[Thor nods, and offers her the scrap metal to investigate if she wants to.]

Tony Stark, yes, who is Pepper's love. He is also a companion of mine, in battle.

[He sticks the metal rod back into the ground, sticking up straight, at the edge of the dead zone. She can enchant it if she likes-- there's certainly more where it came from, though.]

It began at nearly half this size, when I began watching it. Now I would call it half a mile across, slightly less.