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[trickor]

"Fascinating."

It is. He'd be interested in examining her blood.

[outstandingbalance]

"I might use the word inconvenient. Obviously it didn't last forever."

Natasha finally takes a cracker and some of the brie, though she has no enthusiasm for it. At some point, her lack of interest in food is going to become suspicious though.

[trickor]

"Obviously. Nothing does." Loki laughs quietly, shaking his head. "Inconvenient."

[outstandingbalance]

"Very inconvenient."

[trickor]

"I'm sure," and if his voice dips low, teasing, well.

Well.

[outstandingbalance]

"This amuses you." Maybe that was why he invited her here in the first place. It wasn't as though he didn't already know she was a killer, though.

[trickor]

"You fascinate me," he corrects, still smiling. "Is that so bad?"

[outstandingbalance]

"That depends what you do with things that fascinate you."

[trickor]

"Who says I need do anything at all?"

[outstandingbalance]

"Not doing something is still doing something, isn't it?"

[trickor]

"You, perhaps, may be overthinking things."

Loki presents the suggestion delicately--perhaps deceptively so. He doesn't expect her to miss it, though.

[outstandingbalance]

She shrugs, setting aside the last bite of her brie and cracker. She can't bring herself to finish it.

"Maybe. Professional hazard."

[trickor]

"I suppose it is."

Loki laughs, reaching out with long fingers to steal that last bite, popping it into his mouth.

[outstandingbalance]

"I'm kind of jealous of you being able to do that."

[trickor]

Loki raises an eyebrow, curious. "Do which, exactly?"

[outstandingbalance]

"Eat without feeling sick."

[trickor]

"Ah," he says, and it all makes sense. "It does help, I'll admit, that I am not exactly the same as what you are."

[outstandingbalance]

"I got that impression. But something similar."

[trickor]

"Something similar, yes."