That is true. Willie would make an excellent war mount. There isn't a hostile bone in her body, but she's still knocking things over with her sheer size.
But there is still a mystery here. Cricket's expression is uncertain, too, when he looks up at Loki, but there's far too much softness in it for it to be a rejection. He's wondering, really, whether this is supposed to be some sort of reassurance that Loki still sees him as capable, and not the invalid he feels like more often than not. That would be like him, he thinks, and he's about to ask, but then the penny drops.
It's a pretty huge penny. The look that dawns on Loki's face is telling, but Cricket is, for the moment, too caught up in his own sudden shock to read it.
"Intended?" He repeats in a raspy whisper, and turns slowly pink. "Intended like...like you're thinking we should get married?!" His voice squeaks upward an octave.
The potential complication are insane, and Loki comes with a lot of baggage, and Cricket didn't even know if this was a thing that could happen, but suddenly the possibility has flared to life right in front of his eyes and he's halfway blinded.
He's not sure what to say. Not sure if this is the same kind of engagement gift a ring would be, not sure what happens from here if he--when he says yes, because obviously he's going to. And it occurs to him at once that of all the times in their life together Loki could have brought this up, he chose this one, where Cricket is as weak as he's ever been.
He makes a wordless little choking noise, nods vehemently, and flings himself awkwardly across the minimal space between them, hugging Loki as tightly as he can.
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But there is still a mystery here. Cricket's expression is uncertain, too, when he looks up at Loki, but there's far too much softness in it for it to be a rejection. He's wondering, really, whether this is supposed to be some sort of reassurance that Loki still sees him as capable, and not the invalid he feels like more often than not. That would be like him, he thinks, and he's about to ask, but then the penny drops.
It's a pretty huge penny. The look that dawns on Loki's face is telling, but Cricket is, for the moment, too caught up in his own sudden shock to read it.
"Intended?" He repeats in a raspy whisper, and turns slowly pink. "Intended like...like you're thinking we should get married?!" His voice squeaks upward an octave.
The potential complication are insane, and Loki comes with a lot of baggage, and Cricket didn't even know if this was a thing that could happen, but suddenly the possibility has flared to life right in front of his eyes and he's halfway blinded.
He's not sure what to say. Not sure if this is the same kind of engagement gift a ring would be, not sure what happens from here if he--when he says yes, because obviously he's going to. And it occurs to him at once that of all the times in their life together Loki could have brought this up, he chose this one, where Cricket is as weak as he's ever been.
He makes a wordless little choking noise, nods vehemently, and flings himself awkwardly across the minimal space between them, hugging Loki as tightly as he can.