Loki's heart twists sideways to consider what will come of the spirit of winter when his conversations have ended – to consider the unwanted exile his absence will reinstate. Ikol does not see the boy that comes with the wind, after all. The man he used to be has no use for the tales Midgardians tell their children.

Everything burns, and it's not like any fire Jack's ever seen. The spirit of winter and the little god of mischief take on demons, Muspelheim, and the secrets Loki's been keeping from himself. Part 4 in the In Which an Unlikely Friendship Comes to Be series.

Jack and kid!Loki of Journey Into Mystery raid Asgardia's kitchens and North's workshop in an ongoing campaign of mischief. Finding a home with each other is just a little bonus along the way. Part 3 of the In Which an Unlikely Friendship Comes to Be series.

Behind them, a man's voice is bellowing, "What is meaning of this?" but if there is meant to be more, they do not hear it, for they are barreling down a tunnel of ice, shrieking laughter before they shoot out into a world of blue and white. Kid!Loki and Jack mischief. Part 2 of the In Which an Unlikely Friendship Comes to Be series.

Loki recalls stories of frost giants, hideous monsters that bring the ice, as he takes in this creature of simple pleasure. He recalls that the people of Asgardia say he is just such a horror of winter – but here and now, watching this boy play upon the walls as though nothing else exists in the world, he does not see how it can possibly be a bad thing. (kid!Loki and Jack)