"...I wish I'd had a friend like you growing up Eilonwy. It might've saved me from some mistakes." Honestly he wished he'd had a friend of his own, period. But especially one like Eilonwy. A nod of thanks to her as well.

"I'm quite certain Vaeros would be both subtler and use more direct magic. I admit, with time I've come to wonder also if it is not that he was using multiple spells at the feast and ball not because he is weak, but perhaps as a fail-safe and/or to make us more pliable by using many routes to get to us. Should one method fail, there had been another. If multiple angles of enchantment also happened to make us weaker to overall to the attempt, that would also serve his purpose."

Bringing a snack up himself, Loki looked at it for a moment. "Damn that I didn't have my magic then." The bite of snack might be a bit vicious, given the statement.