It helps Amelia stay settled to have something to do with her hands. Tea is a familiar ritual for herself, and after checking that her choice of a lightly floral green tea won't go astray, she sets about making it while their conversation continues. It feels much easier for her to sit down across from Jane once she has something in her hands.
"I've heard some stories, yes, from Thor and Loki both. Aside from how far some of their pranks went and the scale of it, it's not so different from what I'm used to with my own siblings." A beat and she huffs a laugh. "One of them, at least. When you're competitive with someone, you always try to take things one step further. Gods only have the chance to do more with it because of what they are than people like you and I."
She shrugs a little as she sips at her tea. "In a way I'm used to it, yes. I kept my ear to the ground with all of the nobility in my city when I could, but I was never so close as to be part of it. My family was only recently made noble before I was pulled from there, and as much as I prepared them for it, there's a gap between being a prominent merchant family and being lowly titled nobles." It's offered as fact rather than something good or bad. High or low never mattered to Amelia where her family was concerned, so long as they had access to what she wanted for them. The lowest of titles did that, and it remains enough for her after sealing off her world from the rest of the multiverse.
"Thor and Loki aren't so competitive anymore. They're supportive of each other through all the hardships both of them have faced, be they world ending or daily frustrations. There's struggles there, of course, but it's a rare and fond sort of companionship." She smiles warmly, turning her cup between her fingers. "They've both settled in their own ways, too. Thor here with me, Loki with his children and a woman he loves. I'm happy for them both, truly, and I know they're happy for one another, too."
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"I've heard some stories, yes, from Thor and Loki both. Aside from how far some of their pranks went and the scale of it, it's not so different from what I'm used to with my own siblings." A beat and she huffs a laugh. "One of them, at least. When you're competitive with someone, you always try to take things one step further. Gods only have the chance to do more with it because of what they are than people like you and I."
She shrugs a little as she sips at her tea. "In a way I'm used to it, yes. I kept my ear to the ground with all of the nobility in my city when I could, but I was never so close as to be part of it. My family was only recently made noble before I was pulled from there, and as much as I prepared them for it, there's a gap between being a prominent merchant family and being lowly titled nobles." It's offered as fact rather than something good or bad. High or low never mattered to Amelia where her family was concerned, so long as they had access to what she wanted for them. The lowest of titles did that, and it remains enough for her after sealing off her world from the rest of the multiverse.
"Thor and Loki aren't so competitive anymore. They're supportive of each other through all the hardships both of them have faced, be they world ending or daily frustrations. There's struggles there, of course, but it's a rare and fond sort of companionship." She smiles warmly, turning her cup between her fingers. "They've both settled in their own ways, too. Thor here with me, Loki with his children and a woman he loves. I'm happy for them both, truly, and I know they're happy for one another, too."