[Spoken: Lyfrassir]
And the Ratatosk Express launches. Speed readings peak at 250 miles an hour as the the tracks engage, and then the odometer starts to go a little bit strange. Can’t quite figure out how fast it's traveling, or if it’s standing still. External cameras are only black and white, but still give a sense of the shifting, undulating hues inside the Bifrost. The train is underway, and should be out the other side in just under three days. Though there's no one left alive could tell you why.​ 

I watch those opening hours intensely, looking for anyone or anything that might have led to the train’s destruction. For a while I come up empty - plenty of folks seem unhappy to be making the journey, and even Odin seems less than entirely comfortable, spending every waking hour staring through the glass wall of her personal observation carriage. But there’s nothing I can put my finger on as too out of place.​ 

Then I see Loki lurking in one of the locked passenger compartments, and everything starts to make a little bit of sense. Not much sense, of course, because Loki was supposed to be dead already, but before that she'd spent fifteen years working with a Midgardian terrorist cell, so if anyone was behind the Bifrost Incident, it would be her.​ 

On the video feed, she doesn’t look well. Drawn, haggard, she just sits there clutching her head for hours and hours. Hardly the behavior of a ruthless saboteur. Records from before the incident are patchy, but I'm still able to get a copy of her arrest and sentencing report. Execution, apparently carried out as ordered, but there’s something else. Loki used to work on the Bifrost, right at its inception, decades before the incident. Perhaps Odin decided that that expertise was too valuable to lose, and secretly swapped out execution for something that kept her knowledge intact. But even through the grainy playback of the video feed, it’s clear that whatever she did instead messed Loki's head up something awful.​