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My Self-Summary
I am just a sad sad baby boy who was never hugged as a child. I can be a little cold at first, but praise me and I warm right up!
Please feed my desperate starving need for attention and I will be whoever and whatever you want me to be 🥺🥺🥺♥️♥️♥️
Really, what is the past??? And what is the future???
With just a snap of my fingers, I can change history however I want!
Ask me how!!
I'm good at everything, but I'm especially talented with my mouth 😜
I'm great at disguises 🎭
I can be your angel 😇 or your devil 😈 I'm a very fickle beast!
Books: The Poetic Edda
Music: Cher
Movies: what else have I even been in
Food: ice cream and the blood of my enemies
Anything that so much smiles at me
Please
Please just tell me I'm a good boy
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Anything
Body Type
Anything
Smokes
My enemies
Drinks
Barrels
Drugs
Approval
Sign
Hit me baby one more time
Education
Mythic
Occupation
Nuisance
Income
None, hobo
Children
Technically me, it's complicated
Pets
1 Brother
Hobbies
Cheating, lying, destroying my own civilization
01. WINE OR BEER
.02 CLOWNS OR MIMES
.03 SHOWER OR BATH
.04 PIRATES OR NINJAS
.05 TITS OR ASS
.06 COFFEE OR TEA
.07 SPICY OR SWEET
.08 SUMMER OR WINTER
.09 LEATHER OR LACE
10. ROUGH SEX OR GENTLE SEX
WINE
.02 CLOWNS OR MIMES
CLOWNS
.03 SHOWER OR BATH
BATH
.04 PIRATES OR NINJAS
NINJAS
.05 TITS OR ASS
BOTH
.06 COFFEE OR TEA
TEA
.07 SPICY OR SWEET
SWEET
.08 SUMMER OR WINTER
WINTER
.09 LEATHER OR LACE
LEATHER
10. ROUGH SEX OR GENTLE SEX
ROUGH SEX
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[Loki has not lost all hope. He’s stubborn if nothing else and no matter how long it takes, he will continue to look for a way out. He’s stood against this and worse and he is convinced that just like he found the Time Keepers and He Who Remains, he’ll find his way out of this place.]
Are you friendly with any Clubs? I would love to know how they managed it. There must have been some strategy. Perhaps they are more organized than the other suits and managed to come together to pull something off? I doubt very much it was an easy task or that the hotel let control go without a fight. Unless it was some sort of test?
[If there is one thing Loki likes, is not understanding something or not having enough information to figure out a puzzle. He’s starting to feel like the more he investigates, the more he tries to figure out, the less he knows. Every time he comes up with one theory, it simply leads to more possibilities and it is very frustrating.]
How powerful someone is does not seem to affect what this place can accomplish. Whether that is taking or returning or whatever it is that might happen.
I have a few theories of my own, but I have not heard what you might call rumour, no.
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[Or doing other fluid-y things with context besides bleeding it.]
Well, Jun-kun's a so-called Clubs, and we're even closer than friends. We're partners! And unitmates! But he doesn't have any secret knowledge about anything Clubs-related. That's just the suit they gave him. During that whole business, he sort of tried to help Clubs take over, but that was less about Clubs and more about not liking the House or how they run things. Which I obviously can't fault him for! But anyway, that was just a lot of flipping off the breakers once people managed to flip them back on. He wasn't doing anything drastic, and neither was I.
I think there were a lot of people doing what he did, though. Working against the House in small ways, that is. We talked to some others. Though I'm not sure how much good it did - the areas Clubs took over have all reverted back to normal, from what I can tell. So if it was a test for us, I'm not sure we passed. But maybe if we push harder next time something like that happens, we can achieve different results? I'm not really sure. All this suits versus House business is just a headache!
[Oh boy, he hasn't heard the rumor... Okay, here goes.]
First of all, they say that if you go too long without bedding someone, you turn to stone. That info was passed to me by someone from my world, though he wouldn't reveal his source. I've run into a couple of other people who seemed to know what I was talking about, though.
