The first thing to register in Replicus' mind at Suzate's words was the shocking detail she and Actuass had glossed over before in their exchange.
The fact that Deities knew everything that would happen in the world they created had been quite surprising to the Warmoth's Progeny, but he had also felt that he was stupid to not have considered it. It only made sense.
He tied the nuances of this back to what the Emissary had told him and the other Faction Leaders of the Severed Union days ago - that Boron's return was inevitable. Maybe that wasn't the most prudent and sufficient way to describe that event. Maybe Quintess, Listafelle and Suzate had, on top of feeling obligated to release Boron from his shackles for reasons not too clear, had also foreseen it happening regardless of what they did, whatever asures they took.
Replicus scoffed.
The thought, instead of mystifying him, only made him see the Deities in a weaker light. Sohow, Quintess and Listafelle leaving Aigas to Suzate felt like a couple of guilty cowards running away from a proper confrontation with an old friend to him.
It was this line of thinking that made Replicus less impressed when facing Suzate in a mortal - seemingly - vessel.
She stared daggers at him.
The term she continued to use to address him - 'anomaly' - annoyed him. There was a note of bla in the tone with which it was delivered. It almost sounded, to Replicus, that even though Actuass had caused a lot more devastation to Aigas than he did, Suzate saw him as the pri problem.
But how could Replicus be a problem?
If anything, he was a victim.
If anything, he was sothing of a hero.
It had long been established, even by Actuass, that the Deities had this sense of passivity - inaction, really that allowed trouble to proliferate.
It showed now. Rather than treat the cause, Suzate manifested to deal with the aftermath, and she dared to say she was cleaning up after the Warmoth's Progeny!
Replicus frowned.
"First I had to put down a nace you didn't have the guts to kill yourself - your own son - and now I just stopped another problem on your hands and you won't even acknowledge by my na?" he said indignantly.
Suzate said with a scoff.
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