There was a time I thought I had. [ He glances back to him and there's something genuine in the look, something simpler, keener in the tone, but it's gone the next moment. ]

I go with what I observe - what you say has little to do with it. [ That's the closet he'll get to a 'yes, you're right' for now. He steps close again, not throttling him again but enough to be looming ] You will stay by my side, you will do as commanded of you, and the Nine help you if I find you've harmed any of the innocents here, brother. You are yet a prisoner and still my ward until Asgard is reached.