Winter Olympics
“It is just a story, Loki,” Atlanta writes, with palpable exasperation. Then she rummages in one of her drawers, feeds a thin disk into a boxy devise that lies beneath her television set, and plays a recording of… not a play, it seems, but some kind of sporting event.
No. Sporting event after sporting event. Held on the ice. So many. Shown through snippets of – presumably – their best moments. Attended so enthusiastically by both competitors and audience.
And Atlanta claims that this series of sporting events, the “winter olympics,” is held regularly, participated by nearly all countries on Midgard that experience wintertime.
“We are cautious of winter. But even summer can kill if we are not prepared. Now that we are much more advanced, we relish in winter even more,” she continues at the end of the recording. “Lewis got some of the inspiration for The Chronicles of Narnia from old tales which put much caution on winter. Similar to Tolkien’s Arda Legendarium.” She pats the books that I have not yet read. “But even in those series, winter and cold weathers are not always bad.”
She quirks a smile, then. “My most favourite foods used to be winter foods.”