» Thu May 03, 2012 3:05 am
There's a touching exchange in the Trial relating to this:
Allerleirauh: How is it that you spoke so seldom with your sister and brother, Ayem and Seht, allowing Ayem certainly and Seht perhaps to fall into madness at such a critical hour as that of the loss of the Tribunal's godhood? Any mere mortal would have devoted more care to his family.... your inertia surprises me.
Vivec: Is this a crime, Mercy? Or merely a stark variation that causes you a personal anguish, this difference in the kinship of snowmen and their devils? To admit I am mortal does not admit that I am a man. [...]
I did not speak to either Ayem or Seht enough before their death because…well, because, mortal or divine, that is the way it always is.