If that weren’t horrifying enough, Loki, the silver-tongued trickster god who recently escaped his poison-soaked prison, is the ship’s captain. As big as a battleship, it’s manned by giants, monsters, and zombie warriors called draugr, and constructed completely out of the fingernails and toenails of dead people. His destination is Naglfar, the Ship of Nails, also known as the Ship of the Dead. The high-dive training-instruction courtesy of his cousin Annabeth’s boyfriend, Percy Jackson-is necessary if he’s going to survive his upcoming overseas voyage. Unfortunately, he’s stuck with option one. So, given the choice between repeatedly jumping from the yardarm of Old Ironsides into Boston Harbor and hanging out in his comfy room in Hotel Valhalla? Well, three guesses which he’d go for. Ever since he fell off the Longfellow Bridge into the Charles River and died, Magnus Chase has had a thing against falling from great heights into water.
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