Exotic Travails

What terrifies him most is not that Sif betrayed him to the slavers, but that she didn’t even hide her involvement; if she expected him to escape, or be set free, or be rescued, or ransomed, then she would never have risked the royal family’s displeasure.Which implies that she believes he’s out of her hair for good. The way she always wanted.  (Happy Birthday, Tom Hiddleston! Constantly traumatizing Loki is a sign that we love you!)

It's Tom Hiddleston's birthday, and I decided for once that I was actually going to get a piece posted on the actual day. Not that my Muse would cooperate and make something small and self-contained as planned; no, this goes on the giant pile of WIP, and who knows when/if I'll ever make progress on this one.(If anyone cares to build on this idea, I encourage it!)This fills a variety of prompts from the Febuwhump list for both 2022 and 2021: Betrayal, kidnapped; blindfolded, restrained; sleep deprivation, torture; too weak to move; can't go home; "how long has it been?" For the 2022 prompts, that covers days 9, 10, 14, 22, and 24, plus alt 7.  (I doubt that's the end of the inspiration I'll take from those lists, but let's not get ahead of ourselves and make spoilers and/or promises I might not be able to keep.)  This piece goes out to a few Lokiwhump lovers who I've got listed in my notes as appreciating either (a) sensory deprivation, (b) restraint torture, (c) Loki being scared out of his mind, or (d) all of the above. So that's Achika, Lokislonelylady, and Lost_in_Labradorite_halls; hope you enjoy this little taste of whump!