A system with twelve inhabitable planets is a rarity, and Thor is suitably impressed. The rest of her story is equally compelling, and he listens attentively, all the more curious about her chosen home. He's seen humans of a thousand years ago, and has a fair idea how far they've come in those few centuries. But it sounds like the Midgardians of her era have regressed, if anything, after the war that she says ravaged the planet.

There's a phrase in there that grabs his attention more than any other, however, so he asks about that first. "The same kind of Earth? There is another?"

Despite the summer heat outside, the warmth of the mug is welcome against his hands, and he takes a deeper draft of the chocolatey beverage. "Not as you might know it," he says, hoping that his experiences trying to teach Jane about Asgard will prove helpful here too. "Studies of creatures throughout the realms and beyond are well-recorded, and taught to children as basic education; any specialized knowledge is studied only by those who need it. Like goat herders, or gardeners. Or warriors," he adds, because it definitely helps to know where to strike when you're fighting fire demons or Vrellnexians and so on.

Speaking of Asgard in the past tense is still so strange, and her question reminds him that even birds and beasts were not spared Ragnarok. "The usual. Horses, oxen, birds, snakes, that sort of thing. Trees and flowers of all sorts, well tended and chosen for their beauty, and herbs for the cooks and healers' halls. Most were imported from Vanaheim, or descended from those brought from Midgard centuries ago."