“There are no gods in Hell,” she said. “There are courts, sure. They have royal families—the King and the Prince, the infernal divine, the other courts, what have you—but it’s nothing like the absolute supremacy of gods in other realms over their subjects. Hell’s king dreamed of equality. Hell stands for the egalitarian rule we laud. I think it’s part of why so many of us spend our time in the mortal realm. Here, Dorian and I aren’t squished beneath another god’s thumb.
