Four warriors stopped moving.
Not combat-frozen — physiologically functional, consciously present, but the instinctive motor response that allowed continuous motion in dangerous environments had received a threat assessment that said this is beyond the category of things that continuing to move will address and had responded accordingly.
The other ten kept moving, the specific ten who had been selected in part because Loki had assessed their ability to function under exactly this quality of environmental pressure.
Loki didn't freeze.
He took three steps into the clearing and stopped because stopping was the right tactical choice, not because his body had made the choice for him.
