A frost giant? [You can hear his eyebrows raise.] There's something both of our worlds have in common.

The consequences of trying to overthrow a god would be that, wouldn't it? Underlining mortality? [For something so grim, there's a small laugh as he says it.]

Around? [hiding. But then he considers that Loki is a friend and he shouldn't feel the necessity to hide from him.] The lack of staff in the mage tower dining all means that it's much less, um, busy. Quiet, for tea and books. [He has set up sort of a wall of books open to avoid the eyes of anyone who happens to come in while he's there. Sort of hiding.]