we have flown too close to the sun

"Noted." And so it is. If Wessex is going to have to experience temporary death, best to have the details ironed out early. Not that the Voice expected any sentimentality from one of her brightest, but as in all things, she would give her family the choice. "The Core will keep them safe. Whatever the old gods might promise in taking our family's souls, I would never risk an eternity of torture. Mort might promise them peace, but I am not so foolish to believe in Death, nor in his lover. Vi would seek to punish you even in death. In that regard, if it should ever come to it, the Core is more important than I am. The Core can hold all of you, forever if need be." The Voice explains.