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That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us

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Many things have broken him. He holds himself together with spit and endless smiling, but all can see the cracks. You, though; you are dented, bruised...more

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And Mother does not hate her; actually, she fears Damaya. Is there a difference? Maybe.

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He has come to seduce the god of seduction, and oh, has he come prepared.

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How terrible to be a god of change and endure grief unending.

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I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't so...more

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But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.