"Help is nice. With what? Wild animals? Things to stay warm?'

"I can do things to stay warm! A friend taught me how to do it with magic."

"Okay. How?"

"I just need something that you want to be warm, and then I attach some magic to it and it'll be warm all the time for you. A rock is fine."

She finds a rock and hands it to her.

And Loki puts a warmth song in the rock and hands it back.

"Why is it making that noise, is there a demon in it?"

"No, the noise is doing the magic. It's just a song sung very fast."

"Who's singing the song? It doesn't sound like a song."

"It sounds different because it's so fast. The rock wouldn't stay warm all the time if it were slowed down, because it takes half the song to start working. I learned to make songs sing themselves. It's not very useful unless the song is magic, so I got some people to teach me magic songs."

"Okay," she says, and holds the magic rock close. "Thank you."

"You're welcome! Do you want more warm rocks or is one enough?"

"More would be good, but they might make people nervous. And if they are demons then they might escape and kill us all."

"There are no demons in the rock. Just songs. Do you meet demons, when you're wandering around?"

"No. We would be dead. I know stories, though."

"Where'd you hear the stories?"

"From other people we run into. They say 'don't go that way, there are demons'."

"Which way is it that there are demons? Maybe I can make the demons go away for you."

"Across the hills," she says, "by the big lake, and in the forest. All very far away."

"Thank you. Would you like a singing rock that does healing, in case any of them ever wander this way and you get hurt?"

They would love one of those.

So she makes them one! They... probably couldn't use any other kinds of singing rocks, let alone defend them. Would any of them like a math lesson? Covering the concept of "counting past ten"?

They're all rather intrigued by now, and happy to sit around and give it a try.