He's pleased when the stranger takes the offered tea and it all seems utterly absurd to him in that moment. Here they are, at the end of time and surrounded by the countless branches of Yggdrasil, sharing a drink. The God of Stories and a sorcerer who found his way to him. It's nice that things can still surprise him.
"Don't sound so disappointed. You're fortunate it's only the Codex and that I never sought out the power. Did you really want the Loki you knew to have access to the Treatise?" he asks with a fleeting wry smile on his lips, "I doubt it." If Loki of Asgard had that power, things might not have gone the way the sorcerer would have liked if he'd been so inclined. He'd wanted to rule, not to destroy, so the book had remained as a relic on his shelf instead.
Loki frowns at the revelation that someone is using the power of the book to snuff out whole stars. It's a small apocalypse in comparison to, say, the whole of every timeline being snuffed out, but it doesn't sit well with him that someone has that power in a timeline he very much considers to be his even if he split from it and even if the last decade on it in 'his' life does not belong to him. This happening on a timeline where his memories reside--where his brother resides--annoys him. He knows that 'Loki' made his peace with Thor and even if he only has Morbius' images of it, he finds that a threat to the world his brother is on bothers him more than he would like.
"Maybe not," Loki says before taking a sip of his tea, "The Treatise has a companion. The Codex speaks of it--in the footnotes. Small print. Easy to miss. It's obscenely tiny print, honestly. You need the Codex to reach it but if you had the power that the second book contains, you might be able to find whoever is doing this and stop him. Most certainly it would at least help you locate the current owner of the Treatise. Magic to seek out its other half." It's a long shot, Loki assumes, but it's better than nothing.
Except there's still the little problem of the Codex being on Asgard, cloaked in Loki's wards.
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"Don't sound so disappointed. You're fortunate it's only the Codex and that I never sought out the power. Did you really want the Loki you knew to have access to the Treatise?" he asks with a fleeting wry smile on his lips, "I doubt it." If Loki of Asgard had that power, things might not have gone the way the sorcerer would have liked if he'd been so inclined. He'd wanted to rule, not to destroy, so the book had remained as a relic on his shelf instead.
Loki frowns at the revelation that someone is using the power of the book to snuff out whole stars. It's a small apocalypse in comparison to, say, the whole of every timeline being snuffed out, but it doesn't sit well with him that someone has that power in a timeline he very much considers to be his even if he split from it and even if the last decade on it in 'his' life does not belong to him. This happening on a timeline where his memories reside--where his brother resides--annoys him. He knows that 'Loki' made his peace with Thor and even if he only has Morbius' images of it, he finds that a threat to the world his brother is on bothers him more than he would like.
"Maybe not," Loki says before taking a sip of his tea, "The Treatise has a companion. The Codex speaks of it--in the footnotes. Small print. Easy to miss. It's obscenely tiny print, honestly. You need the Codex to reach it but if you had the power that the second book contains, you might be able to find whoever is doing this and stop him. Most certainly it would at least help you locate the current owner of the Treatise. Magic to seek out its other half." It's a long shot, Loki assumes, but it's better than nothing.
Except there's still the little problem of the Codex being on Asgard, cloaked in Loki's wards.