"Forget it." Loki decided to be magnanimous. One wasn't supposed to shout at obviously distraught people. At least not, if one liked them. "Hardly anyone ever comes up here anyway. Most likely nobody saw."

He put a hand on John's shoulder experimentally, ready to pull back, if John flinched at the touch.

"I know how you feel. I get terrible headaches myself sometimes. That's part of why I wanted a secret hideout to get away from people. Is there anything I could get you to help?"

He didn't have any headache pills on him. With all the medicines he was on it was too risky to take anything the doctor hadn't prescribed.