“I was not bad,” he says. He lets it sit at that for a moment, and then continues. “But what is ‘bad’ exactly? I was not lazy or selfish. I was cruel.” He pauses for a moment. “Mostly. It is not…complicated, being a god.” I can imagine. “Yet Riekki is not here in the mortal realm. She is not boring and good, that one. Why do we serve the same punishment?”
His contemplation about his punishment and what I means is very interesting. Makes this godly character seem so human. That’s really the point of the anticipation though, to regain some humanity.
