dicey | IC contact for adstringendum

You? Warn me? And here one should be able to expect that by now you knew your place and would refrain from such foolishness. If nothing here belongs into the library, then you have nothing to fear, so why bother with throwing a tantrum that is only bound to end in your own, bodily harm?

[in response, she pulls a knife out of her jacket pocket, unsheathes it, and charges]

[He catches the knife's blade with his bare hand, neither the weapon nor the strength it is wielded being enough to pierce his skin. If she isn't careful, he will simply bend the blade backwards and, by doing so make her weapon useless.

But so far, he merely frowns at her.]

[she snarls in frustration and pulls the knife away, then dodges to the side and tries again]

Leave me alone! Just go!

[He catches the knife again, his frown not faltering.]

...foolish little Vriska.

[He holds onto the weapon with one hand and brings up his flat hand right in front of Vriska's face, a faint glow emitting from his palm. It's just a little spell to soothe her anger and make her calm down somewhat. Hopefully.]

[and she yanks it away again, before being distracted by the spell-- then she just looks dazed]

What...

Yes, indeed, what?

[He withdraws his hand and looks at her, contemplatively.]

[she closes her eyes a moment and gives her head a shake, clearing it]

-- I'm not gonna let you push me around. I just want to be left alone! I'm not your fucking toy.

Now, I am not here to... Push you around.

[He tilts his head back a little.]

We can, of course, change that.

[And the tone in his voice says that, yes. It would hurt.]

You're going to go. You don't belong here.

I will take my leave when I decide to do so.

[He takes a step forward with that, unwilling to deal with her being stubborn and simply push past her.]

No! This isn't your house!

[she moves to block him with her body]

[Loki reacts by lashing out with the back of his hand at her. Not with all his strength, however, but still enough to it that it could easily send a grown adult into the nearby wall. Hard.

He isn't out to kill her again. But if she wishes to be put through pain so badly, the god can provide that.]

[she's strong, but not that strong; she hits the wall with a shout, and crumples onto the floor in a heap]

...fool.

[He mutters to himself as he watches her go down and quickly marches over to her fallen form, assuming that he has knocked her unconscious.]

Everyone else would have learned by now. Everyone but you.

[There is a sigh in that tone as he crouches down to pick her up. Neither too gently, nor too rough. True. He is here to invade on her housing, but that doesn't mean he has to leave her lying about just like that. He still snorts faintly while reaching for her body.]

Truly. Were your stubborn head not being such a nuisance, one might actually like you for that trait.

[she isn't unconscious, but she's dazed; when he goes to pick her up, she snarls and lashes out]

Don't you dare fucking touch me. Get out of my house.

[He scowls at her hitting his hand.]

I already refused that. Now how long do you plan to act like this?

[And he is already contemplating what spell to use on her to either knock her out or just bind her in place.]

How long do you plan on acting like a fucking stalker dick?

When will you begin to listen when people talk to you?

It may be news to you, but you, little Vriska, are not the center of the multiverse. Not everything everyone does is being done because of you. Your selfish, unreasonable acting will not bode you well on the long run.

[He lifts his hand, the same hand that she slapped just before, and the ground beneath her liquifies just enough to let her sink into it for an inch or two before becoming solid again and trapping her right there if she doesn't crawl away quickly.]

Unreasonable?! You're. In. My. House!

[she's mostly able to get out of the way, but her leg is trapped, holding her in place]

[Loki watches, then rises back onto his feet upon seeing that Vriska is secured. He pulls out one of his small knives and a medium-sized dragon scale and begins to carve something into the scale without dignifying Vriska with another look.]

If the decision were up to me, I would be long gone from here by now.

[He finishes carving two runes into the scale before bringing the item up to his lips and whispering a spell upon it, effectively sealing it into the runes he just carved. He then places it next to Vriska's trapped leg before veiling himself in those illusions of his Vriska has come to despise so much.

She will not see or hear anything else from the Asgardian as he quickly, yet hidden, takes a look through the structure for any book that once used to be in the library before leaving. Should he fins one that Raven has listed as missing, he will be taking it with him.

After about ten minutes, the runes on the scale will begin to glow, however, and briefly liquify the stone around Vriska's leg once more to set her free.

...unless she kicked the scale away (it could have exploded, right?!). Then any other area that the scale has landed onto will become liquid for a matter of moments and she might have to find a different way to free herself.]

[[ ooc: The books Pitch wrote himself are of no interest to Loki as of now. But he did promise Raven to help out with the library and track down the lost books. For now we can assume that Pitch's books are all written by himself. And I will leave it up to you to decide if Vriska has ever brought a book from the library here or if all her treasures are in her other residence~ Hope that sounds acceptable.]]

I'm going to fucking kill you. I'm going to burn down your house, and your whole stupid library. Just wait. You're going to regret this!

[OOC: Pitch definitely did have some books that weren't written by him, but I'm not sure where he got them ICly. I'm going to have to nix Loki taking any of them, though; sorry! If you need an IC reason for that, you can have him say he just couldn't find them, or that they weren't from the library in the first place; would that work? Most of Vriska's books are either back in the library (she struck a deal with Raven to return them awhile ago) or in the House on the Rock, though, so nothing to worry about there.]

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[ action ] just so you know, I'd rather him not actually end up removing anything from the house!

[ action ] If she told the truth and there is nothing there that doesn't belong there, then he won't

[ action ] it's possible that some of Pitch's book were originally from the library; I'm not sure

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