Meanwhile.
Coulson, who had returned, asked Ward, "Did you know there's a Mount Thor on Baffin Island?"
"No."
Coulson went on, "Do you know what Mount Thor doesn't have?"
"Not the slightest connection to Asgard. Our agents over there didn't find anything."
Coulson looked at Skye then. "What did you find on your end?"
Skye looked at the information she had found online and said, "The message boards on the Nystrom dark web are full of lunatics. They're convinced they're going to ascend and become gods of death and destruction."
"They're all bird-brains, sir."
Ward looked at Skye. "That's your progress? 'They're all bird-brains'?"
Skye nodded. "These people really do suck."
"Also, they're talking about going underground."
Ward explained to Coulson beside him, "That could mean going off the grid, or..."
Coulson said, "Or looking for the next piece of the staff."
Ward said, "Professor Randolph suggested searching along the Viking routes. Anything else?"
Skye said, "There are some ruins along the Volga River in Russia, some in Kiev too. Strangely enough, there are also some here."
As she spoke, Skye pointed at Seville on the screen—the place right beneath their team's feet.
Looking at the spot Skye indicated, Coulson said in surprise, "In Seville, Spain?"
"It's less likely, but the Vikings did sack Seville twice."
At that moment, Mei came over with Killer B and said, "We found a possible site with Viking ruins: Aldovino."
"A church built over the ruins of an eighth-century crypt, and before that, it was a Roman site from 206 BC."
Hearing this, Ward immediately thought of the verse Professor Randolph had mentioned. "East of the river, there are many bones."
Coulson nodded. "Let's see what we can find."
"Move out!"
Before long, everyone drove to the church. Ward and Skye then took