"I suspect you would hear it less were you to cease doing it." It's not harsh - if anything, it's a tiny bit wry, although with Joshua it can be hard to tell.
Fortunately for Rose's rating on the blasphemeter, Joshua isn't religious at all. The natural result, perhaps, of being yourself the demigod your people sort of venerate. At least, for people who aren't megalomaniacally selfish coughUltimacough.
His expression turns thoughtful as she explains. As a book binds its own writer...he might have had something to say about that, was he not distracted by her remarkably sharp insight.
"I assure you, on my world, we have. And silenced them, when we had need of it." It doesn't sound like a threat, though - just a fact. "There, fate's calling was worse than a death sentence for anyone who answered, and they most certainly were not heroes. From whence does your wisdom come, Seer?"
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Fortunately for Rose's rating on the blasphemeter, Joshua isn't religious at all. The natural result, perhaps, of being yourself the demigod your people sort of venerate. At least, for people who aren't megalomaniacally selfish
coughUltimacough.His expression turns thoughtful as she explains. As a book binds its own writer...he might have had something to say about that, was he not distracted by her remarkably sharp insight.
"I assure you, on my world, we have. And silenced them, when we had need of it." It doesn't sound like a threat, though - just a fact. "There, fate's calling was worse than a death sentence for anyone who answered, and they most certainly were not heroes. From whence does your wisdom come, Seer?"