Shadow: What are you looking at up there?

Zorya: I was looking at that. See?

Shadow: The big dipper?

Zorya: Odin's Wain, they call it. And the Great Bear. It is a thing. It's not a god. Like a god. It's a bad thing. Chained up in those stars. If it escapes, it will eat the whole of everything. So we watch the sky all day, all night, the three sisters. If he escapes, the thing in the stars, the world is over. Like that.

Shadow: And people believe that?

Zorya: A long time ago.

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