Uriel simply couldn't hold back the tears that burst out as she listened to Loki's tale. "How can you still call Odin your brother?" she blurted out. Her motherly instincts may have had little time to develope, but even in such a short time she had become very attached to her yet-to-be-born child. To think that somebody could lose five already born children, and in such horrible ways, too...

She shivered, taking a step away from Loki and placing one hand protectively over her still perfectly flat stomach without even fully realizing that she was doing such things. Tears streamed down her face as she thought about the horrible fates of Loki's children. How could Odin have done something like that? She'd thought he cared about Loki!

...He wouldn't do anything like that to her child... would he?