“Good morning!”

The greeting alone is enough to halt Minato mid-step. He knows what he’ll see, even before he turns – so he doesn’t. He simply lowers his foot back to the floor, and watches with a slow blue gaze as the ends of thick, braided tendrils begin to float past him. He hears, more than feels, the clink of gold chains against his sharp, bone-white jaw. When he tilts his head back, he finds exactly who he expected floating above him – bright golden eyes and a smile too pleased to mean anything good. “We don’t have that here,” Minato reminds him, eyes sliding away and over the dark scape of the underworld.

“Ah, but you are looking especially radiant today,” the Trickster claims, guiding Minato’s attention back with the tips of his claws scraping gently over his cheeks. “I had mistaken you for the sun.”

Art of @raptormorphs (God AU) Loki Akechi and Thanatos Minato Minake fic! Please read it, it’s delicious food!