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[realitywarped]

[Loki's in his kitchen again, leaning against one of the freezers.]

Hello, assorted crew of the Moira! As I was very recently reminded, thank you Chara, I seem to have a severed head in my freezer. If you'd like to reclaim it, let me know.

[He shrugs at the camera like severed heads aren't all that weird- and maybe they aren't. He remembers being one, once or twice, after all.]

Ah, and if you're after low-tech weaponry, do let me know. With the station so very dull for exploring, I seem to have a little downtime. I believe the armoury can handle the more exotic options, but if it's just a sharp stabby implement you're after, I can manage those.

[Read: he isn't risking people seeing his medical profile again- or the blood overlay he's heard about in the prison wing.]

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[destinysword]

[ Oh wow, look who's actually showing his scarred-ass face on the network for once! And just in time to see this gem. ]

A severed head? [ Geralt doesn't look especially shocked, or disgusted. Mostly just kind of curious. ] What sort of severed head?

[realitywarped]

Human, male, nothing particularly special. Probably a little freezerburnt, by now. Kitchen freezers, even industrial scale ones, aren't really meant for the storage of heads.

[It's just a head, as far as Loki's concerned. Someone left it there, and he's sort of claimed it since he found it.]

[destinysword]

You mean the big metal ice boxes?

Not sure why anyone would want to preserve a human head, but I guess freezing would be about the best way to do it.

[realitywarped]

...Ah. Unfamiliar with modern technology, then? Yes, one of the big metal ice boxes.

[Loki knows how it goes. Asgard was stuck in firelight and stone flooring for a very long time too.]

I'm not sure either, but I'm sure there was a reason. Perhaps not a kitchen freezer, however. They have a morgue and a cryobay on the ship, after all.

[destinysword]

Where I come from, if we need to freeze something, we bury it in a snowbank.

[ Said lightly, but human heads aside- ]

Anyway, what do you think about crossbows? I lost mine somewhere on the way here.

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[cardboard_boss]

Don't know about the severed head but if you've got a good combat knife? I'm interested. [Because the Ingress took his and he missed it.]

[realitywarped]

I can make you a good combat knife, perhaps, if you can tell me what that looks like to you. I'm more a dagger person, personally.

[Like this one he's helpfully holding up.]

You'd owe me a small favour, that's all.

[cardboard_boss]

Yeah. It's more like this.

[Snake pulls up a photo from his iDroid of the knife's weapons specs. It helped having R+D uploaded onto his device.]

It's like a survival knife. Grooved edges with a strong handle.

[realitywarped]

An interesting shape to try and create. Perhaps a mould?

[Well, he doesn't mind the occasional challenge, as long as it's in an area of expertise. Knives shouldn't be that hard, at least.]

Well, I can always try, at least. Success not guaranteed, of course. And it probably won't be exactly like the picture, not least because I suspect they were working with machinery and I only have a rather more traditional forge to work with.

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[draperies]

A severed head, Loki?

[realitywarped]

Mmm, yes. Not mine, before you try and pull the disapproving face- or decide I need some righteous smiting, for that matter. I seem to have inherited it from the rightful owner.

[He raises an eyebrow, safe behind a camera. This isn't his brother, at all, and assuming their relationship is at all similar is probably dangerous. He doesn't know what the other Loki was like, after all- although he can make certain assumptions.

All Lokis burn, after all.]

[draperies]

You inherited it?

[His brows draw together in confusion for a moment.

He is wary of this Loki, yes, but he is young... and while he is not his Loki, Thor finds it difficult to not wish to know more of him.

Perhaps this Loki will not have to give way to the madness. He will not have to burn. Or perhaps it's all naive hope.]

And what do you intend to do with it?

[realitywarped]

Yes. Someone left in my freezer, and no-one seems to be claiming it, so now it's mine.

[He smiles, thin and sharp and still a little reserved, unwilling to trust this Thor's apparent good temper. Besides, it's always fun, mystifying Thor, if a little easy sometimes.]

Well, it's perhaps not truly mine to dispose of, so- keep it, for now. It's amusing when people come across it by accident.

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[notyoursupergirl]

What the fuck.

[realitywarped]

[He waves at Kara, smiling slightly. Hey, look, the reaction he was half-after.]

Head, severed, male human of sliiightly indeterminate age. In a shopping bag. Someone left it.

[notyoursupergirl]

[ She's here to help. Sort of. ]

Okay, cool, why was it in the kitchen.

[realitywarped]

Because the kitchens have freezers, presumably.

[Loki is also clearly the most helpful of people.]

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[whatdidisay]

Oh. Hm.

( this... is probably best for miles to deal with. )

[realitywarped]

[Possibly, but Miles hasn't answered, and Ivan has.]

Ah, mister Vorpatril. That sounds like the unsurprised hmm of someone who knows something. Care to volunteer it?

[whatdidisay]

Lord Vorpatril. ( he corrects automatically. he doesn't mind captain vorpatril, or even just vorpatril. but the 'mister'? that's not his title. ) I thought she'd have put it in the morgue.

( that counts, right? )

[realitywarped]

Oh, if we're talking titles, I'm a prince. And strictly speaking, it's much politer to use one of my very many titles. Synonym for god and or lord, synonym for mischief, something along those lines usually.

[If Ivan wants to be picky about titles...]

And the morgue is locked, as you should know.

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[ryuuzaki]

Do you have an image of the head?

[He asks in a tone that sounds extremely similar to what you'd expect if someone were to ask, "Can I borrow a pen?" or "Do you know where there's a convenience store nearby?"]

[realitywarped]

[Loki's hardly able to say much about nonchalance in the face of bits of people, really. He answers in much the same tone.]

Alas, no. And unwrapping it might prove awkward, given that the bag seems to be frozen to the head.

[ryuuzaki]

That's a shame. It might help us identify the owner.

[The original owner or the person who left it there, either one, he's not picky at this point.]

Maybe you could take it to medical.

[realitywarped]

Oh, perhaps, but as it's none of the crew I don't think they'd do much. It's very dead.

[Even Loki is aware that the kind of freezing that happens in ordinary domestic freezers wouldn't leave a brain in terribly good shape.]

Besides, I already know the person who should be responsible for it.