If it makes you feel better, my brother and I didn't know his name – his real one – until we heard it from someone else. [ because having every single one of the old-world gods in one room all at once can only mean good things, right?

yeah, that had ended well. ] We knew him as Loki before that. [ and he isn't going to go out of his way to explain that, either. because he's convinced everyone should know who loki is.

he gives a bit of a pause when she says she went looking for him – because even though this must have been before he started coming to the plane at all, he wouldn't have expected anyone here to have actually known him before he showed up. ( again, angels, and he tells himself he shouldn't be surprised that gabriel tried to point her in his direction.

gaze downcast, he briefly abandons his perusal of the books in front of him. ] I'm sorry. We could have done something about it, probably, but it must have been before I started coming here. [ by 'we', of course he means himself and dean, and he also figures that if gabriel told her about him, she knows about the both of them. ] I only talked to Gabriel once, when I first got here. Not once since. I was wondering where he'd gone …