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Well, that was rather unexpected.

My apologies for my sudden absence, especially so close on the heels of the last. [An uncomfortable clearing of his throat.] So tell me, dear neighbors: What excitements have I gone and missed?

[Something off-camera catches his eye and he perks up.]

Other than a new assignment, apparently!

[He picks up the file, and upon reading a couple lines looks positively tickled.]

Loki Laufeyson. It appears we need to have a little chat soon, and you have my deepest apologies for my initial absence. We shall have to begin in earnest to rectify this. In the meantime, however!

Admiral, please see to it that a fully updated copy of my file be delivered to Monsieur Laufeyson as soon as possible.

As for everyone else, my dearest friends and loves, I'll be out and about soon to greet you in person. I feel we must all have a visit lest I pop out of existence again and miss the opportunity.

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Did you go anywhere nice?

Nowhere of note, alas.

A pity then. I was hoping for a story.

My stories are a touch too lurid for open channels, most will say.

On a prison ship where even small children are over the age of consent? [Sorry, Czeslaw, Ester has sewn doubt.]

[That ALMOST gets him out of his current guise, out of sheer curiosity, but he waves it off at least initially.] Practically my first ever writings.

A damned shame.

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[By contrast, Loki is less than gleeful. He's still a bitter(hah) about his last Warden and just Wardens in general. He also doesn't believe a file will show up until it does. He's not sure what to make of him. He settles on suspicion and a pinch of anger. He has yet to embrace 'Laufeyson' as his name so decides to focus on that.]

Do not call me that. I am a Prince of Asgard.

[A cordial bow.]

My apologies, Highness. I'll stick to English forms of address, if that is acceptable. I have only begun reading and merely sought to address you as you were named by the file.

To introduce myself: I am the Marquis de Sade of Lacoste. You have been here for a time already, oui?

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[He's used to not getting apologized to or respect on things like that and it throws him off. ]

...Yes. Evidently, more than once.

Yes, there was a Loki with us for some years, but he was in no way shape or form the same man that you are. Graduated, served as a Warden through one or two Inmates, and then moved on. There have also been other Lokis who were very much the same man that you are. It is all rather confusing, but without having their files I could not say whether they were you, and that you have forgotten, or if they were you, only from different planes of existence, alternate timelines, et cetera.

This place has a way of keeping one on their toes.

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Yes, it does.

[The wheels are turning. He's suspicious.]

Why did you send me your file?

Disclosure, Highness. I find it only fair that you know just as much about me as I do about you.

[He holds up Loki's file.]

The information contained herein does not grant me power over you unless you allow it to. It is the same for me. Having spent two years on this ship an Inmate before I ever became a Warden I consider it a fairness that ought to be required of every man and woman that works here.

Once the Admiral gives you the file you may do with it as you wish. If he takes too long, let me know, as I keep my own copy and would be glad to lend it.

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[And indeed, the file in question appears in Loki's cabin; there is also a small plate of tea cookies sitting on top of it.]

Welcome back!

Thank you, my dear.

My fourth anniversary.

I'd have been the oldest person here if you hadn't come back. Unless there's someone I'm forgetting.

And we just couldn't have that, could we?

I guess not.

So. At long last, yeh've awoken. And here I hoped t'be rid of you at last.

[The voice is familiar. The face, less so]

[And the voice is too familiar for him not to put two and two together.]

Captain Jones, I barely recognized you.

That would be the point, Marquis.

How are yeh? I imagine you smell fairly rank by now.

Right as rain, mon ami. But what of you? Is this something you wanted?

You mean my face? I can't help the ridiculous things my warden thinks up.

[But the fact that he's not turning purple about it probably is a good indicator that Jones is pleased he's not being made fun of all the time now]

I believe I would rather that he would have sought your permission first.