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[damn_yourself_early]

Snow has fallen in the Nexus! Fat, fluffy flakes of white, piling and drifting from ankle- to knee-depth in places. It may still be falling, in places, and in the midst of it all is a Norse godling packing snowballs and a grin. "I swear, I had nothing to do with it--but! What's your favorite thing to do with a fresh fall of snow?"

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"I am," maybe that's apparent, and maybe he's seen him before but Matt can't be too sure. "And eventually it does. But at first it's just... nice."

Matt shoves his cane around into the fluff. "Seems so. Are you going to spot me?"

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"Sure!" He pauses for a beat. "That means something other than noticing you're there, doesn't it?"

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Kids say the darnest things. "Yes." And he's going to laugh at the confusion. "I mean you're going to make sure I don't hit anything that would cause bodily harm on the way down." Like he's completely oblivious.

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Especially when the kids, themselves, are darned. "Ohh, neat! Well, there's not anything around to hit."

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You only live once. And hell, if he's going to make a fool of himself he'll do it intentionally. Matt eases down and lays flat. He's not entirely well dressed for snow. Oh well. "You've done this before, right?"

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"Well, in a sense, yes, and in another sense, no. It's complicated. Show me how it's done?"

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"Flat like so." He collapses his cane to rest close as he flaps his arms. "Arms like so." Legs too but that goes without saying. It only takes a few really good goes before he can sit up and stand without trying to crush the creation.

"It uh.... has greater impact when you can see the finished product." Now he's just got wet hair and clothes that are striving to match.

[damn_yourself_early]

Loki will give him a hand up, if he likes, and help him brush off the snow. He's helping!

"I like it. A snow angel. Or maybe a snow valkyrie?"

[fightlikehell]

It takes him a moment to figure that is a helping hand. Matt takes it. "Thanks, kid." Now he can extend his cane again.

"I could see that being a valkyrie somehow. Sure. Why not." Random but hey.

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Once Matt is up, Loki turns the hand up into a hand shake. "I'm Loki."

He doesn't know his name's been in the news.

[fightlikehell]

He sounds old enough to be named before The Incident. Still it is enough to make Matt's brow furrow. He still extends his hand. "Matt Murdock." Though he doesn't think he'll enforce being called a mister.

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"Ooh! The lawyer from New York!" Loki exclaims excitedly. "With the interesting night life! Is Kingpin really as tall as he looks in pictures?"

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"I am a lawyer from New York." Except he didn't say a he said the. "Have we met?"

The rest of what comes out of the young boys mouth floods his mind so hot that he really forgets they're out in the open in snow. What on earth has he got himself into being here?

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"Matt Murdock, the lawyer from New York, you're famous!" Heedless child though he is, Loki finally notices he seems to have discomfited Matt somewhat. Concerned, he asks, "oh, um... is it still a secret that you're Daredevil, where you're from?"

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"You're terribly sure of yourself." Discomfort is putting it mildly. He's quick with a smile and a clearing of his throat. A cold stab at the heart of him isn't from the weather.

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"I'm Loki," he points out. "I'm always sure of myself. Except when I'm not."

"You're not still telling people Daredevil's actually your identical-twin brother Mike who also practices law in Hell's Kitchen, are you? That was a stretch the first time."

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"You mentioned that." Except now Matt is paying greater attention. War criminal from the sky Loki was not a child. Maybe a son? Maybe...something?

"I have no twin that's--" Bullshit. You can't say that in front of kids.

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Loki thinks about it, tapping his chin. "Hmm. You must be from a different universe. Or the past, before you tried that excuse. Do you run around rooftops beating up criminals somehow even though you're blind? Or is that just the Matt Murdock where I'm from?"

[fightlikehell]

His poker face is somehow coming up well, belated but what can you say or do when there's a god of lies and such even in some child-like form. Jesus Christ his heart is thundering. "That's a really wild story, you know?"

How much of his story is public knowledge like that? What is the risk here with people walking around knowing who he is? Matt should have taken that into stock when he went on this venture.

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Nobody's poker face is ready for a chatty young god of liesmischief! He's like the Spanish Inquisition, but much more endearing and with fewer hot irons. "Oh, that's not even wild. How about Tony Stark pretending Iron Man was his bodyguard for years, then admitting it was him all along just a couple months after he assaulted a Latverian ambassador? That's crazy!"

[fightlikehell]

The Spanish Inquisition would have really been far more successful if it had half of the resources that Loki has in any universe. As to endearing, Matt already was fighting the bad taste in his mouth at the name. It might be a bit before there are reasons to endear. "You're right. That is crazy."

He's not off the hook, he knows it. It feels a little safer now to be in on the complete awe of ridiculousness that truth has offered. "How do you know all of these crazy things?"

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"I pay attention?" he points out, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world. "I watch the news, I read the Internet, and I've got a pretty good idea which sites are just gossip and conspiracy theories. I've got a lot to figure out and not a lot of time to do it in, so I need to learn what I can, while I can."

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"That's outside of what you should learn in school...." provided that he's a normal child. A child that's here. Chances are if Nexus didn't have paperwork there's no reason at all a young person could come here.

A young person with the name of Loki, brother of Thor who lead an army through a hole in the sky that tore up New York something fierce.

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"I'm Asgardian," he points out. "I don't exactly go to public school." And he doesn't know what his namesake in Matt's world has been up to.

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"The Loki," as a correction to himself. If he had wanted any harm to come to him, if he were any threat then this would have already happened and fast. Unless he's no threat at all. After all, he is an Asgardian. Matt is only human.