I strolled through the lingerie section, getting a strange look from a saleslady, then dove into the activewear rack and popped out the other side into one of the Hotel Valhalla’s game rooms. Every time I mentioned Forever 21, he would launch into a rant about how his fashions were much better. My dwarf friend Blitzen especially hated that entrance. Personally, I thought the location might be one of Odin’s little jokes, since a lot of his einherjar were literally forever twenty-one, or sixteen, or sixty. Some speculated it was left over from a time when the building was not a retail store. Nobody in Valhalla could explain to me why we had a gateway in Forever 21. It normally wasn’t the entrance I liked to use, but it was the closest to Uncle Randolph’s mansion. The legends don’t mention that one of those entrances is in the Forever 21 store on Newbury Street, just behind the women’s activewear rack. LEGENDS TELL US that Valhalla has 540 doors, conveniently distributed across the Nine Worlds for easy access. We’ll catch up with you somewhere along the way!”īefore I could ask what he meant by that, Alex turned into a flamingo and launched himself into the sky, making it a banner day for Boston bird-watchers. Speaking of which, have you warned the others about-?” “You want me to come with you?”Īlex frowned. Maybe we could read some of Randolph’s old paperbacks.
I wanted to stay there on that deck with Alex and watch the afternoon sunlight change the color of the river from blue to amber. She’s not going to be happy about leaving.” I’d better go bust Samirah out of school. I wasn’t a big fan of right now.Īlex kept reading. But there was a big difference between soon and right now.
We had to leave soon in order to reach Loki’s ship before Midsummer. Of course, I’d known we were running out of time. He unfolded the letter and began to read, the corner of his mouth starting to twitch again. It wouldn’t have been my chosen career, but hey, no judgment.Īlex cracked open the pellet. Ravens have a natural ability to regurgitate inedible substances like bones and fur, so they have no qualms about swallowing a message capsule, flying it across the Nine Worlds, and vomiting it to the correct recipient. Yes, our ravens deliver messages via barf-mail. They have a vicious bite.) The bird hopped on his wrist, barfed up a hard pellet the size of a pecan right into Alex’s palm, and then flew away, its mission accomplished.
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