From Asgard,
Thor speaks to Captain America (Sam Wilson) in the Impossible City. Sam Cap tells
Thor not to worry about the accusations of murder against him (last issue) but
to stick with the team when he’s on Midgard. Thor, meanwhile, has other
pressing business…
…as he calls a
meeting of all Odin’s children: Angela, Laussa, Hermod, Loki, Balder the Brave,
Honir the Hunter, and Vidar Giant’s-Child. Balder asks the reason for the
meeting; Thor tells him not all of the Odinspawn are there. Then Bragi the poet
arrives and takes over the narration of the story from Loki, dismissing the God
of Stories as a liar. It is Bragi who calls up the god who owns the Hall they
are meeting in: Ullr the Wanderer. And Bragi raises the question Thor called
the meeting to address: Where is Tyr? Not even Sif can find him. But Ullr can
and he challenges the others to walk through the fire with him. They step
through…
…to the world
of the In-Betweener, a realm of Skinner Boxes. Bragi describes the nature of their
quest, which ends by pointing at Loki…who confesses he put Tyr into a box here.
He defends his action by informing them that Tyr was up to some sort of villainy
so he needed to protect Asgard. Angela cannot sniff Tyr out and Honir detects
two tracks. Thor chooses Loki, Angela, and Balder to follow up the one trail while
the others pursue Honir’s other track, knowing that Loki and Bragi can
communicate across the distance. Thor’s team takes off. Hermod asks Vidar to
hold Laussa while he enters a box. It’s bigger on the inside yet Hermod
immediately spies Tyr, sitting in a meditative position with a glowing, clawed
left hand….