GODLY AUDIENCES - CONNOR

[divus]

Comments

[divus]

Does your database include anything about a substance called ambrosia?

[tootsiepop]

[Give him two seconds to beep boop internally, but once that's done--]

Ambrosia... The food of the gods, often depicted as granting immortality to those who consume it.

[divus]

Yeah. This isn't that, but it's close. It's a food that can be used to heal injuries. It's not the exactly ambrosia from my old life, but it's changed enough so that if the three of you eat it you won't suffer the consequences but still reap the benefits.

[tootsiepop]

... I'm sorry, the consequences?

[divus]

Yeah man. If mortals eat ambrosia? It's not good. Like...fatally not good.

[tootsiepop]

So it would act like a poison to them... What would happen, exactly, if someone else were to consume it?

[divus]

Their insides would melt and it'd be like spontaneous combustion. It's still not a pretty picture.

[tootsiepop]

... Noted. No one else can sample the ambrosia.

[Can someone say YIKES?]

What can you tell me about the claw we found in the attic? What kind of creature did it belong to?

[divus]

You got it. [But ah...] That's from a dragon. A really angry dragon, but a dragon.

[tootsiepop]

A dragon from your original world, I assume?

[divus]

Yeah. He was in my way, so I removed it. [After removing it from his face, but he doesn't need to say that.]

[tootsiepop]

I see... That's impressive. You must have been quite the warrior in your world.

[divus]

You could say that. I've been training my whole life, so it'd be pretty stupid if I let something like that kill me.

[tootsiepop]

Of course. I wouldn't expect any less from a man who became a god.

[... After getting killed by something else entirely, maybe. Schroginger's canon point.]

I understand you're all bound by your own set of rules, but... Is there anything you're allowed to say about the prophecy we received?

[divus]

The prophecy's my own, so it's not exactly in the same line of rules as what you guys have to follow. With that...the one thing you've gotta remember is that even if it's not always 100% easy to interpret or accurate, it's always the truth. You just have to consider which angle you're coming from to understand it.

[tootsiepop]

Got it.

[Kind of. Maybe. They're going to get it 100% wrong, anyway. But... there's a beat.

And then Connor frowns.]

Cunning, is there any particular reason... [...] That is to say... I saw someone from my world while receiving your prophecy. Why?

[divus]

...that happens with prophecies. Who you see depends on a lot of factors, but it's usually somebody important to you for one reason or another. Someone who made you act.

Who was he?

[tootsiepop]

[........]

Lieutenant Hank Anderson. He was... my partner while I was assigned to the Detroit Police Department.

[divus]

Did you guys get along?

[tootsiepop]

I thought we did. But I was wrong.

[divus]

Oh yeah? [Now he just sounds interested.] What happened?

[tootsiepop]

I wanted to complete our mission. He didn't. He said— [...] He implied that I was never his friend. That I was faking it.

[divus]

...gonna guess by the way you're saying it, you weren't. So you turned on each other instead?

[tootsiepop]

He left me no choice.

[divus]

[...] Did you kill him? [Because that sounds sort of threatening.]