"Well," Loki said with a slightly sheepish glance up at the hole in the ceiling. "Newt here was um ... repairing the lamp. Well, the lamp that used to be up there when there still was a ceiling."

"These things happen all the time," he added when he saw Ellie's look. "You wouldn't believe how often I've seen ceilings and walls and even entire buildings collapse for the most innocent reasons."

Experience had taught him not to mention that such things had a tendency to happen when he was playing one of his little pranks. He didn't want to be blamed for Newt's clumsiness.