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[lowkeytrickster]

Who: Loki and YOU!
Where: The library, to start.
When: Night 004
What: Loki's first night at the house - let's make it eventful, or at least interesting, because when trickster gods get bored bad things happen.
Warnings: None yet.

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[bearchested]

Joachim had a general distaste for being cold, considering it particularly uncomfortable, if he didn't get much choice about it lately. When you tend to shift form without entirely predictable reasons, you tended to burn through your wardrobe pretty fast. Add in sudden growth spurts on top of that? He was close to pulling his hair out in the frustration of not fitting into anything he owned anymore

[lowkeytrickster]

Loki glanced up from his book, though he raised his head but little. The effect was the same as if he were peering out from under his helmet--

What is this, brother, a cow's horns?

--the sense of sly calculation from shadowed places. Then it was gone, Loki putting his carefully neutral expression back in place. "I am known for slipping by unseen," he said smoothly. "Though I cannot say the same for others. You must have just missed them."

[timbre_wolf]

It was cold. The cold and monsters were more than enough reason for Amonir to wander on his own in his wolf form. He had been scrounging the Library for information about this area, and the monsters residing here. Sure, some of them seemed familiar to him, from stories if not from his own forest, but most of them were things he could not quite think of the right name for

[lowkeytrickster]

In Asgard, his great love of learning had been seen as something of an oddity - certainly Thor had never shown such a proclivity, but then again Loki was not the mountain of muscle that his brother (or not his brother, such as the case may be) was. He had thus turned his energies to something else, and indeed had cultivated a deep and abiding appreciation for books. It was something that he very much doubted would change.

Which was why, when he'd heard the deep growl and actually looked up and set his book aside to investigate, Loki was more than appalled to see a man (at least, they looked like a man, though something else as well) chewing on a book.

"What," he said, in a rather low and tense voice, "Do you think you are doing, precisely?"

[timbre_wolf]

Armand looked up, surprised at the question, then looked down at what he was doing, and realized he was chewing on one of the empty book covers.

Well, this probably did not look good.

He sat up, then stood, holding up the book cover he had been nibbling at the edge of. "I had been looking for the history of this place and if there was any information about the monsters." Guiltily, he looked aside, "as for, uh, the nibbling... the books were already torn apart, and I was frustrated and not paying attention, and it's an old habit from when I was a pup, I'm still growing out of it a bit..."

[lowkeytrickster]

No. No, it did not look very good at all, particularly not to someone who had spent more time in the libraries of Asgard than in the training rings with his brother and friends.

"Regardless of their state," Loki said in a voice surely as frosty as the dead of winter in Jotunheim, "Or your bad habits from childhood," and he plucked the cover out of Armand's hands, "It is considered poor manners to chew on books."

He set it aside for now; he would examine it later, perhaps there was more for magic to tell, if this idiot hadn't disrupted it. Whatever was in these books had been important enough for someone to want to hide, and so Loki wanted to know what it could be.

"There are more effective ways of acquiring knowledge than consumption," he said, his voice back to its normal smooth tone.