"Here's to stubborn, spiteful little brats who keep on keeping on." Did Cricket miss the considerations? Probably for the best- he meant well and would worry about Loki doing what he'd planned. Better to save telling him until it was time to do it, lessen how long he'd have to worry for.

"You're not wrong there. I ran into you, after all." It was a heartening idea, that whatever else there was, that maybe the fate's perchance for misery in his future was offset by the Nexus and it's oddities. Cricket was certainly proof of that. "We'll put a pin in the kids conversation for now, revisit it later. Because well I'm not totally adverse to the idea, so we'll see what the future holds, hm?"