He doesn't, of course, and by all rights Loki should take heavy offense at the implication that he couldn't learn to handle whatever workload Tony might think to provide him here, but--
But he nearly laughs at the insult, the overdramatics, the assumptions this man thinks he has enough knowledge to make about the state of his and Thor's relationship, and the suggestion of it lingers around the corners of his mouth even when something else entirely sharpens in his eyes the longer Tony speaks.
"A puzzle and a problem are too very different things, you realize." Normally Loki enjoys forcing others to look up at him. There's a vague sense of satisfaction in it, in the imbalance it usually never fails to strike, in the perception of power it so often cedes to whoever cranes above another. In how unsettling it can be the longer it's insisted upon. Had Tony been near anyone else, he would have stayed standing upon principle but here...he would be a fool not to recognize that the man in front of him isn't so easy to intimidate.
So he takes his seat, fluidly and as if he has all the time in the world to entertain whatever proposition is about to be laid before him for his consideration, raising his glass once more to his lips as he says, "but all I hear from either is how much my efforts to aid you would benefit everyone but myself."
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He doesn't, of course, and by all rights Loki should take heavy offense at the implication that he couldn't learn to handle whatever workload Tony might think to provide him here, but--
But he nearly laughs at the insult, the overdramatics, the assumptions this man thinks he has enough knowledge to make about the state of his and Thor's relationship, and the suggestion of it lingers around the corners of his mouth even when something else entirely sharpens in his eyes the longer Tony speaks.
"A puzzle and a problem are too very different things, you realize." Normally Loki enjoys forcing others to look up at him. There's a vague sense of satisfaction in it, in the imbalance it usually never fails to strike, in the perception of power it so often cedes to whoever cranes above another. In how unsettling it can be the longer it's insisted upon. Had Tony been near anyone else, he would have stayed standing upon principle but here...he would be a fool not to recognize that the man in front of him isn't so easy to intimidate.
So he takes his seat, fluidly and as if he has all the time in the world to entertain whatever proposition is about to be laid before him for his consideration, raising his glass once more to his lips as he says, "but all I hear from either is how much my efforts to aid you would benefit everyone but myself."