I'm pleased to see you used my spell to your advantage.

[Was there any good reason now to not simply set this place on fire, once they left? If there was, Loki hadn't come to it yet.]

Not what I expected, and not what I was looking for, but amusing all the same.

[And it would bolster his story when he went back, so that he would likely indeed just get a mild scolding for slipping off without notice. It would cost him a secret way to Midgard, but there were others. Loki was counting this as a win.]

Are you going to dispatch the spirit?