A burnt offering of an unbeliever, or a living girl. The Lord of Light isn't a god much worshipped in my land. I can't say I know whether or not he's real, only that I knew a priestess who insisted upon it, and who did -- wonderful and terrible things, but for the terrible things, I banished her.
Your Apollo sounds better. It's hard to imagine any of the gods I've heard of, named or not, raising the child of another -- or any child. It's hard to imagine them putting such a hand into the affairs of -- mortals.
[He nearly uses the word "men" there, but that wouldn't be strictly accurate, would it?]
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[His expression shifts back inward.]
A burnt offering of an unbeliever, or a living girl. The Lord of Light isn't a god much worshipped in my land. I can't say I know whether or not he's real, only that I knew a priestess who insisted upon it, and who did -- wonderful and terrible things, but for the terrible things, I banished her.
Your Apollo sounds better. It's hard to imagine any of the gods I've heard of, named or not, raising the child of another -- or any child. It's hard to imagine them putting such a hand into the affairs of -- mortals.
[He nearly uses the word "men" there, but that wouldn't be strictly accurate, would it?]