"Rest is the best thing for you. My mother used to grow some herbs that might have more of an impact than these, but they went extinct, so far as I know, when Asgard was destroyed. That's the problem with the end of a world. It's not just civilization being crushed; that wouldn't be so much of a loss, but the animals and plants don't deserve it."

That's only partly tongue in cheek. No surprise that Loki thinks more kindly of animals than he does of most people. And yet, here he is.

He smiles a little, not mocking, but mild and friendly. "I've nothing more pressing to attend to. As long as Thor knows I've not vanished into the multiverse, I can stay a while. Wong isn't going to punch me if he comes home and finds me here, I hope?"