Loki looks back at his empty fingers, then gestures as if reaching out to pick up the piece floating in front of him, and it reforms in his hand as he does. "Yes," he says unhelpfully, with a sharp smile, and sets the piece delicately to one side of the board.

If the magician were to reveal his secrets, he would not be a magician.

In fact it had been a combination of illusory and sent elsewhere. It isn't his chess set, destroying a piece of it would have been somewhat rude. "I have been a part of one or two daring rescues. Do you run across them often?"