Loki's explanation of what happened to him... doesn't make sense.
Mostly because he used the words friends. Loki had friends? Where? How? The Loki that Stephen knows of was a cunning, backstabbing creature who probably couldn't keep a friend to save his life. Somehow, somewhere inbetween that Loki and this one, he'd changed enough that he found some friends. Fascinating.
(Not that Stephen can exactly point fingers. He's had very few friends over his life, mostly because he couldn't be bothered with them. Now that he's a little less full of himself, he still has maybe two friends. Plus a teenager that keeps texting him memes.)
"Should I ask what was threatening the timelines, or is that too much of a spoiler?" he asks, coming to a stop alongside Loki. He casts one glance back at the branches, still marveling at the sight. "Because either something was intrinsically unstable about the matter of the timelines and it needed someone to hold them together, or someone was making them unstable, in which case, I should probably be on alert."
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Mostly because he used the words friends. Loki had friends? Where? How? The Loki that Stephen knows of was a cunning, backstabbing creature who probably couldn't keep a friend to save his life. Somehow, somewhere inbetween that Loki and this one, he'd changed enough that he found some friends. Fascinating.
(Not that Stephen can exactly point fingers. He's had very few friends over his life, mostly because he couldn't be bothered with them. Now that he's a little less full of himself, he still has maybe two friends. Plus a teenager that keeps texting him memes.)
"Should I ask what was threatening the timelines, or is that too much of a spoiler?" he asks, coming to a stop alongside Loki. He casts one glance back at the branches, still marveling at the sight. "Because either something was intrinsically unstable about the matter of the timelines and it needed someone to hold them together, or someone was making them unstable, in which case, I should probably be on alert."