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Carver laughed “Nothing that you haven’t attempted yourself in the past, Loki I am but an amateur when it comes to trickery This circle is merely our insurance policy, that you will listen and consider our plea”

Loki poked a finger at the flaave a chuckle hi spell, isn’t it? You think that you can keep me locked here forever?”

Odin looked between the two, his face grilimmer of admiration in his eyes when he focused on Carver, like he knew so the rest of us didn’t

“Let me explain in brief, Loki,” Carver said “I a This end and nificance to its people I can draw marvelous amounts of power fro with this?”

Loki folded his ar up, od within aeven Carver would normally be capable of, but circuantic arcane battery

“Correct,” Carver said, as if Loki had given an answer that none of us had heard “I can do this all day All week All month, and all year Forever, if that is what it takes, until you agree to help us”

Odin made a noise from somewhere within his beard that sounded like a stifled chuckle Loki bared his teeth,a low snarl

“Then speak what you wish,” he growled “Tell et this over with”

“I won’tto the sky “Those thirteen stars – a servant of the Old Ones has co horrible is co, and we need your assistance”

Loki laughed, his eyes burning sinister in the light of Carver’s flaod will stoop to help you, lich, and in a battle that could very well spell my doom, then – ”

“Laevateinn”

Loki’s voice stopped strea from his throat His lips re His expression didn’t change, but his eyes seemed to burn with so much more fury as they looked into Carver’s face

“Laevateinn,” Carver repeated

“You cannot ask that of me,” Loki hissed “Not my blade”

I knew exactly what they were talking about, and why Loki was so reluctant to turn it over Laevateinn was his sword It was ancient, and powerful, and as personal to hinir was sacred to Odin himself Not just an armament, but an emblem, a symbol of who and what Loki stood for It was his brand, and knowing howfor Laevateinn was like slapping hiood measure