( @techmagiclightxnshieldedsoldier )
His neck had snapped. He had heard it, felt it. Struggled to breath as Thanos drew every last gulp of air out of his chest. Slow and painfully. He felt himself fall. Landing on the hard surface of the imploding ship, the ragged breathing of his brother as things grew darker and darker. Senses becoming numb, but he would never forget the feeling of Thor reaching for him, holding him tightly before everything was gone.
Cold. For once he felt the cold. Surrounding him, unaware of how his body was changing. Floating along with the debris and the bodies of their slain people.
The tips of his fingers turning blue, but not from the cold. A velvet sapphire that soon spread up his arms under his armour. The royal markings he had only looked at handful of times etching their way into his skin. Cocooning Loki and almost glowing a deeper shade of blue.
Loki was not Asgardian, he had told Thanos that much but what he thought was a fluke of magic before that had saved him on Svartalfheim was instead his Jotun heritage.
The resilience knitted into a Frost Giants bones; bone that were reinforced with naturally regenerating carbon fibres, preserved them in the thick of battle and made them hard to kill.
Coupled with the few remaining sparks of life that remained in his nervous system the regeneration began to take hold and repair the damage.
Soon a finger began to twitch, his head pulling back and slowly but surely his eyes opened. Once green hues now scarlet as they gazed upon a nearing ship. Reaching for it before he lost consciousness once more.
His ivory skin had returned to him, a simple glamour once he felt his magic strengthen within him but along his skin his royal markings still remained; etched in a deep blue. It kept his link to his Jotun form -- his true form -- strong and there for kept him upright. Without the ancient magic of his Jotnar heritage as a constant in his veins he would be paralyzed; useless to anyone and weak. Loki could never be weak. How else could he survive on his own?
It had been over a year since he had âdiedâ, since Thanos and the Snap. After being found by a faction of ravagers and given time to heal he sought out a myth. Something to aid in the fight against the titan. He may have wiped out half the universe but those left behind were anything but grateful and the war was far from over.
Piloting his way to Midgard, he teleported down to the surface of the planet. It took him several days to discover the Avengers compound. No one paying much heed to his appearance, there had been so much displacement in the wake of Thanos.Â
Sneaking into the compound his heart began to race. Maybe Thor wouldnât want to see him. Surely he would be angry, thinking he attempted to trick him once more. Maybe Thor would be far to disgusted by him to even consider listening to him. Maybe he was unwelcome.
Yet he had to try. His telepathic messages probably werenât received. He had never been able to make a decent connection to alert his brother about his status.
Finding the main building he kept to the shadows, nearly running into an agent at one point, peaking in all the rooms till he found who he was looking for.
âThor..â He whispered, fingers reaching out hesitantly to his sleeping form. Wanting so badly to touch him. âBrother..? Iâm here..â He mustered up enough courage to touch at a muscled shoulder; trying to rouse him from sleep. Sleep begin a generous term given how the thunderer was shaking from his nightmares.