"Honestly, is there anyone who hasn't waged war with Asgard?" he murmurs rhetorically. "Sometimes I think perhaps the Aesir aren't as nice as we'd like to think we are."

That was so audibly tongue-in-cheek the next door neighbors probably picked up on the sarcasm.

His voice gets gentler again after that, though. "He said something similar to me, once, but has since changed his mind. There is...a tremendous gulf of experience and outlook between Thor and myself, and always will be."

"You'll have to forgive me for not questioning your entourage," he adds, a wry note creeping into his voice. "I was distracted."

"But what matters is that you are here, now, and we can make that a good thing."