Loki continued to walk, mostly because he wasn’t really dressed for running but slightly because hanging back gave him an excuse to watch Valkyrie move, at least until he caught up again. It had to be said, though: even a pocket-slice of Midgard was pretty. Nothing to Asgard, of course, but in this case second-place wasn’t really a loser placement.

“Oh?” ‘Frequently’ was an improvement over ‘inevitably’, expressing some hope that things wouldn’t go horribly wrong. “Did you have any particular chance in mind?”