Instead of finding myself in where a soul usually goes; I find myself somewhere else. The bumpy rocky ground is at best terrible to drive on with a car by a reasonable assumption. The sky is dark above except the marvelous clear stars twinkling in the distance made it less dark. The moon is not in sight but what is to me is a large willow tree.

I am standing by a large ancient willow tree.

I hear a fake cough.

I turn towards the source of this fake cough and see Loki.

"You remember who I am?" Loki asks.

"Yes," I said. "Am I dead?"

"No," Loki said. "You are not."

"Pardon me, but I just went out of my way to take down many of the creatures I hate and pressed the detonate button," I said. "I should be dead." I fold my arms. "Where am I?"

"You are dreaming," Loki said. "And I am tapping into the dream channel."

"I do not understand," I said. "I should not be dreaming."

"But you are," Loki said, taking a step forwards towards me. "I thought it would be easy to speak with you after being sent to the planet. But as it turns out you avoided resting for 29 years, lost most of your memory, and rarely ate at all."

"Xenomorphs have a rather different stomach and resting internal clock," I said.

"And doing that harmed you," Loki said. "From day 1 on that planet you viewed yourself as a monster and strayed away from civilization."

"Well, at least I didn't kill anyone," I said.

"Emily," Loki said. "When I finally got to you; you were going to eat a butterfly in a dream."

"I wasn't going to eat it," I protest.

"I know the look of 'I am going to eat this' in your eyes," Loki said. "And making you aware what you were about eat was one step back from acting on fear."

"If I wasn't in denial then you would be right," I said. "You helped the girl find my cave, didn't you?"

"Yes," Loki said. "But I didn't lead her to the cave. Let's get that straight. She found it on her own."

"And doing that doomed everyone," I said.

"I know nothing what happened between you two," Loki said. "Apparently her interaction brought you out of your shell."

"I laid an egg," I said.

Loki stares at me.

"You...what?" Loki asks.

"Laid an egg," I said. "You must have seen the eggs in Bouvet Island."

"Emily, you don't lay an egg because you befriend a person," Loki said. "And second off; I am not the one who is an Xenomorph. Which brings me to what I have been wanting to discuss for three decades."

I had a reasonable guess what this discussion is going to be about.

"You had a deal with Odin and you never bothered to tell me," Loki said. "Was it Odin who told you about your real heritage?"

"Yes," I said. "But I turned down the deal—"

"When?" Loki asks, interrupting me. "Was this when you went to Louisiana?"

"No," I said.

"Oh, was it when you admitted to me you had feelings?" Loki asks.

"No," I said. "I turned it down after taking you to the orphanage and burying my old phone in the backyard." Well, looks like Loki didn't know I had buried my old phone. "By then I came to accepting my life is never going to be the same."

"So let me get this straight," Loki said. "You expected me to come through the painting as a child," I shook my head. "Be left without the use of magic," I shook my head again. "And not be taken seriously?"

I shook my head.

"All of that; no," I said.

"When did Odin approach you?" Loki asks.

"Before you stalked me," I said.

"I wasn't stalking," Loki said.

"Yes, you were," I said.

"The previous times I followed you were to get an answer on how you knew where I was," Loki said. "Which I have yet to get a straight answer."

"You were reading a Richard Castle book," I said. "And he was going to be signing books later in the week so I guessed you were a major fan of his."

"Is that it?" Loki asks. "You gave Thor a wild guess to go off of and find me?"

"Yes," I said. "And also, this means you are likely not going to find my cell phone."

"Sounds like a dare to me," Loki said.

"It is not a dare," I said. "It is a fact."

"That football stadium," Loki said. "That was part of the terms. You had to befriend me and draw me out into New Mexico."

"You are here," I said. "In my dream and my body is currently a somehow preserved Xenomorph body. So it never happened."

"If I hadn't been pestering you; what would you have done?" Loki asks.

"Since the ride to New Mexico is pretty long I would have waited for school to be out," I said. "And then lure you in the stadium—somehow in someway I would have done it—and watch the Bifrost take you back to your home. Then after that I would have been sent back to my Midgard. Our two worlds very different and having a cell phone conversation would be difficult so knowing you; you would have been furious bu—oh wait, you would have been a teenager by then."

"That is a big flaw in your plan," Loki said.

"Exactly," I said. "The teenage part. I knew once you were a teenager you could go out and make a life of your own until you were an adult. There was no way I would be able to take you there even without knowing you would become a teenager."

"...Emily, you suggested that stadium to me," Loki said.

"That was probably Emily 2," I said. "I never mentioned the Football stadium."

"There is one thing that wouldn't be different," Loki said.

"What?" I ask.

"You being the test subject to the Exo-Suit," Loki said. "They decided on the get-go you would be the one to wear it."

"...Exo-Suit?" I ask.

But I did feel plenty of anger.

"That is what it is referred to in the files," Loki said. "And what else would not have been different is the events in Bouvet Island and the earthquake you made to help a girl."

I sigh.

"Loki," I said. "Maybe we should have a break. You know how weird it sounds only able to speak with your 'girlfriend' through dreams? That sounds unusual and long-distant. I don't want you to hold out for me. I'll just be a friend; that is all I'll be to you."

"You know what 'girlfriend' means?" Loki asks.

"Yeah," I said. "I do."

"Apparently you are thinking the other definition; it means a friend who is a girl," Loki said. "Isn't that what friends are for; to be there for each other?"

"Yeah," I said. "They do."

"You misunderstood the context for 'girlfriend',Emily," Loki said.

"Frigga told you what I said," I said.

Loki nods.

"She told me everything after you left," Loki said. "No; you didn't ruin the relationship. You just made more questions than answers."