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calling me Vivian instead of Vervain. The friendly and helpful(by that I mean, rude and unaccommodating) people of the DMV were constantly trying to correct the typos in my name. Yes, my name is actually Vervain Alexandrite Lavine. No, not Vivian Alexandra. Yes, I know it's strange, it's my name. No, I don't want to change it to make your life easier. Could you please just print up my driver's license?
    “ I told you,” he smirked at me and tapped his one eye. “I see all.”
    “ You perv.”
    “ I beg your pardon?”
    “ You should, you big perverted Santa Claus.” I glared at him. “You better not have ever watched me in the shower.”
    “ Vervain!”
    “ Okay, okay,” I sighed but inside, I was giggling. Odin could actually be fun. Who knew? “Tell me about the Disney Channel.”
    “ Animal Planet,” he sighed right back. “There was this show where they follow some poor creature around, filming its life but not interfering.”
    “ They call that reality TV,” I patted his head like he was slow. “Was it the cooking one or the sewing one? There's lots more but those are the really good ones. Oh, I do like the ghost hunting ones too. There's one with this really buff host who always ends up screaming like a little girl in pigtails. Oh yeah and there's a new Southern version of it with guys who look like they're in ZZ Top going around saying things like My ghost radar is goin off like a buck in ruttin season .”
    “ How does anyone finish a conversation with you?” He looked truly baffled. “It's an animal show. I told you it was called Saved by the Lioness. Are you doing this to torture me or do you find this subject completely boring?”
    “ I'm sorry,” I let one little giggle out and he shook his head at me. “Go ahead. I just have to say first that I hate those shows. They follow an animal around and when it gets into trouble, they're all like Oh this poor zebra is gonna drown but we can't help it because that would be interfering , how messed up is that? You know that zebra is like Hey, a little help here? You've been filming me all day but you can't even toss me a rope? ”
    “ I quite agree,” he patted my head. “Now shut up. This particular show was following a baby wildebeest around and it got lost from its mother.”
    “ See, I'm already depressed.”
    “ If you would allow me to continue?”
    “ Sorry.”
    “ In the process of trying to make its way back to its mother, it got surrounded by a pack of hyenas.” He narrowed his eyes when I made a face at him so I kept quiet. “It looked as if the show was going to be quite a short one but along comes this lioness and she saves the little wildebeest from the hyenas.”
    “ Not,” I said, dumbstruck.
    “ Yes, indeed.” Odin looked thrilled to be finally impressing me. “She ran off the hyenas, and the baby, who was too young to know that it should fear this predator, followed her and cuddled with her a bit before he went on his way.”
    “ That's amazing.”
    “ Yes, but what does it say to you, Lion Queen?”
    “ That a lioness can show compassion.”
    “ Exactly,” he nodded like he was a professor and I, his worst but somehow finally cogitating, student. “It isn't simply compassion though. She shows mercy to an animal she would normally hunt. She has compassion for her prey. Just because your lioness has personal views on who she believes you should be with, it doesn't mean she has no understanding of love, or sympathy for your views. Give her some respect and maybe she will help you with your hyenas. Metaphorically speaking.”
    “ Wow,” I frowned, fighting the urge to make another Santa joke. “That's kind of beautiful and really insightful. Thank you.”
    “ Of course,” he reached over and took my hand.
    “ Well isn’t this sweet?” Thor was suddenly standing over us, glaring at our joined hands. What the hell was he doing here? “Is this why I saw Trevor stomping off?”
    Odin started to get up and I