GODLY AUDIENCES: RAY

[divus]

Comments

[selfimmolates]

That's actually a little unsettling.

[divus]

[Piety chuckles, sounding sheepish.]

I'm sorry. I try not to...take advantage.

[selfimmolates]

If I were you, I'd be taking advantage of it all the time.

[divus]

It helps me get to know people. When you understand a person's best qualities, even before they feel comfortable showing them, it's usually easier to find common ground. That's how I've met some of my closest friends.

[selfimmolates]

[THAT'S PART OF WHY HE DOESN'T LIKE IT!!]

And here?

[divus]

Here...I can keep believing. In all of you, and all of us...and in the future.

[selfimmolates]

... You are putting way too much faith in us.

[divus]

[Piety gives another gentle laugh.]

I don't think I am...but I understand how you might think that, with the way that things are going. Faith or not, people have a way of doing things you least expect.

[selfimmolates]

I mean, I was under the impression that murder was kind of unexpected, so yes, I completely agree with that.

[...]

By the way, who was the white mask figure in my dream?

[divus]

Oh...that would be the competitor with the forced defection ability.

[Or some kind of symbolic version of them, at least.]

[selfimmolates]

All right, so nothing important.