[He doesn't look Steve in the eyes. He just goes on, quietly trying to explain it all.]

I understand that fully. See... Wan Shi Tong is from my world. We've had conflict with him in the past. The difference is that at home, he had a special library that he was entrusted with and added to by himself. Here... he doesn't have the same rights to these books. But at the same time... when he made one of his representatives, he said that he could be open to compromise if we could prove ourselves as trustworthy. I know it's not right and it's not ideal... but if we could have played along with him for just a little while, then he might have relaxed the rules and it'd be almost the way it was before.

Even if Loki's intentions were good... They might have ruined one way we could have solved this peacefully.