VIDEO. UN: LOKI

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[ 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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[winces]

[ she laughs a little. ]

You are your own boss...! That's not so bad.

[secondnature]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Unless Shiro is around.

And then Shiro is boss.]

[winces]

What about you, Keith?

[ ASSUMES THEY EXCHANGED NAMES BEFORE, WHY NOT. ]

Aren't you going to play, too?

[secondnature]

[They probably would have.]

I ... wasn't really planning on it. But I came up with some for Zenyatta. I can do the same for you, if you'd like.

[winces]

If you don't mind losing to me, then I'd love to hear some!

[ gd who allowed this woman the play ]

[secondnature]

[Lose to her? Keith looks at her as if she's a little ... well. Something.]

All right ... Uhhhh ...

[He almost wishes he could just use the same ones he used for Zenyatta, but his competitive spirit tells him to try something else.]

I was the top fighter pilot in the academy I attended. [Past tense.] Before coming here, I never left my home planet. And I have a bond with a robot lion.

[winces]

Hmm.

[ she has to take a moment to think it over. he had hardly any tells there, barely any difference in inflection or tone, or even facial expression.

though, she does have to wonder— ]

What is a "robot"?

[secondnature]

... Have you met Zenyatta?

[winces]

Mr. Zenyatta? I have, yes!

[ a moment's pause, and then suddenly she sucks in a gasp, hands flying up to cover her mouth. ]

Ohmygosh — is that what he is??

[secondnature]

[Wow, Olivia. He's judging you hard and isn't bothering to hide it.]

What did you think he was? A hunk of weirdly talking metal?

[winces]

[ alksjdla wow???? don't shame her for coming from a less-technologically advanced world! ]

I — I wasn't sure...! I thought perhaps the jewelry was just showing me... an unclear image... [ she hadn't met him face-to-face okay! ]

Is that what robots are? Talking metal...?

[secondnature]

[Where is just about anyone else in the entire world who can explain this better?]

Uh, kind of? Not all of them talk. My lion doesn't. [It just makes him feel things, which would be harder to explain. He thinks, anyway.]

They are metal most of the time.

[winces]

That's so fascinating... Does everyone in your world have a lion?

[secondnature]

[He shouldn't be so proud of his lion every time he talks about his lion but he loves his lion and anyway, he's smiling, it's a big deal:]

Oh, not at all. Only the special paladins get lions. There's just five of us.

[And the old paladins who are probably the bad guys now buuuuut he's leaving that out. That's less cool.]

[winces]

Special paladins? [ it's not a foreign word to her, but in her world, paladins rode horses, not robot lions... ]

What makes you so special?

[secondnature]

We were drawn to them. [Uh, he thinks. That's what makes sense, right?]

Well, I was. The others kind of followed. [So, this is TECHNICALLY true, but mostly they just showed up from what he can tell.]

[winces]

So... does that mean you are their leader?

[secondnature]

No, I'm not really the leading type.

[Which Keith knows, at least.]

That's Shiro's job. I was just—uh, a catalyst, I guess? I'm not sure how it worked out how it did, but it did.

[winces]

[ tell that to s2!shiro ]

Do you mean... it's like fate?

[secondnature]

[Shiro stop being so encouraging.]

Uh, you know, it might be? But there's also some kind of space science involved with it.

[winces]

Space... science...?

[secondnature]

[Makes a sound that amounts to "do you really want me to make sense of this, do you?"

Only it's more like "I don't know," just mumbled thoroughly.]

[winces]

[ she cringes around a smile, suddenly sheepish. ]

Oh.

Well, um. It sounds really impressive...!

[secondnature]

Well ... it is. I'm just sorry I can't explain it better.

[He does feel bad, even if he can't read that sheepish expression for what it is. It's more that he kind of ran into a wall in explaining stuff.]

Do you have ... magic where you come from? [Bad save. But now he's curious.]

[winces]

[ she perks up at that, though. perhaps just as eager for the save. ]

I do, yes! Though it's not like most of the magic I've seen here... Many mages still use tomes for their spells, and most spells themselves are elemental...