"I do try." He says it with a careless shrug and a not so careless smile. Neither death nor incarceration would be an option if her friends would simply let him do his work - they bring it upon themselves every time they interfere.

Giving Darcy a withering look over his forkful of crostini - manners, child, you could do well to mind them - Loki replies, "I could always do with an extra hand. Good help is so very hard to find."