It was hard for Fiona to tell whether Loki was bitter about his brother's destructive streak. Projecting her own situation onto his was natural, and she had to wonder whether his brother was more like her own—Messy but ultimately well-meaning—or like Frank, who'd been leaving a wake of chaos for Fiona to deal with since she could walk.

"You end up having to clean up after him a lot?" she asked, genuinely curious if only because Loki looked and sounded like he'd never had to clean up anything in his entire life.