He winced with every footstep, every rattle of every machine he passed. Even if he was currently invisible and untraceable, it still made him quite nervous to be sneaking around the most top secret and dangerous facility in perhaps the entire realm of Midgard. Loki had needed to sneak into S.H.I.E.L.D., though, for reasons he wished to keep to himself. Really, he had just wanted to see how easy the security and defenses were overcome. Quite, now that he had checked. The question was, how did he get out without being noticed? Turning the corner, he noticed an entire swarm of people down the long, narrow hallway. Damn, he thought, how am I going to get through that? About five young ladies began to draw near to him, obviously on business, but giggling to each other nonetheless. Cursing, he hid himself in a nearby janitor's closet, hoping they would not notice the door opening and closing by itself.
