I suppose no one has told you to be careful with promises you don't yet know you can keep, have they?
[He knows what she is doing. It doesn't help, really, in the grand scheme of things, but a bit like a child, he wishes to hear something -- anything -- good from someone else. Because it has been him, telling himself, that they will find them.
But how does he know the gods will answer him on a whim, either? He has encountered so many terrible things, and no god has ever appeared to make them stop.]
I want to keep believing that. I can't allow myself to believe any alternative.
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[He knows what she is doing. It doesn't help, really, in the grand scheme of things, but a bit like a child, he wishes to hear something -- anything -- good from someone else. Because it has been him, telling himself, that they will find them.
But how does he know the gods will answer him on a whim, either? He has encountered so many terrible things, and no god has ever appeared to make them stop.]
I want to keep believing that. I can't allow myself to believe any alternative.