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[Without any fuss at all, a small, nicely engraved sign appears outside of House 21. Translated, it reads: Little Bird Detective Agency.

Who knows if Odin can even see him here, but orders are orders, so Loki will continue to seek out evil spirits living among humans. He'd been hoping to get home before this, but he can't ignore his job forever...

But he's not really expecting requests to start flooding in, so Loki goes about business as usual. In the morning, he'll be hanging around the plaza and feeding some crows... They make much better company than pigeons, after all. And they can talk here, which is all the better! ... Though today in particular, he'll be sitting rather quietly with one perched on his head.

Around noon, he'll be in the bakery, staring at the selection of sweets with a bit of glaze to his eye. In the afternoon, he'll be cheerfully carrying an overly large cake back to the house. It's clearly too big for him to eat by himself, but it's okay if he has people to share it with, right? Never mind if it's difficult to maneuver around anything that might come his way...

In the evening, he'll feel a bit talkative.]

What did people do for entertainment back in your world? It's much too quiet around here. [He has yet to go through any experiments, so his life here has been dull thus far.]

Back in mine, lots of people liked to watch "television" on a "television set". Simply, it's an electric-powered box that can receive moving images broadcast through radio signals. People would be able to watch shows and get the news in their homes with it.

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Wonderful creatures, hm? Not like the kind of creatures you see around here?

Well, a little. Most animals could talk, but they weren't so. . . [disappointingly air-headed]silly as ones here. And there were naiads and dryads and gryphons and dwarfs and centaurs and fauns too.

So Narnia is in... Greece.

No. . . At least, I don't think so. It's another world. I found it for the first time in the back of a wardrobe.

How strange... Now I'm wishing I could see this, myself.

Where do you come from. . .? Sorry, but I didn't catch your name. I'm Lucy.

Ah, I'm Loki. Nice to meet you.

I suppose I'm living in Japan at the moment, but I've spent more time in Scandinavia. And you?

I live in England, and that's where I was born, but I've spent more time in Narnia. Rather like you, I suppose, but with different places.

You like Narnia better than England, then? Your parents must have trouble keeping track of you.

It's quite strange, actually. Narnian time works differently--we can be there for years and years and not a minute will have passed at home. My parents never knew about it.

[And she'd rather it stay that way. The explanations would be very long and difficult and probably not worth the trouble.]

But when you stay in Narnia for extended periods of time, you age at the same pace as you would in Britain?

That's right. [It was a shock, going from twenty-three years old to eight again.]

I'd advise you to be careful about living out a second life without your parents' knowledge. If something were to happen to you in Narnia, your parents might never know what happened to you.

[She thinks that over a little bit. It sounds like something Susan would say.]

Though. . . I don't think anything terrible could happen in Narnia, not as long as we keep faith in Aslan.

[To Lucy, it's always been that simple.]

And the strange thing was--and you'll probably think I'm an awful person for saying it--that we forgot everything about England the first time. Even our parents.

Humans are easily captivated by the magical world, so I doubt any of you were personally to blame.

Aslan? Is that like a deity?

Yes, I suppose. In a way.

[And probably in more than just "a way," but there are some things about Aslan she still hasn't quite sorted out yet and that she probably never will.]

He's a lion, but not just any lion. He's the High King over all High Kings in Narnia, and he was the one who created it.

Where did he come from before there was a Narnia, then?

Over the sea, I suppose, from his Country.

You're not frightened by him?

A little bit. But it's a good sort of fear, almost.

A reasonable feeling. Lions are wild animals, even if they seem tame.

That's exactly it. He's not a tame lion.

[It's cliche, probably, but true.]

No matter how powerful or transcendent an entity is, it's curious to see how their personality is shaped by physical being.

Is it? I didn't know that that sort of thing mattered.

Maybe it doesn't, but how often do you hear about squirrel gods of destruction or pigs of infinite wisdom? A curve ball would be nice every now and then.