Again, Mjolner did not follow me into the cavern with the fire. He just lingered at the edge of the light in the cave that lead back to the world above. I only noticed this time because Loke started to hover there, too.
"You"re here for a reason, remember?" I said as I went back to grab both his hands in mine and pull him after me, into the light of the ancestral fire.
Thorbjorn needed no such urging. He was already standing as close as possible to the flames, staring into them as if he, like Kara and I, could see visions in their sparking dance.
"Thorbjorn?" I said.
"It"s nothing," he assured me, but only glanced away from the fire to look at me very briefly before being sucked back into the spectacle of the dancing flames once more. "It is different, isn"t it? I always felt something
