"That depends on your definition of 'close'. I would say no. We were never friends. They loathed me and would have been rid of me in a second if Thor hadn't insisted on my presence." Loki would have, at least sometimes, been more than happy to have been left behind. Sometimes, though, being with a group of people who hated him had seemed better than being alone.

Back then, anyway; he'd learned since then that alone was always better for him. "But I did spend a great deal of time around them and knew them fairly well, I think."