im back, ungrateful peasants. Feast now! XD

Tony tore down the halls (not literally, though he'd like to. The Carrier could use some of his style advice.) pretty sure he looked like the impersonation of a mad man. Eyes wide and breathing heavily, his arc reactor pulsing different shades of blue as he struggles to not run into people and breath all at the same time. (He's not the best at multitasking, despite what others think.)

By the times he's reached the meeting room that acts as the Avengers lounge area he's willing to bet he's done more exercise in the three minutes and forty two seconds (yes, he counted. It was agony.) it took to run there then he has as iron man.

He bursts through the door to see that all the others are there. Good, because he didn't know what was going on and that was something Tony Stark did not like. It's safe to say he shocked Thor, Capsicle, and Bruce; probably only intrigued the flying idiot and Natasha. All eyes are on him (He takes a moment to preen at the attention, no matter how he looks. Spot lights are what he does best.)

"Thor, your brother-spider fingers-snake things-sparkles-!", he can only gasp outs so much between his desperate gulps of air as he tries to catch his breath. He knows he probably looks like an idiot all sweaty and puffer fish like cheeks and bug eyes, but he's ninety two percent sure this discovery is somewhat important. So he doesn't (Yes he does.) care too much right at the moment.

Thor immediately is at his feet and the next thing Tony knows he's having his brains shook out by an almost kind of immortal god, "What has happened, Stark? Is Loki well? Is my brother well?"

Tony wants to say sarcastically that, maybe if you stop shaking my I could tell you! He can sense this is a pretty important thing to Thor though, and his sarcasm may not be appreciated that much. So he settles for just spitting it out.

"Loki, has glowing snake things coming form his hands." He tells them. The reaction he gets from Thor is, to say the least, not what he was expecting.

Thor laughed. The god actually laughed at his panic. Tony decided he didn't like gods. (Especially ones that make him feel like an idiot. He doesn't do moronic.)

"You are referring to Loki's sorcery, yes?", Thor asks him. And, back up a minute because, what? Magic? No it can't be what Thor said, he just misheard him. Because there isn't any such thing as magic, it isn't real. Then why does the god look so serious? Tony's decided he hates aliens.

"Sorcery..", he mumbles back, looking for some sort of logical explanation, scientific explanation.

Thor interrupts his mental muttering, "Yes. I assume what you speak of his Loki's sorcery. When he is nervous or bored he will begin to conjure his magic as a form of entertainment."

"How does that even work?" Tony demands.

Thor doesn't seem to have an answer for that because his face screws up in confusion (It's not a pretty face.) and he shakes his head.

"No other member of the Odin line has the gift of sorcery, I do not know the working of it; 'magic is like clockwork' is what Loki once told me long ago. You must ask him if you seek answers.", he says.

Yeah, Tony thinks, screw that. He can live with not knowing.

He doesn't even look at the others as he turns around and walks swiftly out of the room. And, well, if he slows down a bit walking past Loki's cage, no one needs to know.

He might after a while. Not right now, Loki's insane after all. (Or maybe so sane he seems psychotic. Tony thinks he couls relate.)