[ What must it be like, to be a god of lies? Thor feels nauseous and uncomfortable. Is this how Loki always feels? No wonder he looks thin and sickly all the time. Even more so when he pales like that, and the guilt churns in Thor like an ocean under a storm. Can they just... not talk about this anymore? This is almost worse than the whole sex with gross people thing. ]

Yes, brother. Really. We're both here to save Earth. And Asgard.

[ Asgard. Shit, right. That was belated. He presses on. ]

...By having wild, ridiculous amounts of sex while scientists watch. We'll save the multiverse by fucking around here, and whatever differences we have still between us can be resolved once we've returned to Earth again. Together, as you promised.

[ He looks long at Loki again at that, questioning, seeing if Loki's resolved now that he thinks the cube is on Earth, with SHIELD, and the Avengers, and all of Loki's favorite organizations and peoples who in this universe of lies now also likely believe Loki was going to use the stone to try conquering New York again.

This string of lies is the actual worst, and if it weren't even worse than that to tell Loki the truth, Thor would give it all up in an instant. Why does his own universe have to suck so much? ]