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"Even less than I understand yours."

That would explain why she kept fighting with Atton. It would also explain why she'd assaulted two people in the past week. In her defence, they had deserved it.

"Not a very good situation," Asar-Suti says. "I hope you don't get into pain or trouble over that."

"There's already been a lot of pain. Most of it for me, though not all. Also, some drunken mistakes."

She frowned and then changed her mind and smiled. There had also been some drunken things that hadn't been a mistake, as it turned out.

"There always are - that's human life. Even for gods, believe me," Asar-Suti grins.

"I should believe you, but I'm not that trusting." She joked, a half-smile on her lips.

"Well, you're not likely to ever become a god, so you have to take my word for it," Asar-Suti said, raising an eyebrow.

"Maybe I will." She snorted slightly into her drink.

"You will what - become a god?" Asar-Suti asks, amused.

"I could if I wanted." She wasn't preening, no siree.

"Well, how would you do that? Studied any recipes yet?" Asar-Suti grins.

"I'm not going to admit that I'm not sure."

She may have been drinking, but probably she was just a little giddy.

"Well, you take one human soul, pledged to you in honest and fulfilled bargain..." Asar-Suti began, with a weird little grin.

"I don't think I could find one."

It may be rather scary that she's actually considering it.

"Depends on what you can offer them in bargain," Asar-Suti points out. "If you have the right thing to give, there's always somebody who'll sell their soul, sooner or later."

"I don't think I need anyone's soul."

She might sometimes be lacking one, but that didn't mean she needed to steal it.

"You do, if you want to follow my recipe for self-deification," Asar-Suti grins. "I never said it was easy being a god."

"But as a God you can kill whomever annoys you."

That sounded like a most pleasant prospect.

"Unless you're in Milliways, where you've got to keep the rules, even as a god," Asar-Suti laughs. "And I rather like being here, so I let some annoying little buggers live rather than leave."

"Pity, I know of a few people I'd kill without a second thought."

She figured he knew a few too.

He did.

"Yep, there's no light without shadow," he said.

"Does that also mean there is no shadow without light."

She had become rather cryptic lately, Milliways was changing her. She didn't like it one bit.

"That goes without saying; it's called logic. Logic does not always prevail, but helps in 90 percent of all cases," Asar-Suti adds, just as cryptic.

Of course Milliways is changing Aeryn . it is the place beyond all worlds, larger and more complicated than ay single world, and anybody would have their mind forcibly expanded to deal with it.

"I don't believe you. I've met plenty of shadows with no inkling of light. Plenty of purely evil people."

Of course, they probably hadn't been speaking of people.

"You are from a world that holds pure evil? Define pure evil."

Expect trouble, at least of the dialectic kind, if Asar-Suti starts asking for definitions.

"No. In fact, I'd rather not think of it."

There's no trouble when a denying Peacekeeper is involved. Oh, who am I kidding.