The
morning after his tryst with Amora the Enchantress, Thor broods on his newfound
mortality, his distrust of Amora, and his fear that she really cares. They talk
about their earliest encounters when she was one of the Masters of Evil yet she
claims she never hated him, because he always did what he thought was right.
She confesses that her motives in bringing him to her home were selfish and
they both admit they are lonely….
Meanwhile,
Detective Inspector Curzon frustrated that his first American case should be so
weird. Evidence from the radioactive emissions from Mjolnir shows Thor was on
the roof with the dead warriors and likely was the one who killed them. To
understand the World-Ash which seems to play an important role in the case he
spends several pages reading various reference books on Norse mythology. He
concludes that someone has used the World Ash a/k/a Yggdrasil to kill Thor. The
tree controls all of history until Ragnarök after which it births the next race
of humans. So if Thor is dead, something has convinced the World Ash that
Ragnarök has already happened….
Thor
and Amora awaken, he dresses in the bare-chested outfit she has had her servant
obtain. He intends to return to the machine torturing the Yggdrasil to learn
who is slowly convincing the Tree that Thor is dead and therefore trying to
erase him from existence….