Yeah, it has. I told you — I calmed him down before. He was... in the middle of destroying the university lab [ okay he already hates telling this story but if he has to do it to convince Loki, he will ] but when I talked to him, he pulled himself out of it.

If there's any chance to get through to him without anyone having to fight him... shouldn't we try that? Isn't that more important? And I told you, I'm fine. I got my blood tested like a month ago, it was clean. So even if I'm infected, it's impossible for the infection to have passed week four, I've still got like three weeks before full insanity.

[ surely there is some beautiful irony in talking about insanity to yet another god of mischief, but he'll just. pass over that now. ]

I'm not going to the hospital, okay? Stop trying to get me to go. I appreciate the weirdly considerate sentiment, honestly... but I'm fine.