"You know, if there's any employer in the universe that's forgiving of lateness, it's probably the Nexus," Fiona quipped, for once in her life not fully focused on keeping her job. Nothing particularly menacing had happened to them yet, but she still got the impression that keeping her life was a higher priority, here.

A priority which Loki was apparently on board with despite his magical powers of unknown enormity, considering the way he hustled her off the street the moment other figures appeared from the dim. Fiona nodded silently in response to his suggestion, but there wasn't much to choose from in the alley they'd moved into. A door stood near the back of the slender space, but Fiona couldn't get it to budge, perhaps more because of its solid metal weight than some cosmic force barring her entry.