Loki

Normally Loki ignored her, but this morning he smiled at her and greeted her.
"Idunn! So good to see you! I feel age upon me," said told her. "I need to taste one of your apples."
"You do not look as if you are ageing," she said.
"I hide it well," said Loki. "Oh! My aching back. Old age is a terrible thing, Idunn."
Idunn opened her ash-wood box and gave Loki a golden apple.
He ate it with enthusiasm, devouring it, seeds and all. Then he made a face.
"Oh dear," he said. I thought you'd have, well, nicer apples than this."
"What a peculiar thing to say," said idunn. Never before had her apples been received like this. Normally gods talked only about the perfection of the flavour and how good it was to feel young again. "Loki, they are the apples of the gods. The apples of immortality."
Loki looked unconvinced. "Perhaps," he said. "But I saw some apples in the forest that were finer in every way than your apples. Looked nicer, smelled nicer, tasted nicer than these. I think they were apples of immortality too. Perhaps a better kind of immortality than yours."
He watched xpressions chasing each other across Idunn's face—disbelief, puzzlement, and concern.
"These are the only apples like this that there are," she said.
Loki shrugged. "I'm just telling you what I saw," he said.
Idunn walked beside him. "Where are these apples?" she asked.
"Over there. Not sure I could tell you how to get there, but I could you through the forest. It's not a long walk."
She nodded.
"But when we see the apple tree," said Loki, "how will we be able to compare those apples to the ones in your ash box back in Asgard? I mean, I could say, they are even better than your apples, and you would say, nonsense, Loki, these are shrivelled crab apples compared to my apples, and how could we tell?"
"Don't be silly," said Idunn. "I will bring my apples. We will compare them."
"Oh," said Loki. "What a clever idea. Well, then. Let's go."

[...]

They walked up to the top of the hill. "There i no apple tree here," said Idunn. "Only that tall pine, with the eagle in it."
"Is that an eagle?" asked Loki. "It's very big."

[...]

It seized Idunn in one taloned claw and the ash-wood box of apples in the other, and it rose into the sky above Asgard and was gone.
"So that's who that was," said Loki to himself. "I knew it wasn't just an eagle." And he made his way hgome, hoping vaguely that nobody would notice that Idunn and her apples were gone, pr that if they did, it would be long after anyone would connect her disappearabce with Loki taking Idunn into the forest.