Oh, man. She was really in the lion’s den, wasn’t she? As the details of the bar manifest, she really regrets waking up that morning … and attending the auction at all now. She hopes that her trust in Loki isn’t misplaced, even if she is still holding some reservations about him. There is a lot she doesn’t know, a lot she can’t account for or predict.

And she never gave any stipulations about the place they would go to. She really can’t complain about the aesthetics of the bar.

“Thanks,” she said, still looking around, but trying not to be obvious about it. “How long have you been in this world?”