[He's fairly close to just throwing the locket across the room and stomping away, but it's also his own fear rearing its ugly head. He doesn't say anything for a moment, simply steaming at the way they'd both reacted but being too stubborn to apologize yet.]

We're working on it. [He's tempted to point out there are other factors he and Loki aren't sharing yet, but why show his hand?] You know what you can do for now? Put together scouting teams, use whoever we have available from last time, pool resources. I want a few everywhere we can reach to start mapping out places to evacuate to. Focus on getting the noncombatants somewhere safe to hide, then we can deal with the dwarves. Okay?