"Oh." Magnus shakes his head. "No. I knew someone was probably going to die, because I was getting coffee with Samirah -- Alex's sister; our valkyrie -- and one of Thor's goats when she got an alert for a possible heroic-death-in-progress. And then I got back to Valhalla about twenty minutes after Alex arrived... just in time to see exactly how much she'd wrecked everything. Busted up the entryway, her entire room... nearly knocked me flat on my ass... she was a cheetah at the time." He is, of course, smiling blissfully. "But valkyries have -- okay, so it's a kind of camera except it produces moving pictures with sound -- kind of like Shen Yuan's video games but of real things in real life -- so we all watched Alex's death during the feast that night." Magnus had actually been in the very first batch of einherjar to have their deaths recorded. He did not make nearly the same good impression that Alex did. In fact, most people thought he was mistakenly chosen and Sam nearly got fired. He's cool with it now, though.