"If the little sister has no wife or mother, or if the brother doesn't?" asked Uriel, trying to cheer Loki up a bit. "Do please think before you speak. And since you have no household that I know of, nor is there anybody to be avenged, I have nothing else to do than annoy you. And as for the being protected part," she added, "well, if that's what got you biting Mictain..."