Loki nodded slowly. “That works. The other creatures living in Yggdrasil stopped listening to it, told it ‘why should we care what you say? you can’t even defeat two small children’. It made the squirrel mad, so it had to prove it could, too, beat us. But it couldn’t.” It was a good story, the kind of epic thing people would want to believe, especially since it was about Thor.

Father wouldn’t be fooled, for sure. But if the story was good enough he might let it go?