I may have had to relocate the Tesseract slightly, in order for the forces it contained to be made safe.
I may have also neglected to ask nicely before I did so.
[He admits this with just a twinge of amusement in his voice. He's fine with her thinking he's a thief, after all, her ledger is dripping red, and admitting a small crime may let the large one slip past unseen.]
He was fighting the people of another world. They had taken me hostage as a child, and I had slipped from their grasp some time earlier. It's why I first passed through the gateway to your world. I sought... a new horizon, far from them.
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I may have also neglected to ask nicely before I did so.
[He admits this with just a twinge of amusement in his voice. He's fine with her thinking he's a thief, after all, her ledger is dripping red, and admitting a small crime may let the large one slip past unseen.]
He was fighting the people of another world. They had taken me hostage as a child, and I had slipped from their grasp some time earlier. It's why I first passed through the gateway to your world. I sought... a new horizon, far from them.