“Why are you fighting me, Godslayer?” He sounds truly bewildered. “Don’t you want to be out from under their thumb once and for all? Don’t you want to be free?” “No! Free is lonely. Free is having no one who cares for you, no one who will sacrifice their own lives to protect you. Free is no one having your back even when you’re a solid bitch. I don’t want that kind of free!” A vein throbs in his neck and his hand clenches. “Weakness. Dependency. Human frailty. Why wallow in your humanity when you can become a god?” There’s movement behind him, out over the open sky. Something coming in
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