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[mjolnir_retriever]

[From here.]

The lawn outside Milliways is not much more private than the main bar, though it's more open and significantly less populated. But it's a more congenial place for a serious talk, and there are private places. You've just got to travel a ways to get to them.

Luckily, that's something Mjölnir is good for!

Loki wanted to come on a quick flight over to the mountains, right? It's fine, Thor's flown plenty of humans this way. (No, he doesn't snatch Loki up without warning or anything. But Loki knows perfectly well what the come on, grab hold, we're going thataway body language is like, and also what Thor looks like when he doesn't plan to take no for an answer.)

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[mjolnir_retriever]

Thor breathes out, a rueful puff of a sigh.

We'll find it -- but can they? Sometimes it's so hard to remember that this isn't fully Loki, and sometimes it's impossible to forget. Right now, it's hard to remember.

"You and me, brother. We'll manage something."

And that's true no matter what: if Odin's sons are together, what can stand against their combined might?

He holds out an arm, letting Mjölnir drop to its strap from his other hand, ready to twirl up momentum. "Come."

[never_promised]

Right now the combined might of Odin's sons is just Thor plus a deadweight--a damp and coughing deadweight. But that's not going to stop them!

The flight back down sets off more coughing, and when they get inside, Loki's table of tissues and science looks to him more like a mountain to climb than a fortress of security. Ugh. None of the parts seem likely to come together into anything, and he's losing track of what some of them were for in the first place. But damn it all he's going to make it work.

Something. Make something work.