[Evan makes a grim noise, and on the other side of the network he's making quite the face. But though it holds for long moments, it does pass, and he sighs and lets his shoulders slump.]

Yeah. Yeah, there were -- or, there still are. There were... I mean, on Nalawi there were two people in particular who really couldn't seem to let it drop. The one I talked to, the one I tried to talk some sense into -- he talked about killing gods the same way some people talk about -- I don't know, about vacuuming up spiders.

[He thinks of the fuss he's seen people put up about spiders in general, and shakes his head.] No, not even that. He talked about his destiny-granted right to kill gods like he was talking about winning a spelling bee. Like it was something he looked forward to, like it was something he was smug about.

That particular person is gone and I can't say it's a loss for the team.