[ He hasn't fully realized that he could easily avoid it. That there is no expectation on him to act. Loki may have differing opinions about family, but he had always cared about it. And this was intimate and terrifying and put a deep well of fear that he cannot fully exorcise; that there was more of Odin and the worst parts in him, even with children. ]
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. . . I can't do that.