"Woden's Valhalla," the first of four stories in this issue, opens with a soliloquy from the protagonist. He tells the reader that he's as good as he is and that he doesn't care what people think of him. He's not a conspiracy theorist, he says, but he does want to know what's going on in the world. He wants to know why people like him so much and why they don't like the fact that he does what he does. He asks the reader to understand that there are gods and there are devils, and that there's a wrong one for everyone. He says he'd like to stop his heart if he looked at him in the wrong way. He also says that if he wanted to know how they're treating Lilia, he wouldn't be able to dream of her. If he wanted how they were treating her, he couldn't think of anyone else who could do what they do. He adds that, even if Lilia is dead, she's still alive because she has seen him do his thing. She's been alone all this time, and she hasn't forgotten who he is. She has already forgotten that he exists. He compares Lilia's absence to the sun's victory over the moon, and says that it's like being queen bitch over a human being. Lilia has been alone for so long that she has forgotten that she exists. She could be a murderer, a cop, a priest, or even a fourteen-year-old girl who died before she was fourteen. The protagonist says that he knows the cop, the priest, and the teenager who died when he was fourteen years old