As always, she took Botros' comments seriously--even if it was a 'good job.' It made her feel all warm inside. He was like warm cookies on a cold winter day. Heh.

Underlining a few of the runes she had written down on her parchment, Beverly considered the following question. Her dad and Kennedy often had heated discussions concerning runes and the like and she sometimes joined for the fun of it. This had been one of their discussions at some point a while back.

"One of his famous tricks is the death of Balder," she said after raising her hand. "He took advantage when he heard from Frigg that all things had sworn not to harm Balder except the mistletoe because Frigg didn't find it harmful. Loki then tricked a blind god to throw the branch of a mistletoe, which ended up piercing through Balder and killing him." Quite cunning, that Loki.