Cricket is an observer. He is gentle, and a little bit innocent, but he's clever in his way, and he notices details other people don't, and sometimes that includes the look a man gets in his eye when he thinks there is no one there to observe him, a look that says he doesn't know how he got where he is, or where he's going, or why he hurts the way he does. Loki is dangerous not because he's a god with a superiority complex, but because he's a wounded animal that isn't sure how cornered he is.

But maybe Harley ain't wrong to see hope there, either. Time will tell.

For the moment, all that matters is that they get through this. "Likewise," he tells her with a little laugh. "Reckon you're my best friend. So you...don't you forget it."