022: An Increasingly Erratic Behavior

"Loki was impregnated by the stallion's foal and he later gave birth to Sleipnir, a gray, eight-legged horse,"

"Why? I thought men do not get pregnant," the boy with a missing tooth frowned at Ophelia from the floor.

"Isn't it rather absurd?" Another asked and then a series of questions started trooping in from the kids who were seated over the floor, and Ophelia didn't know which one to give a response to.

She closed the book and raised her hand to gain silence.

"Calm down, kids, as I have read you, Loki was a trickster god."

"And a man-" provided a girl who was stabbing her fingers into her nostrils and peeking for boogers.

"-who could change his gender and species with ease. I told you he shapeshifted into a female horse earlier," Ophelia explained and the perplexed and rowdy-looking children quieted down.

"Sleipnir ultimately belonged to Odin right after its birth."

"Why?" A few were interested enough to ask.

"Being the best horse amongst gods and men, Loki gifted Odin, which expla