Whatever questions I had, I no longer have them. This will not happen again. I would promise it, but I realize how little worth my words hold to most. Still.

I am going to die, Angela.

[His gaze meets her own finally, resolute and determined. And then something shifts, and he smiles.]

Still that's no reason not to get into any mischief here. Especially when I have the firstborn of Odin here to defend me no matter what!