I will be frank, as there is no point besides the point! I have no great liking for the being that has ensnared us here. I take it from your previous comments that you rather share my ire, as I suspect many of us do. Yet in order to understand more of our current predicament, I believe I shall need to understand more of machinery.

This is, of course, why I could not communicate this over her own network. I do not expect you to take up arms against the thing, or anything so rash or personally dangerous. But in time, I hope to gather a variety of artifacts-- I would ask you to dissect and explain them to me, to the best of your abilities.

[Loki makes a vague open-palmed gesture.]

Is this acceptable? I will not hold it against you if it is not.