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This is a mausoleum in New Asgard. It reveres Odin's memory-alas, there's no body in it, for Odin's body disintegrated when he died in this very place not too long ago. He was many centuries old. Most adult Aesir are.

It's late at night. There's no moon out. Korg has finished his patrol around Odin's mausoleum. He takes up his mace, and marches off, muttering exactly what's on his mind.

It's dark inside the mausoleum. And there IS a body in Odin's casket. It conjured itself inside after the mausoleum's construction was completed. Alas, the casket is sealed shut with many spells, and cannot be opened.

From the ceiling, a blue rod of light appears to spotlight the casket. Alas, as I said, there's no moon. And this is no night of a blue moon. Only a few native Norwegians who were evicted, due to the Aesir's need to colonize this place, would know that glow as the one the Space Stone emitted back when the Tesseract was kept safe here for so many centuries following the Jotunns' invasion of Midgard.

Behind the casket, someone in a black robe can be seen. And the blue light shuts itself off in a flash.

This is the doorway to the mausoleum. A robed figure appears in it. Is it the Grim Reaper? Is it a dementor from Harry Potter?

He takes off his hood and looks around. His head is a red skull...with sinister eyes an internal tissue expressing his sentience.

The Red Skull's been gone for a long time. And after over half a century of keeping the Soul Stone safe on Vormir, he is without purpose.

Lest Thanos gives up the Soul Stone and puts it back where he found it. Which he won't, of course...