Chapter 11
"You hustled us out of there in a hurry," Kara said. To my immense relief, in English.
"Raggi was getting heated up, but nothing we couldn't handle," Nilda said. "We had Ingrid's back."
"Yeah, thanks," I said. I felt a little shaky. Although I hadn't been afraid in the moment, now that I was out of that hall it was like my brain was letting in all the stimulus it had blocked out. Those people in there had not liked me in their place. If Raggi had gotten any more angry, things could've gotten ugly in a hurry.
"In future, if you need to come back here for any reason, bring a Thor," Loke said. I could see in his eyes that he was absolutely not joking, and that made my hands shake even more.
"I will," I promised. Then I said, "who was on the phone?"
"Wait, that wasn't a ruse?"
