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If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

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Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

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We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.

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They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

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It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, a...more

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So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for what we gods feel. Gods have no words for such thi...more

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We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

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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