It's Lord of the Flies in my mind tonight
“I can imagine. Before I Ascended, the silence of the Gods was a major point of frustration. I was never a favorite of their heralds, and I didn’t even have magic.” The heralds are capricious, fickle, and from what she understands, poor stand-ins for the benevolence that is supposed to be Vi, Rae, and Mort. Even if the Gods have as much love as they’re rumored to have (and Wessex doubts this very much), it never trickled down to the Hollowed Ground. And therein lies her origin story. Somewhere in the oppression and struggle for survival, she eventually emerged to be the opposition’s favorite.
She settles in to listen to what Abasi’s world is like. He talks of many Gods, already naming more than they’ve got, if you don’t count Caido. Duality - life and death, they have that, too, but as he begins to talk about sacrifice and differences, she shrugs. “No, it isn’t. Many would be shocked to hear that kind of suggestion.” Her curiosity, however, has been sufficiently piqued. “What is a Pharoah? And if you have so many Gods, could you be devoted to more than one? How did you know they were listening, and it wasn’t just… coincidence or luck that things happened the way you wanted them to?”
Wow, Wessex. Go right to the core of religion, why don't you?
She settles in to listen to what Abasi’s world is like. He talks of many Gods, already naming more than they’ve got, if you don’t count Caido. Duality - life and death, they have that, too, but as he begins to talk about sacrifice and differences, she shrugs. “No, it isn’t. Many would be shocked to hear that kind of suggestion.” Her curiosity, however, has been sufficiently piqued. “What is a Pharoah? And if you have so many Gods, could you be devoted to more than one? How did you know they were listening, and it wasn’t just… coincidence or luck that things happened the way you wanted them to?”
Wow, Wessex. Go right to the core of religion, why don't you?
