time for a dust-off... canon is Olimpos!

[nostride]

'Sunglasses'?

A device to... ward away the sun? It's that simple? And easily attainable?

...no. Of course not. This is more of the bait you like to swing before me, isn't it? The one you take for yours at the last hour. 'Hope.'

Yes, that's your game. That's how your kind plays it.

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[obscenities]

Your kind?

[nostride]

You're going to say you're surprised this has caught another one of that again, aren't you.

[obscenities]

Does this offend you?

[nostride]

The 'right' or 'wrong' answer to that... I don't remember either of them. But the intuitive one, wouldn't it be forgiveable if it were "yes"?

[obscenities]

'Tis not for me to discern what is right from what is wrong, nor to offer forgiveness. But the little prince needn't worry over it.

[nostride]

Doesn't that really mean the little prince needn't ask questions?

[obscenities]

The little prince may ask what he wishes. I cannot stop you.

[nostride]

Why would a god spare enough care to try?

[obscenities]

I wonder..

[nostride]

A god should know his own heart, shouldn't he?

[obscenities]

Little things that try to tell a god what they should be.. but who can say?

[nostride]

I... don't know. There's no one to tell riddles in a field. I've never mastered them. You'll have to help me.

[radianced]

How dreary my pet has become.

[nostride]

That wasn't a summon! Or an invitation. Or anything that might encourage you. Shoo.

[radianced]

Look how it squirms!

[nostride]

A fly swatter... would that work here?

1/3

[radianced]

I am the fly?

2/3

[radianced]

[He slowly smiles before...]

3/3

[radianced]

[Laughing loudly.]

Swot me all you wish, tiny ant!

[nostride]

If it's high and buzzing in the sky - it's a fly! You don't yield honey, so there's no use to you. None at all. And -

[ Sword-toss, you say? Don't mind if he does. ]

[radianced]

(He'll catch that sword between his fingers. Thanks for the gift, Ganymede!)

Shall I scare you from the shadows? Or descend from the sky dramatically?

[nostride]

...but you're no Zeus. You're only Apollo, petty and strange.

[radianced]

(Such a cruel phrasing.)

A god is a god. Only the divinity varies.

[nostride]

Isn't it fairer to say he's the final step of a ladder, and you're only another one on the way?

[radianced]

Mortals like things neat and tidy. (Like gods being omniscient.) Zeus's realm is larger than mine - that much is true - but he does not control the sun.