Absolutely not tame, but this wasn't the first time Loki had made himself a guest of humans. Maybe not so blatantly, but he'd sidled up and played nice for mischief or attention once or twice in his life.

The gaze on Cricket was entirely benign. There was no way the fox knew exactly, right? Eggs and apples were common enough that he'd surely heard the names before and learned what those were. Surely if he'd been around humans before he'dve figured that much out.

Him understanding otherwise was simply silly, right?