Auden’s Blessing
Even when it snowed, the temperature never dropped below zero.
As for present-day Asgard, not only was there no sunlight, it was winter all year round, and the temperature never rose above freezing. Geographically, we were at a disadvantage. But precisely because of the extreme cold, the possibility of Asgard being occupied by the Vanir was almost zero—an ordinary Vanir would lose all feeling in their ears after just twenty minutes here, frozen to the point where even cutting them off with a knife would cause no sensation.