Reaping What You Sow

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"I'll give you the most reasonable explanation," Kirk said gravely. "Loki is already Asgard's chief of defense. In other words, he's second only to Odin. So there's only one explanation for his panicked retreat just now: Odin was rushing over. Think about it. If he saw eight hundred mortal enemies of the gods on the Isle of the Divine Prison, with Loki, the chief of defense, right there on the scene, what would he think?"

"He'd think Loki had colluded with the Giants!" Tyr said indignantly. "Which is the truth! Father God Odin will punish him for it!"

"Loki's clever," Kirk said. "His way of making amends was to leave the island first, then pretend he'd rushed over with the Giant Wolf and Giant Snake. Finally, he'd accuse us of being in league with the Giants and of having brought them into Asgard! Since we really are intruders who came here uninvited, that story might at least fool a few people."

"Would it hold up to scrutiny?" Wang Han sneered. "What about the fact that we fought the Giants to the death?"

Kirk smiled. "A dispute over the spoils, a conflict of interest, pretending to turn on them—what excuse couldn't he make? The Giants wouldn't be around to argue with the gods anyway, so Loki could just go with the flow and provoke a war. The Giants and us would all be killed by the gods, leaving no witnesses. He'd be in the clear."

"Damn! That's despicable!" Thor cried, not the sharpest tool in the shed. "Then why are we running away?"

Brunhilde tapped her brother on the head. "You idiot! If we run away, Loki won't have anything to use to frame us. He's Asgard's