You know that every choice I make is not on behalf of you or myself. Father would not have allowed it, he closed himself off to dissent and.. [He hates to say it, and he wrestles with it, but the truth will be told regardless of how it feels.]

People were afraid of you, Loki. Of you, of the Dark Elves, of what was to come. Asgard was afraid. [He grits his teeth, he's already anticipating the venom in Loki's reaction.]

I cannot offer you what you want and I will not give you platitudes when you know you do not want them.