Sometimes the best way to keep people busy, and to see who they are, is to give them something to be busy with.

X does not explain, but then maybe she can tell that Loki likes to figure some things out himself.

And then they are in the Microverse, drifting through space and landing on Homeworld, a series of planetoids orbiting twin suns.

It is the easiest place from which to access Earth. Obviously.