Loki sighed. He'd hoped to make her laugh at him, yes, but it still hurt. She was humouring him like a child.

"No, Odin wouldn't have done the same," he admitted. "Odin would have been cool and sovereign and have had his spear on hand. He definitely wouldn't have freaked out and gone all animal on that Mictain guy."

Odin would have won and assured that Mictain never came close to Uriel again. That's what Odin would have done. He was a pathetic replacement. Just the abandoned, sick little brother.