Lived so long, yet only recently starting to figure things out... [He gives a rueful chuckle.] That is uncomfortably familiar. Or perhaps comfortably, if it is something all other Lokis struggle with.

You should never be surprised that I might be using you. But that does not have to be a bad thing. I have allowed others to use me in turn, without harm to them. We use each other, but we also help each other.

Anyway. You know magic? And can use magic as we gods do? [He smiles a little.] I hope I have a chance to inform Doctor Foster of that fact. She would feel quite vindicated.