When have I been anything but? [There's a cadence that he catches the hook of to answer, and he is almost afraid to think too long on it, lest it disappear.] Iofast, who carries club rather than blade or hammer or spear. Iofast the over-clever, the loud, who makes merry from beginning to end in every quest.

[He is a bard's son, if nothing else. And he knows that there are endless sides to a story, and holds the gift to present the one that fits best the circumstance. And if it is only a fool who the shade will gentle for? A fool he will be, for the moment.]

You cannot be Loki, surely, if you think me anything else.