"I'd like you to keep an eye on someone- something? The semantics are complicated." And one of many, many issues Tony has with the entire ordeal. Again, he offers the glass of wine but if Loki snubs him a second time? Fuck it, he's had a night, one glass won't kill him. But being a proper host or negotiator means a little bending, a little smiling through grit teeth, wheeling and dealing with people you'd rather put on the other side of the planet.

Even if Loki hasn't done anything to cause him migraines.

Yet.

The potential's always there for it to change. "We've got a fun case of identical twins walking around the village. One's harmless, one wants the other dead for whatever reason and will use excessive and might I say sadistic amounts of force to make it happen. I'm talking tear out someone's heart and walk away levels."

He doesn't linger too much on that memory, he has no reason to, even if he still can't shake the sensation of chemically slick blue blood all over his hands. "They're androids and- what do you know about Artificial Intelligence? Was that ever a thing on Asgard or did you skip that?"