Then when I talked to one person, he suggested that the statues decorating the resort might be petrified guests. If there's any truth to that, then that might explain what happens when some of them disappear. Or the ones who don't come back like Rinne-senpai did, anyway.
Trust me when I say I'd love to be proven wrong about that, but that's the rumor. Does that line up with your theory?
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It is a shame that he does not have some more inside information on what the Clubs seem to have accomplished. I suppose this means one of two things though, either the house is lying and all of these events have nothing to do with any of the inhabitants here, or it is only the more long staying guests that are privy to that kind of information. I wonder if it would be at all worth it to trying and get in with one of those people. I do not trust them at all, but they might have some information we need.
That is not a terrible idea. I wonder if we could have everyone work together. Or at least all the arrivals that have only been here a few months or so. Perhaps if each suit was to use their strengths against the house at once we could cause some real damage and maybe get to the root of what's happening here.
[Now this did seem concerning]
Stone? I definitely did not hear that one. Though I did hear that not conforming to what the house wants would cause some negative side effects. Something with the marks we were given to match our suits 'activating' and causing all sorts of bad things to happen, but turning to stone was not an affect I'd heard about.
It does seem to fit with the stone statues though and yes, it does fit with my theory. I have heard, and so far it seems logical enough, that this place for some reason needs us to have sex to keep the hotel going. Not participating would then be a drain on the system, a drain not caused by a stone statue.
[He really does hope they're wrong about that though.]
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Thanks!
[...]
That's part of why I want to get out so badly. I hate the thought of them tearing him away and handing him over to 50 other people. Of course there are bigger considerations than that: there's all sorts of dangerous stuff going on, plus we need to get home to our old lives. I just thought I might as well be honest about that with you, since you've done a lot to help.
By "these events" do you mean those games they have us play? I didn't know those had anything to do with us. Though I have heard people say this place takes inspiration from our home worlds. Ideas about magic and how to run things and such.
As for those longer-term guests, I guess we can try to talk to them. I've never had much luck, and I heard from a friend that they're not even human. He said he could sense that some of them are "lost souls," akin to ghosts. I do know one person who's been here a while and is a decent source, though. Her name's Jin Mingming. She's the owner of that Red Cardinal bar and restaurant, and she'll give you information if you do a quest for her! Which I'm almost done with, so I should be getting some answers soon.
[Answers about how the resort gets its energy, whether or not people turn into statues... those are the questions he intends to ask.
Speaking of info-gathering, though, it's starting to occur to him that he has a bit more information than Loki does. Alright, time to share to share it! ... even though none of it is very cheerful.]
I heard the same thing about our suits. Though Rinne-senpai said that the effects can also trigger at random sometimes.
I don't know for sure if the statues decorating the resort are petrified guests or not. I certainly hope not. The outlook doesn't seem good, though. I *do* know people turn to stone if they go a long time without bedding anyone. Rinne-senpai met someone who told him about it, and when I mentioned it, some other people seemed to know what I was talking about.
Having sex also does seem to give the resort energy, and to replenish your own energy. That was something the same friend confirmed for me. He said that the more people you sleep with, the more energy you produce. Which is why I've been wondering if that's connected to why people go missing here. Did the House get rid of them because they weren't playing the game enough? Or because they weren't providing enough energy?
But then me and Jun-kun's continued existence here would seem to throw a wrench into that idea. We're on our 5th month here and we've only collected one "card" each. Which leaves three explanations!
1. The disappearances aren't connected to "energy" or Game 52!
2. The disappearances are connected, but there other ways to get energy besides just sleeping with new people!
3. The House makes a special exception for me and Jun-kun, and they keep us around because we're just so cute!
I'll let you know when I figure out which one it is. Or *if* I figure it out.
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[That’s at least part of the reason why Loki won’t allow himself to get too close with anyone, even if there are a few people he likes more than the others.]
