There is still magic to be found. Even in the bleakest of places.<br><br>Hank Goodenough has spent his entire life in the smoggy streets of London trying to keep his head down and not to get noticed. Not an easy feat when you’re the tallest one in the room and have a brass funnel protruding from your head. When he finds himself laid off work once again, his dad wants to drag him away on a crazy quest. Before he can figure out how to get out of it, he finds himself on a steam-driven airship in search of Odin, the old Norse God, and is sharing a room with Captain Elazar Steel, a man strutting around on one high-heeled boot and one peg leg.<br><br>Steel doesn’t care that the winks, smiles, and small touches he and Hank share might get them hanged once they land on the ground again. He is determined to show Hank there is magic in the world and that there is no better place to be than on his balloon ship steering towards the Arctic Circle.

Eight Feet of Magic

“Yes, I know, but your dad said you’d work off what he owes me, and I think it will take a lifetime.”


Steel pulled him down for another kiss. “I’ll let you off anytime you want.”


Hank was about to say he didn’t want to be let off when a roar rolled over the night sky. A cloud of grey smoke erased the stars and Hank flew to his feet.Steam and Bronze Horses


Odin, the All-Father, sacrificed one of his eyes in the well of knowledge to become all-knowing. As the All-Father he’s also the Yule Father, and by the end of Yule, the Night of the Mothers is celebrated to honour the ancestral mothers.


Chapter 20