If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?

"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."

We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.

Live to fight on other days.

Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.

Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.