I am the origin the sickness that caused those women agony.

[ Even as he says it, there's no real pride in his words. No gleam in his eye or flash of sneer to reveal him as someone reveling in the cruelties he'd introduced and empowered in his tenure as God Supreme. His hands twist together, because unbeknownst to him — it is right. What Dani thinks is entirely right. There is a "why" that nobody asked him; an ease in which they had thought the worst of their strange, solitary god of war. ]

My sister, Isis. We were best friends. She and I confided everything in one another: secrets, struggles, doubts, fears, desires. She was my greatest ally, and I hers — together, we could have outlasted any troubles set before us.

[ His mouth twists. ]

Understandably, we fell apart after the night I killed Osiris. And we used all those private moments between ourselves as tools to hurt one another, afterward. So. I comprehend Koby, and I comprehend you. That's why I was not about to let his companions... "protect you". Like you were an afterthought.