Timelines are very screwed up, if you're from a future where you've met what I'm supposed to become. He's not just an older Loki, you know. He's me.

[Loki, but burning. Always and forever insane, tied to a role he tried so hard to escape. Sometimes it's enough to make him contemplate giving up, but- he still has to believe the future isn't set in stone. That somewhere there's a loophole for him.

Perhaps he'll find it in the people around him. Even if Verity's saying she ran from him then, she's here now. He's allowed to take a little comfort from that, surely.]

There's no time to not be perfectly well, is there? [Evasion, but true.] But... I am sorry you had to worry.