Private to the Admiral THEN PUBLIC HEY JERKS HE NEEDS YOUR ATTENTION.

[lacksconviction]

[This is a tentative post, and Loki's voice has the faltering quality of a man who suspects he may be talking to himself:]

Admiral? There are questions I have which I do not believe anyone else here is qualified to answer.

First among which may be the most futile of them:

Are you listening?

[EDITED IN LATER: Public]

[Hey Barge, Loki is just going to make this conversation with the Admiral, fully public.]

I must indeed be becoming tiresome with my questioning today, because I have one more. This one for the wardens, for those of you serving this man willingly:

Why?

Yes, I have asked before, and yes I've heard answers. For your deal, for your inmate, for the sake of doing some good in the universe, but I wonder how you justify it to yourselves. To serve an entity who not only is little known, but actively refuses to surrender his intentions, the masters which he serves, or even the reward which he will reap for his work in controlling all of us.

I have been told by many among you that he is not a God, but what other beings deal in secrecy and souls?

Why are you content with this?

Prey tell me, that I might lay to rest my fears about what more this place is, than just a prison.

Comments

Private

[lacksconviction]

If a man goes picking through your mind like a hawk, rearranging the pieces as he sees fit with neither explanation or apology, does he cease to be your enemy because he thought it a game?

Private

[persuadeyou]

[She's keeping as neutral as can be, but she has to wonder if that's the kind of brainwashing he used on Clint.]

Has he hurt you? Have you been harmed since you came here?

Private

[lacksconviction]

[But Natasha! It was just a prank! Surely it was fine.]

Creating new questions does not unmake those asked of you. If your best defense is to whimper that someone who has been here for less than a month has suffered no ailment, then look to those who've been here years.

The truth is, you've no answer to my questions, and that is why you've offered none. Your decision to remain here is selfish and short sighted. At least be honest with yourself about it.

Private

[persuadeyou]

[She is going to keep ignoring those hot words, okay. :c] Sorry, I wasn't clear: I know staying here is selfish. I wasn't trying to be dishonest. [Ahahahah. :c]

Sometimes you have to work with your enemy to get what you want. It isn't a new tactic. And I intend to see it pay off.

Private

[lacksconviction]

You aren't working with him. You're serving him blindly. Still, I won't tell you that your greed is a crime, I just wondered if you had considered the consequences of the choice you have made here.

Private

[persuadeyou]

I have. But I doubt that puts you at ease.