"I think the tales about Loki came about to explain why the world is so much less than perfect and fair," Teja says, "and even the gods not all-powerful. He was set up by the story-tellers to take the blame, like the scape-goat of the Jewish and Christian tradition. Those stories were set to ever go that way."

Pause.

"Apart, of course, from those worlds where Loki is real. I have met Weyland the Smith, and Ska­­ði, in this place; so you should not be amazed to meet Loki some day, and perhaps not 'fangirl' him too much, as those from the future call it."