It absolutely is a magpie, tail twitching as it hops up onto the back of the sofa, critical eye skipping over what Thor had been doing. "Your brackets are crooked."

"Ikol, be nice," Loki chided from Thor's embrace, grin widening as he peered up at him. "I came to the Nexus to visit you, and they told me you were in this town so I came here! You all found a much nicer place to set up shop than the Asgardians back home did, everything's all sand and rocks around Asgardia and the humans there are kind of... cranky about us being there."

He huffed as if annoyed by that before shaking his head. "But that's not the point! I've been practicing and I learned a new trick!"

Because of course the first thing he would do is beeline to Thor to show him.