He looks over at her, contemplating before shrugging.
"If he has the desire to stand as well, he may. I will not ask it of him. It is not a weight he is required to bear." They are not reconciled after the journey. It may be a wound that is too deep to heal, a chasm that is too wide to cross. He hasn't had the energy to give it any real thought, and he expects Loki has not either.
But it has never been Loki to smooth things over.
That thought has him looking down, closing his eyes. It had been their mother who had soothed the wounds when Loki took offense to something Thor had said or done, or when Loki literally stabbed Thor yet again. This may be it. The thing that there's no reconciliation from. Thor doesn't know if he can do this without his brother, but he has to. His mother has to be avenged.
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"If he has the desire to stand as well, he may. I will not ask it of him. It is not a weight he is required to bear." They are not reconciled after the journey. It may be a wound that is too deep to heal, a chasm that is too wide to cross. He hasn't had the energy to give it any real thought, and he expects Loki has not either.
But it has never been Loki to smooth things over.
That thought has him looking down, closing his eyes. It had been their mother who had soothed the wounds when Loki took offense to something Thor had said or done, or when Loki literally stabbed Thor yet again. This may be it. The thing that there's no reconciliation from. Thor doesn't know if he can do this without his brother, but he has to. His mother has to be avenged.