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Tony's voice is muffled by the ringing in his ears as he frantically tries to cast something, anything, even the simplest of spells. Panic grips him more with each failed cast. He feels like he's falling and floating and sinking all at the same time.

Then his bonded puts a gentle hand on his and reality comes back into focus. His fingers curl around the man's hand, holding on to it like a lifeline.

"I-I don't know." He closes his eyes and tries to focus on the warmth from Tony's hand.
"Roof. If we call Heimdall we should go to the roof." No sense tearing up the living room.

A few minutes later, Tony still looking with worry at Loki. They’re at least on the roof, but nothing seems to be happening. Tony slips his hands into his pockets and buffets the heavy, cold winds. Whatever is wrong with Loki seems to also be wrong with the proverbial watcher god. His mind is going a mile a minute but on the off chance that Loki begins to throw a fit, Tony’s keeping close.

“I don’t think it’s you,” Tony says, eyes leaving the sky to touch his bonded. “It’s like something has been blocked.”

He nearly said “severed” but that wouldn’t have gone over well.

“Even if you lost your magic, Golden Eye would still find us.”

Loki's thoughts race, thinking of every possible reason why Heimdall wouldn't answer their call. Sure, he and the Gatekeeper never saw eye-to-eye, and had tried to kill each other in recent memory, but he would never shirk his duties by flat-out ignoring a call for aid. Which means something must be preventing him from answering.

Perhaps the same thing preventing Loki's magic from reaching him.

He shivers despite the fact that the cold on the roof shouldn't bother him. With Tony's hand in his, he realizes the chill is his bonded's rather than his.

"Come, let's get you warmed up," Loki says, suddenly feeling guilty for all the unfettered panic he must have been pushing through the bond. Tony seemed to handle it well, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there. He takes a deep breath and focuses once more on the warm hand in his as a way of clearing his thoughts.

Once inside, Loki gives Tony's hand a squeeze. "I have a theory, but we will need to contact Thor to confirm it."

“Do we have to...?” Though Banner has stuck around, and Thor comes and goes, it’s been nice to mostly just work with Loki. Tony has always been a loner, and while Pepper and Happy had been by his side from time to time, they’d known to let him be. Dragging more people into the ring seems like an undo hardship.

Still, this isn’t his area of expertise. Technically, it’s not Thor’s either, but with an eye roll, Tony agrees. “Where’d he get to?”

Probably with that astrophysicist. She seems... boring. Which means of course that she’ll come along too. Tony rolls his eyes again and has JARVIS find Jane Foster.

At least his hands few warmer now.

Loki snickered at Tony's reluctance to invite Thor and his human into ~~their~~ his space. It's unclear to him whether the human had always been this private, or if it is the subtle influence of the bond. Either way, it benefitted Loki.

"I simply need to ask him a few questions about his powers. If I am correct, he will be feeling something of an effect as well. You furnished him with one of these 'smartphones', yes?"

“Then he doesn’t have to come here?” Tony fishes the phone from his pocket and hands it to Loki. “Knock your socks off.”

He’s going to busy himself analyzing atmospheric differences just in case it’s some sort of natural phenomenon interrupting Loki and his magic.

Thor, at least, is pleased to have his brother call him and he sounds honestly excited to hear his voice. “Brother! Jane Foster and I were just speaking of you. Heimdall seems angry with me. Did you or I say anything when last we were in Asgard?”

"So you have been in contact?" Loki breathed a sigh of relief. At least that means Asgard is safe.

"Something is interfering with my magic, and I fear it may have something to do with his silence. How fare your powers?" If he's right, Thor will notice some difficulty, but will retain most of his abilities as they are mostly innate rather than learned.

There’s silence for a moment before Thor snorts. “No. Yes. Not long ago. Jane, one moment,” Thor says on the other end of the line and inadvertently slams the door as he heads outside. “I asked to bring Jane Foster to Asgard and he has not spoke with me since.” Which is unfair. Loki was allowed to bring his mortal. “Tell me what is wrong with your magic?”

"I..." Loki looks around as if anyone other than himself or Tony even could be in the room. "I can't feel it. At all." He know he sounds a bit like a frightened child, but it's so hard to care right now.

"It's different than with the shackles. It isn't suppressed, my connection to Yggdrasil is gone."

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