Loki notices the chin lifting, at the very least, but he doesn't know what it means, or that it is a source of ...concern, for lack of a better word, to Diabhall.

People hold themselves differently around him all the time. Nothing new, exactly.

"So your Patron was primarily interested in your research?" Curioser and curiouser. Loki imagines that would be an interesting sort of deal, for anything that would age slower than the one being patronized. "What sort of being was your Patron?"