He'll be more "dayum" shortly.ladyofthefensJuly 6 2012, 07:59:51 UTC
Which registers first, the sound of the strike echoing back from the walls or the pain of the solid hit across his face? It's no dainty slap, Frigga is far from the type, and her hand is still stinging when she lowers it. "You will not speak of your family in this way," she says, no longer loud but now quiet and steady, dangerously low. Her chin is held high even as the tear finally spills down her cheek.
"I raised you to be a wise, thoughtful man. I did not raise you to slay an entire race of beings! Mercy, Loki, I tried to teach you mercy as well as wisdom, but it seems my teachings were wasted."
"I cannot claim to know the All-father's mind," she continues in the same low, hard voice, "but there was a throne wanting a king from the moment you slew Laufey, a throne to which you had a blood-right. Do you think it so farfetched that Odin may have planned to hand you a kingdom of your own? Would you have accepted it or would you have tossed it back in his face because it was inferior to your brother's? Everything you have become is due to this jealousy. Thor is not your enemy, Loki. You were ever his favorite. He prized you above all others, and you never saw it."
She hasn't flinched or looked away for an instant during the tirade and now she folds her hands in front of her, looking tired for the first time. "And now you will claim my words are lies, you'll refuse to hear them and throw the sharpened barbs back at me. Please do so; you cannot do me more harm with your words than I have done to myself with my guilt."
"I raised you to be a wise, thoughtful man. I did not raise you to slay an entire race of beings! Mercy, Loki, I tried to teach you mercy as well as wisdom, but it seems my teachings were wasted."
"I cannot claim to know the All-father's mind," she continues in the same low, hard voice, "but there was a throne wanting a king from the moment you slew Laufey, a throne to which you had a blood-right. Do you think it so farfetched that Odin may have planned to hand you a kingdom of your own? Would you have accepted it or would you have tossed it back in his face because it was inferior to your brother's? Everything you have become is due to this jealousy. Thor is not your enemy, Loki. You were ever his favorite. He prized you above all others, and you never saw it."
She hasn't flinched or looked away for an instant during the tirade and now she folds her hands in front of her, looking tired for the first time. "And now you will claim my words are lies, you'll refuse to hear them and throw the sharpened barbs back at me. Please do so; you cannot do me more harm with your words than I have done to myself with my guilt."
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