Loki clenched his hand, blood squeezing between his fingers. "Then she is as big a fool as her only son," he hissed. It hurt, because almost, almost he'd been able to think of her that way again, but he couldn't with Thor standing there. He was not Thor Odinson's brother. Never.

He smiled nastily. "And a good thing for that lady too. Better that than to have one son throw the other into the maw of a black hole."