to end it? You never have to do anything.

Well, it's good you don't! You don't remember anything from then?

[doeswhathewants]

Mortals might not, but as gods, we did. We were bound to that fate. But as I said, my brother freed us.

No, I remember nothing at all from those days. I wish I did, it would make the insults and hate from my fellows back home more tolerable.

[motioned]

You want to remember? Wouldn't that just make you feel guilty?

[doeswhathewants]

I have a high threshold for guilt. [He says this as though it is a positive thing.]

[motioned]

...Maybe you should get that looked at.

[doeswhathewants]

Alas, there is no treatment and no cure.

[motioned]

Are you really sure about that?

[doeswhathewants]

Would I lie to you?

[motioned]

Yes.

[doeswhathewants]

So I am either lying and what I said is the truth or I am telling the truth and thus... what I said was the truth. [He's just trying to confuse her.]

[motioned]

...Or you could just be lying!

[doeswhathewants]

I repent and will feel guilt over everything.

...or am I lying now?

[motioned]

Now you're definitely lying.

[doeswhathewants]

I am highly insulted. This was my one genuine effort to repent. I shall never try again.

[motioned]

I'm not that gullible, you know!

[doeswhathewants]

Aren't you? Aren't you really?

[motioned]

I am not, not at all!

[doeswhathewants]

How do I know you are not lying?

[motioned]

Because I don't lie!