Unable to hear what they were saying to one another, Hermione had to rely on body language. What she saw made bile rise in her throat. It was unmistakable; Loki was submitting himself to Hela, something she'd thought he only ever did for her. Loki, no... Silently, she pleaded for him to stand, to not let this woman take him as her own. That was supposed to be her. She felt the first fissures in her heart at the sight, but it was amplified tenfold as Hela tugged his mouth to hers and kissed him. Everything changed in that moment; the world shifting entirely as the reality of what she'd done hit her.