[Lowell curses. Stupid heroes rushing into danger despite warnings, making him have to rush his own preparations! How many times over the years has he done this?
[Wait. How many times has he done it as a corrupt politician? And yet the motions come naturally to him, even more so than any plotting about how to use this information against his rivals.
[Because- because he is not Lowell Keyes, disgraced scion of a political family. He is Loki, God of Mischief. Disgraced scion of the gods, and yet he is still doing what he did before his fall from grace: do the thinking and the saving when the more heroic types fail at the former.
[He reaches for his magic, to retrieve his dagger from Lokispace, but- there's nothing. No sense of power. He curses again, then tears through the apartment, seizing anything dagger-like or otherwise useful as a weapon and throwing them all in a bag.
[He fires off a quick email response as he heads for his car:]
no subject
[Wait. How many times has he done it as a corrupt politician? And yet the motions come naturally to him, even more so than any plotting about how to use this information against his rivals.
[Because- because he is not Lowell Keyes, disgraced scion of a political family. He is Loki, God of Mischief. Disgraced scion of the gods, and yet he is still doing what he did before his fall from grace: do the thinking and the saving when the more heroic types fail at the former.
[He reaches for his magic, to retrieve his dagger from Lokispace, but- there's nothing. No sense of power. He curses again, then tears through the apartment, seizing anything dagger-like or otherwise useful as a weapon and throwing them all in a bag.
[He fires off a quick email response as he heads for his car:]
i will meet you there