Last spark from the ashes

"Huh." If he had the energy, and they had the time, he'd want to ask for further details. Where it came from, what it wants, how they communicated with it before it... went to sleep. But it's been a very long day already, and they have much more important business ahead of them. Thor turns his head to look back at the shrouded body, Ghost keeping silent guard over it, and despite knowing what they're here to do there's still a pang of grief at the reminder that Steve is gone.

It had long been habit for Thor to greet the gatekeeper of Asgard whenever he'd returned from a quest, so the news that they may be welcomed at the dock seems normal to him. He hesitates, though, when Blaze asks who should carry the body, aware that it's absolutely absurd to worry that he might hurt his friend.

Steve is dead. He won't feel any of this.

"I can do that," he answers, rather quiet. There are too many friends he's lost and not been able to give them their rites, or even see the bodies off properly. If this works, and Steve returns to them a Guardian renewed, then this will not be the last thing that Thor may do for his friend. But if it is, and this is Steve's final fate... Thor would not let him be carried to his rest by anyone else.

With Mjolnir on his hip and Stormbreaker secured against his back, he bends to lift Steve as gently as he would a living person, struggling against the lump in his throat at how lifeless and cold the body is. But he can control himself well enough to make it through this, and he nods to Blaze, prepared to follow her lead.