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"I could have done it, father, for you, for all of us..."
"No, Loki..."
The abyss opened up in his heart long before it swallowed him bodily.
For an instant - as he hung over the void - he saw himself reflected in Odin's diamond blue eye; he saw through the lies, through the fragile veneer of deception to the truth that lay beneath.
He saw himself as the Allfather saw him.
That revelation - a truth too painful to bear - tore at his insides, shredding what was left of his soul until there was nothing but a gaping and raw wound.
"No, Loki..."
What have I done...?
And so he filled the space with a new truth - his own twisted, gnarled and rotten truth, he looked up into the faces of those whom he had lied to - those whom he had loved - he blinked away the reflection of the small, dark haired boy held tightly in a fierce embrace against Odin's chest - he unfurled his fingers from the spear and he let them all go.
