[And Loki is knocked back, though he doesn't fall, just stumbles, but recovers a few paces.]

Ah- there are many such as those back home- or were, when Lady Sif sought to become a warrior. Of course, now she is accepted. Though when a man wishes to follow a path other than warrior, he is not regarded as highly as she is.

[It's frustrating, in a way, to know, to remember how he once used to be able to fight, even if he preferred not to, and to be like this, new and untried again. He knows Nell is greatly holding back and if he weren't in the body of a thirteen year old, he would be embarrassed.]