Thor chuckles at that. "Probably," he says. "I should probably be grateful for all the peace and quiet over the last few months, but I've spent so much of my life journeying or fighting that I find sitting idle for as long as we have testing."

Sure, there were long moments at Asgard after a hard-fought battle, or lulls at Jane's place back on Earth, but nothing as long as it had been since their last battle here.