"That sounds nice. Must be enormous, though." Enough books and enough food? She hadn't known there was a house big enough for both. And just as she's settling into a playful mood and banter with him, his expression changes and his smile disappears. She's not sure what she said to warrant such a thing. The story she'd read had been in a children's book, and it was simply that Loki had turned himself into a horse to distract a stallion from building a wall. Whatever he thought she was talking about was obviously something upsetting to him, and so she decided asking him about it would only make things worse.

Nodding, she answered quietly. "My lips are sealed." His voice was low and grumbly, the version she'd come to refer to her her mind as his 'thunder voice'. She'd rarely heard him direct it towards her, and she didn't like it. Time for a subject change.

"So that's the village? How many buildings are there total?"