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"Well, uh, the invisibility and the teleport and the illusions and the healing, those are Loki's spells."

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"...wow, OK." She's gonna have to take a second to process this. Second up. "I guess I'm gonna be a Norse pagan after all then. 'Cept I can just follow Loki and not have to go through my dad anymore."

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The social worker shrugs helplessly. "All right. Asgard doesn't take immigrants, I don't think, but Loki spends most of her time on Vanda Nossëo's capital planet and on Jotunheim and they both do."

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"What do I have to do to get Loki to make me a wizard? Also does Loki want human sacrifices, and can Loki ask the other gods if they do."

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"Loki most definitely does not want human sacrifices. Would that be a useful thing for her to come tell all of Scandanavia? She runs Vanda Nossëo, this is what she wants people to be doing." She gestures around the room. "Being immortal and modernizing everywhere. During the Ascension War she had a bunch of humans she protected and tutored and she definitely didn't teach them any human-sacrificing. And she looks out for orcs. And front-giants."

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"...so you're, like, all Norse pagans. You should tell the Scandinavian Norse pagans all that."

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" - I don't know if we are. We don't worship Loki we just, ah, are aware that she exists and controls all of space within a hop of Edda at will, and we think very highly of her and pursue her priorities because they are just and good priorities."

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"That's the same thing, though."

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"Maybe so. I will make a note for Loki that she might consider coming to speak with the people of your world, and for the volunteers there that they can drop her name."

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She is totally gonna tell everybody that she found the gods and they gave her a divine revelation as to what their current priorities are. "OK. Sounds good."

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"And we can find some Catholics to talk to your aunt, if that'd be helpful."

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"I guess. She's lonely and stuff. Why d'you bother having Catholics if you have gods that make you into wizards?"

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"Well, some people are still Catholic even given that, probably because they conclude Loki is just an astonishingly powerful person and not a god, and Loki would definitely not want us to make them stop being Catholic."

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"Astonishingly powerful people and gods are the same thing. Unless you mean astonishingly powerful like my dad, 'cause he's only astonishingly powerful because he's the emperor. But if you can turn other people into wizards so they can heal people and teleport and turn invisible, then that means you're a god."

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"I think Catholics disagree on that, though I am not a Catholic so I could be wrong."

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"I guess I could ask my aunt."

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"That sounds like a good idea. Do you think the Emperor would agree to encourage all of his children to emigrate with his concubines to live in Loki's service on Vanda Nossëo's capital?"

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"...no? But I guess maybe I could tell him that I want to get in good with the gods for him, he might buy that."

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"Okay. Are you, or your aunt, or your siblings, in danger right now? Is there a significant chance the Emperor will hurt or kill any of you before we can next talk?"

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"He might hit me for saying I was gonna go beat up the baker's son. Or maybe he'll give me a really long lecture, he likes really long lectures more. S'not any danger either way, though."

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"Okay. Has anyone in the emperor's palace tried to convince you to touch them naked, or to touch you in a way that bothered you, or tried to kiss you?"

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"You can't go kissing princesses if they're not yours, you'll get in trouble. Also if someone kissed me I'd probably punch them."

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"Good for you. If you do not come back here within a week, is it okay with you if I go try to find you and make sure you're safe and okay?"

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"Yeah. But you should do it invisible so that the guards don't see you and mess things up."

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"Gotcha. Do I have permission to tell other people about this situation of yours, or would you like me to keep it a secret? If I tell people they can help, but I won't tell people if you would like me not to."

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