"I thought I wasn't a serious man. Why would I be serious now?" Loki said, and despite her ire, there was a sincerity in her voice that seemed designed purely to turn his insides into jelly.

"But yes. Or, at the very least, I was looking forward to exploring this place. With you, preferably."

Another figure charged at them, and he managed a burst of energy strong enough to knock them on their arse.

"Sneer all you like, Sylvie. I can't imagine why you're always so surprised when I want to spend time with you." Though, of course, he could imagine why, and perhaps pretending otherwise was a cruelty in of itself.