Bruce worked slow and steady once he had the debris softened up from around the wounds. Carefully he worked each strand out, then patched each one up with tediously placed droplets of suture glue. This was torture, to have this done to a man, not justice or safety. They had managed with a muzzle that also dampened Loki's magic, made from some material from Asgard, so the Asgardians could have done the same.

But how had Loki escaped from them?