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VIDEO. UN: LOKI

[ the sound of the wind storm hollows dully against the cave walls. Loki's squidge, Bacon, can half be seen crawling in the confines of his tacky green jacket and over his knee from where he sits, sometimes ducking and squeaking when a particularly large gust hits. to keep it from screaming, Loki offers his fingers absently, which the little squidge pulls on with its pudgy arms before ducking low again. ]

Hello there, it seems like we'll be waiting this out for some time considering the weather-type circumstances. While we're all rotting away, etcetera etcetera, I thought we could amuse ourselves with a game. A little bit of team bonding funtimes, so to say. [ he twists a dark nailed hand in the air, gesturing. ]

Soo—oo ... it's called Two Truths and a Lie. How do you play? Glad you asked, it's simple! Give two true statements about yourself and add a lie to the mix, shake it up then toss it out there and see if your team members know you well enough to spot the lie.

Usually this is done with copious amounts of alcohol, but we're lacking at the moment. [ pause. ] But—ah—you could always enjoy the satisfaction of being right. It's not like we're doing much else.

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[ She shakes her head to indicate that she hasn't met him before now, a curious look lighting up her expression. He seemed nice!! ] What do you mean by weird?

He went on about having met me but it could have been another me and there was something about and omni-whatever.

If you take it from me, I think he was just making stuff up.

Met another you ... [ Her brow furrows as she tries to make sense of it, but no explanation will come. Loki seemed charming to her, but she begrudgingly acknowledges how well she knows that looks can be deceiving. ] I don't understand. Why would he make up something like that? [ It never occurs to Rey to consider that it might just be because he could; for her, everything needed some kind of purpose. He'd need to get something meaningful out of it. "He's weird" feels like an insufficient answer. ]

Yeah, he knew about me, but he claimed—and this is what I could understand from all the nonsense he said—that what he knew may have been another me. Or ... something.

[In Loki's defense, he had made more sense than Keith is saying. There are some crossed wires here, along with a healthy dose of cynicism, so he's unreliable narrator central right now.]

[ But how could he have known about Keith if it wasn't true ??? This is so sketchy and strange and Rey hates it for being confusing. Good talk. ]

And there's no way you could have met him before and forgotten?

[There's a long, long moment where he thinks about Shiro.

Facts: he did just get out of a fight with the Galra before being funneled through a wormhole that may have messed with his head the same way Shiro's head is all messed up.

Other facts: he can be really stubborn.]

I mean, maybe. [A beat.] But then what's all that nonsense about other mes? Wouldn't that just be me? Am I any less of me if I lose my memories?

[Shiro sure isn't, so—that's where his logic is going.]

I think only he could answer that, unfortunately.

[ She knows how frustrating it can be to have someone you don't trust be the only one with the answers to your questions. ]

But if there's even a chance he's telling the truth, and he hasn't done anything to hurt you or lie to you, if he has nothing to gain by manipulating you ... then it might be worth listening. And what could he have to gain, here?

Information on all of our lives?

[Not that Keith is particularly secretive about his. There's not a whole lot there that needs to be kept a secret, and some people really have respected the "Voltron" thing.]

I just don't see that doing him any good, in our circumstances.

[ And on some level, she finds it a little self-aggrandizing that Loki might just target him for information about himself—maybe, though, he has a reason to feel that way. She admittedly doesn't know that much about Keith. He could be someone important. ]

[Keith considers her for a long moment.]

You're not really the suspicious type, are you?

[ Rey shrugs and shakes her head. ]

Not usually. But I am a pretty good judge of character.

[There is no point in Keith's life where he could be called a good judge of character. He's basically suspicious about most people.]

That sounds like the type of thing that's bound to get you in trouble.

Once. [ She crinkles her nose. ] But I don't blame them; they weren't bad people. I just heard what I wanted to hear.

... So, you hoped for the best and got the worst but they weren't bad?

They didn't hurt anyone; we just wanted different things is all. Not everyone who deceives to you is a bad person. Sometimes, they're just doing what they have to in order to survive.

[Keith flashes back to Rolo and Nyma, who definitely fell squarely into that. They said they wanted the paladins to succeed ... but on the other hand, they definitely sold them out.]

It's not that I haven't come across that. [Though Keith had been too indifferent to really care about Rolo and Nyma at the time.] But what if you were just a bit more suspicious of them? Don't you think it would've turned out better for you?

Nothing turns out well for people where I'm from. In the end, I wasn't any better or worse off, and I only had the chance to be better off because of their help. So ... [ She shrugs. ] I can't say really.

[Well, that got dark pretty quick. Keith can only imagine that something terrible happened there, or just ... that it is terrible.]

What happened to wherever you came from?

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