The Fear Lords meet in a sub-basement of the Infinite Embassy but Nightmare is absent; this is significant later….
In Broxton, Loki introduces Leah to the joys of milkshakes at a soda shop. A bully picks a fight and Leah hurls him through the shop window. Loki takes the blame before the All-Mother….
In Poland, Daimon Hellstrom, the Son of Satan, discovers a girl suffering, possessed by Fear but she dies before he can exorcize it. Later he casts a spell to uncover the source of the horror and the signs point directly to Broxton, Oklahoma….
Loki has nightmares of himself killing Thor and falling into the clutches of the Disir. He goes out with Ikol to the ruins of the Serpent’s Asgard to search for the source of his fears. There he encounters Daimon Hellstrom who attacks with his full fury….