[The small slap earns a short laugh, and a gentle tug.]
Aye, I know. It's hard not to, [he explains.] There's a lot about your world-- even about the Nexus, honestly, that's so much bigger and... more than where I came from. [A pause.] I looked on a map in the Nexus library and Albion's just one country on a huge map of hundreds of others.
Add the whole of the cosmos and creation to that? 'Tis somewhat easy to feel humbled by the size and power of what's normal to all of you. I used to trust in God to handle things so enormous that people can't, but in your case he's-- horrible.
[In a more ordinary context he'd prefer to throw himself into the fray for the sake of his friends-- but in this case the idea's impossible. Almost absurd, really. He knows he couldn't do anything more than any other ordinary human might be able to and it's a difficult idea to accept.
He touches Beelzebub's arm warmly.] I trust you all and know you're powerful, I just-- care.
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Date: 2020-01-16 03:57 am (UTC)Aye, I know. It's hard not to, [he explains.] There's a lot about your world-- even about the Nexus, honestly, that's so much bigger and... more than where I came from. [A pause.] I looked on a map in the Nexus library and Albion's just one country on a huge map of hundreds of others.
Add the whole of the cosmos and creation to that? 'Tis somewhat easy to feel humbled by the size and power of what's normal to all of you. I used to trust in God to handle things so enormous that people can't, but in your case he's-- horrible.
[In a more ordinary context he'd prefer to throw himself into the fray for the sake of his friends-- but in this case the idea's impossible. Almost absurd, really. He knows he couldn't do anything more than any other ordinary human might be able to and it's a difficult idea to accept.
He touches Beelzebub's arm warmly.] I trust you all and know you're powerful, I just-- care.