@thor.odinson

[ofmyth]

[1 August 0500]



what the hel happened to the rest of july?

and when did it get so blazing hot?

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[retravel]

[ weeps. ]

Well, you would have been a target regardless, so outside interference has merit as a theory.

[ofmyth]

merit?
what else do you suggest has happened

[retravel]

Spacetime issues. We could be blinking in and out of existence here, like canaries in a coal mine.

[ they done fucked multiple timelines, y'all. ]

Though we've been under compliance drugs before. Perhaps you walked out of the flat yourself, under orders. That would explain the lack of struggle/indications of forced-entry.

[ofmyth]

i will see if the building has security footage. if so we can at least discover the manner of my return

[retravel]

Good call. Keep us updated on that.

If you and Stark were both affected, that could make for a pattern in due time.

[ another one bites the dust, etc. ]

[ofmyth]

How long was Stark affected?

[retravel]

You'd have to ask him, I'm afraid.

[ he just creeped on rey's reply 👀 ]

[ofmyth]

i'll do so, thank you

what experience do you have with spacetime issues like this? it is not a common thing for humans to be well-versed in the technicalities of

[retravel]

[ surprisingly enough, that's the first time someone has asked for specifics. with over a month here already, fitz deems it pointless to dodge the question. ]

My girlfriend missed our first date because a Kree monolith transported her to a far-flung planet.
Took me six months to find a way to reopen the portal and rescue her. Made for a steep learning curve.
She and my friends were also transported seventy years into my future, but solving that's been tabled, given our current spacetime displacement.

[ofmyth]

[ man, that's almost nostalgic. a little time travel? that would be valhalla compared to this ]

ah, the adventures SHIELD gets up to these days
i hope we return that you may continue to aid your friends

[retravel]

[ ah, mentioning SHIELD on a public network...

whatever, he's probably already sacked, at this point. tends to happen when you drop a building on the acting head of the organisation. ]

Thank you, Thor.
Until then, hopefully we can aid each other.

[ it's said with the optimism of someone else — his partner — even if he doesn't believe it himself. ]

@loki.odinson / private

[selfimage]

I think it may have hit the arrow closer than you think.

/ private forever

[retravel]

Former or latter?

[ wouldn't the latter be nice... something simple like compulsion and amnesia... a bloody holiday. ]

[selfimage]

[ lots of things would be nice, Leonard. ]

Former.
Link: Thread

[ don't be creepy and stalk everything on Thor's post, Loki. ]

[retravel]

Noted.
And there's the case of Stark.

[ he is literally on the phone with bobbi right now, discussing what the twelve missing and two flickering means, so, mood.]

Could be temporal paradoxes, resolving themselves as individuals prevent their capture, but I doubt it. Timey wimey optimism, that is.

[ time! is! fixed! and yet. ]

We aren't fixed at this point in spacetime.

[selfimage]

You may make what you wish of it in terms of mortal science, yet the consequence may be more obvious. It's like a clever riddle:

Allowing a flow inward and outward. [ empathy. ]
Then that which is close to us.
Then ourselves.

Should I follow that up with 'what am I?'

[retravel]

Must you, Loki.

[ must you be like this. don’t throw moRTAL SCIENCE at him and then drop RIDDLES. ]

Emotions, sentimental objects, us.
The blue glow. The ache in our chests. What’s within us?

[selfimage]

I'm a gateway!

[ is that a punchline. ]

[retravel]

Gateway, portal, rift.
No one ever remembers to close the damn door.

[ why is it always this!! open doors, swinging this way and that. ]

[selfimage]

Maybe it's just a jar.

[ he hates himself a little for that joke, and it'd be far more scathing if Fitz heard him say it. ]

[retravel]

You're the worst.

[retravel]

But I've been thinking the same thing.

[ a portal, like the Kree monolith, opening and closing at intervals unknown to them, seemingly at random. ]

When and why does it open wide enough for things to squeak through?

[selfimage]

More pressing:
Why set these portals loose among the citizens of this realm equipped with the proper resources to adapt?
I refuse to believe that our outburst of contracted aggression was an accident.

We are being used, Leopold.

[retravel]

Lest we forget, Morningstar thought we were a weapons shipment when they haphazardly intercepted our transport.

[ he'd thought they were, but in a limited, HYDRA-esque sense: Weaponized Inhumans. Not to this scale, being lured out by monsters and enemy agents. ]

[selfimage]

[ he had thought too, at first. but why go through the hassle of giving weapons a means of identity? it didn't make sense. ]

I do wonder where they got that tip.