"No, they don't have speed limits, but they've been thinking up ways to make them ever faster lately. The good old wooden skis we had in the old days weren't nearly as fast as these modern high tech monstrosities." Not that Loki didn't enjoy them. "Rougher surface, blunter sides, more friction, you see. No reason why you couldn't make slow skis for kids. It'd probably be a lot easier and cheaper actually."

He stopped to think for a moment. Somewhere he'd gotten side-tracked. He hadn't meant to go on about skis.

"And Bran will be a pretty tough kid with all those influences. You shouldn't spoil that by coddling him."