[It seems like an easy question. For most people, it might have been. But it's not that easy when there's the constant niggling doubt at the back of your mind, one which knows exactly how quick and easy the planning was because you've thought about it before, and knows that once you might actually have considered it for the right price.

His mouth goes dry at Loki's mention of some greater threat and no, he doesn't want to think about that, doesn't want to consider it.]

No reason it can't be both.

[He glances up at Loki when he speaks, lips pressed into a tight line.]

I don't think it's Thor's fault either, although his first showing wasn't exactly noble and harmless. But family is... family is complicated. Family lies.

[And he hates that so much of that sounds so familiar.]