“Did you . . . ?” Teddy Jo let it trail off. “Absorb the essence of Deimos? Yes.” Teddy Jo shook his head. “It’s not apotheosis. Apotheosis implies reaching the state of rapture and divinity through faith. It’s not an appearance avatar.” “No,” I said. “That would imply the deliberate voluntary descent of a deity to be reborn in a human body, and from what I understand there was nothing voluntary about the process. Deimos wasn’t reincarnated.” “There is no word for it,” Christopher said. Teddy Jo rocked forward, his hands in a single fist against his mouth. “That’s because it goes against the
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