i'll be your hope, i'll be your love, be everything that you need.
Appearing in a bright crackle of light, the goddess sat atop her shrine, peering down at Sam with inscrutable blue eyes. Rather than making small talk or forcing Sam to sit in silence, instead her eyes dipped towards his hand.
"Explain this to me, Samuel. I give you a gift, and I give you a choice. Rather than keep my gift and accept the constraints of my choice, you instead allow your fingers to be cut off in service of the Grounders. The Grounders whom I gave you a way to protect. You argued against the want of your family in protecting them, putting more lives at risk, only to tear out the part of you I made especially for your needs, so that what? Their gods, who actively work against us, can do what you wouldn't do?"
"Explain this to me, Samuel. I give you a gift, and I give you a choice. Rather than keep my gift and accept the constraints of my choice, you instead allow your fingers to be cut off in service of the Grounders. The Grounders whom I gave you a way to protect. You argued against the want of your family in protecting them, putting more lives at risk, only to tear out the part of you I made especially for your needs, so that what? Their gods, who actively work against us, can do what you wouldn't do?"
