"Perhaps nothing more than I am doing now," Frigga admits, although she is uncertain Tara understands how much she needs this time where she need not be the strong one, so when it passes she has the strength she needs for her family. "Sheltering and protecting you when you are vulnerable and everything is too much."

What she says next is weightier, solid as the foundations of Asgard. "Yet I give you my promise, Tara, I will protect your sons as I would have my own when they were young." She does not know what it is about this family, but they are under her protection, and will remain so as long as she and they are in Darrow.