Yes, it is the games I was referring to. I am not certain they have anything to do with us either, but the idea came to me when it was suggested that the Clubs had some sort of say over that one event. It had not occurred to me before that that we might have some sort of control. But since no one seems to know how any of that worked, I’m thinking I was not correct about that guess.
The owner of the Red Cardinal? I do hope you find out something helpful.I guess it probably is more likely to get some truthful answers from the people here if you do something for them first. I don’t suppose you would be willing to share some of that information with me afterwards?
I do not like the idea that our suits could trigger randomly, but I would not be surprised if that were the truth either. That does seem like the kind of thing this place would enjoy doing.
I don’t suppose you have any notion of how long one would have to go without sex? I do not believe I have anything to worry about, but I also know I have not collected as many cards as some other guests. I admit part of me is tempted to test such a thing, but turning to stone hardly seems an acceptable risk.
I suppose that depends on how often you and your partner have private time, does it not? Or is there some sort of stipulation about not only how much sex, but how many different people as well?
[He hopes not. Though Loki might not be in anything resembling a committed relationship, he also doesn’t actually want to sleep with everyone he meets.]
No offence to you and yours, but I think your second option is the most likely. But yes, I would appreciate any information you come across. I will do the same if I find anything new out myself.
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Thank you for your sympathy. I assumed my worries were small potatoes compared to what a god might worry about, but I'm glad someone understands.
I'm also glad no one from home has come here to make things difficult for you, either. Unless they want to feel the wrath of God, they'd better not kidnap anyone from your world.
[Well. The wrath of a god, anyway.]
They did tell us to flip those breakers to turn the resort's energy back on. A lot of people were doing the opposite, though, including my own partner. I'm not sure how much effect that had, since all those areas like the library and the lobby went back to normal afterwards. But I want to think we could accomplish something if we all band together.
Or most of us, anyway. There are at least a couple of lowlifes running around, so I'll pass on allying myself with those people!
I *do* consider us to be allies, though. So once I've learned something from the proprietress, I'll definitely share it with you!
Rinne-senpai didn't seem to know how long it took, but our guess was "over a month." I know it shouldn't happen within just a few weeks, since I went that long without when I first came here. Unless they decide to speed up the process just to spite us.
[But uh, he probably shouldn't be giving them ideas.
...]
As for me and Jun-kun, well. We do live together, so. There aren't too many lulls.
[This is a polite way of saying they go at it all the time nowadays. Which he's a tad embarrassed to admit to. It seems crude to brag about that sort of thing!
They weren't going at it from the get-go, though. They didn't do anything until the Springtime game. So it seems to him you can go about a month without turning to stone, at least.]
I guess if there are other ways to get energy, that's one less thing to worry about so much. It'd be nice if we knew what ways those actually are, though.
Anyway, thanks a lot. I'll be sure to stay in touch, since that's what colleagues do! We're co-workers when it comes to "working" to find a way out of here.
Or you could even call us "partners in crime." Though our kidnappers are the ones who are really committing crimes, so on second thought, let's scratch that and call ourselves partners in mischief!
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[If he had been taken from another point in his life, that would’ve been much different, but as it is, he’s already accustomed to the living arrangements of the TVA and frankly, these are much nicer, even down on the 5th floor.]
Yes, perhaps that is why they have not brought anyone I am close with. There have been a few people from my world, but they have since left, hopefully back home, but they were not people I was particularly close with. Though some might say I am the only one of my close group of friends reckless enough to manage to be caught by such a place.
We do seem to have power in numbers, unless there are a whole lot more people running this place than appears. The real problem there is getting everyone to work together while keeping any major plans from those who would want to thwart us.
[Getting everyone to agree to a plan and having it work would take a real leader, something that Loki does not believe himself to be. If Mobius were here, he’d know what to do. As much as Loki is glad his friend is still back at the TVA trying to figure out the big problems, and not having to deal with the craziness of this place, he really could use his friend’s help right now.]
