"My heart bleeds for you," he fires back. "How do you think I feel? I'm related to so many! But if you do seek to avoid drama, I would recommend not rolling your eyes at people. Offense fully taken, by the way, but I'll decide what to do with it another time."

And probably he'll decide on 'nothing' because he has bigger projects to worry about. He's not even that annoyed.

"I believe the issue has resolved now, where they are concerned," he says. "Or will be resolved shortly. I'm not clear on how their quarrel began; Thor claims to be blameless."

Loki doesn't believe that for a moment, of course. "In any case, organic matter was rotting around him, food included, and he's been living off junk food for a bit. It was heartbreaking to see him so reduced." That doesn't even sound sincere.

"But as far as who told me about you? You'll have to figure out on your own. Snitches get stitches."