Gunnar closed his eyes and slept for a few minutes while Odin held him in his arms. Then Gunnar awoke.
He smiled at Jack Odin and murmured:
“To awake on the sea of the stars—”
Jack Odin had heard Gunnar sing those words before. They belonged to an old Norse lullaby that Gunnar’s mother had crooned to him when he was a little boy.
Then Gunnar died.
And Odin knelt over him, tears streaming down his broken face.