That is good to hear, and I am glad to have you as an ally. I will be sure to do the same for you as well. The more information we can share, the better chance we will have at figuring out something we can do.
At least a month. That is not terrible, I suppose. Though I could see them starting to punish us for perhaps not participating enough, I imagine it would take a lot for them to bring us completely out of play by turning us to stone.
[When Loki reads the part about how much Hiyori and his partner get up to, he chuckles to himself. Probably a good thing they aren’t speaking face to face. Still, it sounds nice that he has someone close like that. If Loki were elsewhere and not still trying to fix the loom, he wouldn’t mind having a partner like that himself.]
Hmm, yes. There must be other ways. I must assume that since they push the sex aspect so much, it has to be the fastest and likely gains the most in the energy they need.
No need to thank me. Everyone should be doing what they can to leave this place. I am just glad to find people like you who are just as willing to do what is needed to make that happen.
Partners in mischief. I like that.
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[That gives him pause. He thinks about Deuce and Azul, the two people he knows of who've gone missing. Then he thinks about Rinne's disappearance and reappearance, and about a certain rumor he and Senku discussed. A nasty one about what might happen to people who vanish here.]
I hope that's true for their sakes.
[He won't bring that last thing up. Nor will he share his other pessimistic thoughts. Without evidence, he'd just be creating needless worry.]
I'm glad they can't break your spirit. I won't pretend I know what it's like to be assigned a lower rank, but I've seen for myself how that sort of thing can foster resentment.
[He's talking about his old school, with its "Special Student" and "Non-Special Student" system. The one he already told Loki about.]
Honestly, one of the things that makes me leeriest is the existence of those "suit effects." Some of the effects include nightmares, hallucinations, violent urges, and other stuff like that. I feel like those would make sex harder to obtain, not easier. Which really makes me wonder if their ultimate goal is something other than everyone just sleeping around a lot. It feels almost like they want to tear our souls apart. Or else chip away at our sense of self until there's nothing left.
It doesn't sound like it'll work in your case, though. Or in my case. So they'll just have to cry about it when they don't achieve the results they want.
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[He might not have been on the friendliest of terms with the Captain and his friend, but they had been willing to hear Loki out and Loki had been hopeful that they would be able to help everyone here. That alone is enough for Loki to hope he simply went home. But when he realized they were gone with no word, that’s when he first thought things might be a little worse than he first thought. Because whatever he’d believed of Steve Rogers before, one thing Loki knows is that man wouldn’t just leave people behind. Whatever happened to him, Loki thinks he didn’t get much say in the matter.]
Are those some of your possibilities for your suit reaction? Mine are very much all emotion based. From what I have heard, if mine activates, I become clingy and desperate. I suppose that is a turn off for quite a lot of people as well, but seems much more likely I could still sleep with someone as opposed to what you have heard. Still, I believe you are correct. It seems there is much more to this than just sex.They seem to want to see what makes us tick, if you will.
I believe you are right about that. I have dealt with so much worse, it will take more than anything I’ve seen here to get to me. I am glad to hear the same of you.
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What you said lines up with what I've heard about Hearts. That one and Diamonds seem the most conducive to sex. The Spades and Clubs effects just sound awful, though.
Still, no matter which suit you have, it can't be fun to feel like you're being toyed with. But the more we know, the more we can fight the effects!
Or at least that's what I figure. I know it's not that simple, but having some knowledge is surely better than nothing.
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Yes, that seems quite concise and accurate. None of them sound like pleasant experiences. I am not a fan of feeling desperate and out of control. It is hardly attractive to find yourself clinging to someone who wants nothing to do with you. But yes, in general the Spades and Clubs do seem harder to deal with.
Knowledge is power, as they say. I wonder if it is worth trying to trigger ones suit just to see if the effects can be overcome.
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[He was experimenting just the other month to see how much crime he could commit before the House punished him.]
