[hits him over the head in the future for PERISHING
Anyway, D's eyes remain settled on Set's warmth-rich face. He doesn't question Set's reply because there's a particular kind of resolution in the expression Set wears while giving it.
It's not unlike an answer he would give as well to those he knew less about.
He wonders what answer Set is expecting, looking the way he does. The familiar way his intense eyes are ringed by dark lashes, the slope of the brows, the angular arch of his jaws. Does Set expect him to stand fast with the desire to create a new world without him, hating him, thinking him a disgrace because of the familiar tumbling wave of his dark hair?]
I'm not a god, [he says quietly. He is perhaps the son of a god, too, though, if things become muddled with technicality.] It is not my decision to create worlds.
Only to protect the world that existed for the humans who had lived there.
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Anyway, D's eyes remain settled on Set's warmth-rich face. He doesn't question Set's reply because there's a particular kind of resolution in the expression Set wears while giving it.
It's not unlike an answer he would give as well to those he knew less about.
He wonders what answer Set is expecting, looking the way he does. The familiar way his intense eyes are ringed by dark lashes, the slope of the brows, the angular arch of his jaws. Does Set expect him to stand fast with the desire to create a new world without him, hating him, thinking him a disgrace because of the familiar tumbling wave of his dark hair?]
I'm not a god, [he says quietly. He is perhaps the son of a god, too, though, if things become muddled with technicality.] It is not my decision to create worlds.
Only to protect the world that existed for the humans who had lived there.