Chapter 26
I suppose the plan in my head, if I had even had one, had been to walk with my head down, sadly dragging my feet, all the way through Villmark and down the hill to Runde. Like a defeated and depressed character in a cartoon.
But the minute I stepped out of the council hall and the doors slammed shut behind me with a shattering air of finality, I saw I wasn't alone. Loke was leaning against the fence across the street, apparently waiting for me to come out. And in his arms was Mjolner.
"Hey, you two!" I cried as Mjolner jumped from Loke's grasp to wind back and forth around my ankles. "This is nice, to see you both. It's a welcome reminder that no matter which place I'm in, I can always rely on the company of my two fellow world-hoppers."
"That bad, huh?" Loke said.
"Yeah,"