I think I'll pass on that myself. But I guess it depends on what suit you have and who happens to be with you. If you know someone trustworthy, who doesn't mind you clinging to them, maybe you could hole up with them for a bit?
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[More recently Loki has come to know Rinne a bit and has enjoyed his antics. Perhaps they have more in common than Loki realized.]
Yes, I suppose you are correct about that. It would take some planning at least. But I wonder if it would not be better to understand these things in a more controlled environment.
[Well, that and Loki would need to find someone he trusted enough to see him in such a vulnerable state. Not to mention would just be so annoyed with him they bailed anyway.]
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Which I know might not sound too different from me, but he's more wild and rambunctious. It's sort of like the difference between parking your flashy sports car outside so you can sneak into the building while everyone's admiring it, and crashing your car straight through the front door.
I guess his approach is harder to ignore, though. And he has shown caution at other times.
Perhaps! Your suit seems safer to experiment with than mine, at any rate. I'm not sure how to trigger them deliberately, though, apart from just not having sex for a while. But if you do decide to try it, then good luck, I guess.
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He does seem to be a bit more chaotic than you, I’ll admit. He does remind me a bit of myself when I was younger, though admittedly he is much more upfront about it that sort of thing than I ever was.
I admit I am considering it, though I would have to work out a few things first. I want to test these things, but I also don’t want to suffer overly much. If I find out anything new, I will be sure to let you know.
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[Little does he know that second comment is what you'd call "foreshadowing."]
I don't want to see you suffer, either. But thanks. In return, I'll let you know as soon as I have the results from that quest I mentioned. Hopefully we'll get to the bottom of this "energy" business soon.
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I appreciate that. Both the care for my suffering and for information I hope you find.
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Which means of course I wouldn't want you suffer. I'm an idol, so I'd much rather spread cheer!
I'll talk to you soon, OK? Good luck with your experiments and whatever else.
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I have that info I mentioned yesterday. Is now a good time to share?
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First, you should know I was only given three questions I could ask. Just to reiterate, the person who answered them was Jin Mingming, who owns the Red Cardinal. I tried to get as much information out of her as I could, but she wasn't very forthcoming about certain topics. Or she'd say she could only guess, and didn't know the answers for sure.
But anyway, for my first question, I asked if she had a sense of what the resort takes from us. She'd said something before about some guests being considered more "valuable" than others, and I was curious about why that might be, too. I asked if our intimacy is what powers the resort, but she said it's not just that. She said, "What the resort takes from us is our fate. There are those who are destined to play a greater role in life, and they offer more for the resort to sustain itself on." Then she asked me to consider the difference between an emperor who commands a powerful nation, and a servant who dies young. Apparently someone like the emperor is more valuable.
I'm not completely sure why, to be honest. When I asked her to elaborate, she said that playing the 52 game "changes our fate" by making us "have such an intimate encounter with someone we never would've met before coming here." And that's how the resort gets its energy, supposedly. I'm not sure what that has to do with emperors and servants, but that's how it is.
For my next question, I asked what happens to guests who don't provide enough energy, and if there's any truth to the rumor that the ones who don't sleep around much get turned to stone. She said "some people do indeed turn to stone." But then she said "whether it happens to every guest, I don't know" and "it didn't happen to me even after I lost my usefulness because of a deal I made." I didn't think she'd tell me about the deal, so I didn't ask. But I do know it wasn't a deal she made with J. She said he's just about as powerless as she is.
For my last question, I asked why she was still here if the resort supposedly lets everyone go home after filling their so-called deck. She claimed that she did win her game, and that she could have gone home if she wanted, but that she used her wish to save her daughter's life. Apparently you only get one wish, and if you use it to save someone else, you're just stuck here forever.
That's all for now. I offered to do the quest again if she'd let me ask three more questions, but she didn't seem interested. Any thoughts on all this?
