"So they dictate your sex-life as well, do they. Why am I not surprised?"

He lying might still be terrible in his opinion, but at least she had learned to respond to verbal clues. She wasn't nearly as good at it as Odin, but then she hadn't been playing grifts with him for centuries either.

"Now we should find you and the baby something healthy to eat." He nodded towards the table. "I'm afraid the choice doesn't look promising, though. It's mostly meat and all of it too fat."