There is that. And I am most invested in you avoiding His rage.

For that one brief second, you know, I was terrifed that He would think you'd waited too long, and call up on me to kill you both. It would amuse Him, I think, to do so. Pulling the wings off flies, and setting ants ablaze with a magnifying lens.

One thing you should know, lapushka, and then I will leave matters to your discretion and wait until you decide it is time to talk about it, if ever: I have both written the prayers for her and said them over her body, and I have said before the Gods Themselves that she was ours -- for however brief a moment -- and that we claim her. Her name will be forever written among our honoured dead.