Thor was the sort who pulled an item out of the package and immediately tossed away the instructions. Thor wasn't one to fret over the details; he preferred to learn as he did.

He really was trying to make an effort to learn properly now, though. If only because he could imagine how, precisely, things could be messed up worse if they went wrong.

Things had already been pretty bad before Corbie came around with her wards.

"For once," he says, directing a newly-warmed finger at Loki, "I'm trying to follow the book."