"No." Arialla should have found Adam's offer of help laughable, but instead her voice was dead serious as she refused. "The only thing that will bring me solace is the destruction of your goddess ... and all her creations."
Including Adam himself, of course. In fact, Arialla was beginning to seriously consider whether she should try dragging him into the sunlight to burn, as he'd suggested she could if he provoked her. She'd never raised a hand against another person before -- she hadn't even gotten a chance to attempt self-defense when attacked -- but then Adam wasn't a person, was he?
So that was the question. It was a matter of faith, really. "People live natural lives. They are formed by the gods, and they return to the gods when they die." But as for right here and now, well ... Arialla smiled unpleasantly. "As for right now? I can walk in the sun. I can feel as you can't -- pain, pleasure, taste. And I am not reliant on a false goddess for my life."
please don't take my sunshine away
