Evolved Devotion (гет)

To pray to a god is comparable to worship in its own right. The soul of the person engaged in prayer may call out to one god in particular, despite what the prayer entails or if it falls beneath the god’s dominion. Like finds like, after all.
Loki, a trickster god, has never been the popular choice for prayers. Even at the height of worship, the prayers he received were few and far between, often coming from those that his godhood found resembled him. But when they were faced with him, rather than Thor or Frigga, they rescinded their prayer and refused his help, believing it would come at a cost to them. The truth of the matter was that Loki revered those that worshiped him, protecting and adoring them in kind, which made their rejections sting all the more. Nowadays, he was lucky if he received a single prayer within the span of a century.
When he receives a prayer in the midst of a meeting with his father, brother, and the council of Asgard, he nearly collapses from the overwhelming emotion it elicits. Once he registers the nature of the prayer, that of desperation and fear, he leaves the meeting with a hasty farewell, coming to the aid of the one he would come to know as Antonia “Toni” Stark.