Internet
Atlanta shows me many, many things on “the internet.” From a far-broader version of the “text messaging,” to a “search engine” that can show a mind-boggling amount of variety in information, to a single “website” which stores knowledge as though it were ready meals before a banquet, with all pieces interlocked.
The Midgardians – the mortals – can exchange knowledge and information so quickly and in various ways, unfamiliar to the æsir or other races in the Nine Realms.
Or are they truly unfamiliar about this advancement? It has been a while since the last time I visited anywhere beyond Asgard’s borders, after all, and the other realms have long been dissatisfied with Asgard’s rule in any case. If they are familiar with this way of communication, this way of sharing and displaying knowledge and information….
My stomach roils. The arrival of our ordered food only worsens it.
I am no longer hungry.
How can I think of eating, now, anyway? Asgard might be invaded by another realm – or all of them combined – in any time, and it will not be prepared for a new kind of warfare! To think that I wanted to smuggle some frost giants to disrupt Thor’s coronation….