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None of this sounds good. Especially for himself and well, Loki’s feeling a little selfish at the moment. After all, he is a god with impressive magical skills who is a large part of saving the multiverse. Does that mean they think he’s more valuable? Is he going to run into more troubles since he hasn’t been trying to hard at Game 52?
He says none of this in his response though.]
I think I have too many thoughts on this. Did she happen to mention what they deem as being more powerful? I know there was the mention of the emperor, but it could’ve just been an analogy.
And if she did mean rulers specifically like that, then why ever bring in people who are not as powerful? Are all of us powerful in someway they need?
I’m sorry, I’m sure you don’t have the answers to all of this, I am just trying to make sense of all of this.
May I ask, can I simply go speak to her at the Red Cardinal? I think perhaps I have a few questions of my own.
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The specific example she gave was "an emperor who proclaims war." So it sounds as though she meant someone whose actions cause a chain effect. Someone who changed a lot of people's fates, either for better or worse.
I don't know why they'd bring in regular people, either, though. Unless the people who seem normal here are destined to change the world someday and just haven't gotten around to it yet. That could apply to us idols, I suppose. I wouldn't put someone like us on the same level of an emperor who declares war, though.
[Hiyori has a big head. He's proud of his accomplishments thus far and fully intends to make history alongside the rest of his unit. But "making history" in their case refers to winning some idol competitions, gathering more fans, touring the world, and shining their brightest onstage—things that aren't (usually) a matter of life and death. They aren't emperors declaring war (even if Eichi Tenshouin, head of StarPro, and Ibara Saegusa, head of CosPro and producer of Eden, seem to fancy themselves as such).]
It sounds like we give the resort the energy it needs when we sleep with someone we wouldn't have met otherwise. I don't see why, since an encounter like that doesn't have to be anything life-changing. It could just be a way to relieve stress or boredom. But that's what she claimed. She said it wasn't just about sex, though, so I wonder if it's also about the connections we make here in general.
[But if any sort of fate-changing connection would suffice, then why, why do they keep being pushed to have sex? Is it just because the resort is run by perverts? He doesn't think they'll ever have that final puzzle piece, and it frustrates him. If they could just find something else to appease the House with...
No. It's not matter of appeasing them. You can't negotiate with monsters.]
Well, you don't need my permission to go there. Unless you want me to go with you. I don't mind, of course. But she'll probably make you do a quest for her before she answers your questions.
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I see. Yes. That would make sense. It does not necessarily take war to change lives, but I see why that might be an example to use. Sometimes though, the smallest of decisions or actions can make for the biggest of changes. Truly, you would be surprised.
[Maybe in some ways what Hiyori does might not seem so important to some, but Loki knows how influential entertainment can be. It can inspire in ways many don’t understand and as such, can change lives much like the emperor Hiyori is thinking of.]
That actually does make sense. It might not mean anything to some, but creating connections through sex can be quite powerful even if it is not thought of that way by those involved. Intimately connecting two people that should not have met could be, and I suppose is, quite powerful.
[At least that part of all this makes some sense to Loki. ]
Thank you, but I think I might want to try this one alone. You have helped me quite enough.
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And the entertainment industry also has its fair share of corruption, too, harboring criminals who accept bribes, launder money, forge ties with the mafia, and even have people killed. Thanks to his unitmates' connections, Hiyori's heard more about that side of the industry than he ever wanted to know. And idols can also save lives—potentially, anyway. How many artists and entertainers have been told by some fan or another at some point, "It was your art that saved me"?
Still. It doesn't change that he's no emperor. And in any case, how was having a bunch of meaningless sex supposed to change his fate? Unless they intend to gather footage and release it back home, so he can no longer have any influence on society...
In the end, it probably does no good to think about this stuff. He gets a headache when he tries. Loki at least seems to have gotten something out of it, and that's good enough for him.]
I'm glad to hear that, anyway.
Good luck getting something new out of her. If you do find out something, be sure to let me know, alright?
I'll return the favor, of course. That's what comrades do!
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