If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks...

[coldsong]

It's customary to have a Wake after the subject thereof dies. Even Loki knows that. But this is a special occasion. Ego-death is coming to his alternate, and the idea of letting him go off to perish alone, uncertain he will even be mourned, is too dark a proposition even for a flawed and callous person to contemplate.

That, and this Loki has been in a melancholy mood since speaking to the spirit of Frigga. He anticipates a dark choice of his own, sooner or later, and where the fates will send him after that, he can't know. Maybe oblivion, although even at that rate there may be worse places.

What's important right now is that no one dies unremembered. And honestly, any excuse for mischief a party. The first text rolls out to Harley, an innocent enough invitation to join them for milkshakes. Cricket is next, because it occurs to him that Cricket has plenty of liquor, which is good for a reckless celebration.

Things snowball from there.

As long as they don't destroy too much property, they'll call the night a success.

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[pirateangelbaby]

If this Loki thinks that Thor would not miss him too, he's gravely mistaken. But, of course, he has no talent for mind magic, and knows not where his brother's thoughts have gone, assuming them to be fear for his double, sadness and grief at the loss he seems to think is inevitable.

Thor knows what it's like to lose family and not get to say his goodbyes. He'd hastened to say them on Svartelfheim, and no matter how Loki mocked his words with theater after, he doesn't regret saying any of it. He would have Loki - any Loki - know that he is loved, before the end. Whether he believes it or not.

He clumsily pats at Loki's arm in thanks, and stumbles his way out of the pile of slumbering revelers in search of the guest of honor.

[coldsong]

Was it mockery, or merely a reminder? They should talk about that more deeply some time, when they're not so drunk. Loki has a tendency to make light of the things that cut him the most deeply, with only a few exceptions. Maybe, with Thor himself absent by necessity, he just wanted that reminder for himself, to pick at old wounds at the same time as they attempted to heal.

Loki is complex and contrary and his own worst enemy.

But he will not be his alternate's worst enemy; on that he is already decided, and he looks up as Thor leaves to find him, with a small, soft smile of approval. He has time for reconciliation. The other Loki may not.