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When Thor steps into the bar this time, he's looking much more normal. (For Earth. Not really for Asgard.) He's in black jeans and workboots, and a sturdy brown jacket over a t-shirt -- borrowed clothes again, but this time they mostly fit, and they're suited to the New Mexico winter he's come from.

Of course, humans feel cold rather more acutely than Asgardians do, but Thor is pretty close to human at this point, like it or not. Anyway, he's used to wearing heavy layers of clothing. The jacket's honestly kind of a comfort.

He also steps up into Milliways, because he thought he was getting into a van.

Milliways is unexpected this time too, but his confusion passes rapidly. (And it's much less existential this time. Half a day and a good meal after his first Milliways entrance, Thor has his feet under him much more solidly.) He heads for the bar, although he's perfectly willing to be flagged down along the way.

[Tinytag: Thor Odinson, Darcy Lewis, Leela]

[OOC: Closed to new threads, sorry!]

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"Most useful," Thor approves.

Slightly vaguely -- it doesn't sound as useful to him as the ability to actually clobber people with that energy, or whatever -- but the sentiment's still genuine. It sounds useful in battle too, which is what Thor's mind will always go to first.

If Thor were a more curious or philosophical person, there would be any number of follow-up questions he could ask at this juncture. But he's Thor, and half his mind is concentrated anyway on the prospect of getting Mjolnir back soon. So this explanation seems to cover all the immediately important stuff to him!

"Sort of. I can ID magic or gods in Milliways, but I can't smell almost anything else. At home I just smell normally, 'cause it's all energy, and if I want to visit Earth, I have to turn human, so then I smell matter the same as any other human.

"Your turn. What is Asgard, exactly?"

"A realm."

The youth didn't seem to recognize basic concepts like Yggdrasil, but on the other hand he's of an unknown people made of energy. It makes it a little hard to calibrate the explanation.

"Far from Earth."

"Another planet, or another dimension?"

He's been around. If he was able to learn about planets and space on top of his world's network structure, he can probably handle cosmic nonads connected by giant trees.

The giant tree is sort of a cosmic metaphor! And sort of not a metaphor at all.

It's complicated.

"A planet," he agrees, "of another sun."

It's one that functions by ~~comic book science~~ somewhat different geographical rules than Earth, but Thor doesn't think to mention that. He doesn't find it weird.

Neither would Enzo, really. His world doesn't even have geography as humans would think of it.

"Any star I'd know?"