[The supposition that Sebastian raises is troubling. What has been driving Liem to such extremes of despair is the thought that perhaps the old worlds shouldn't be brought back, given the rampant suffering many of them included — but he had not previously spent much time considering that perhaps reviving them all wasn't even achievable.]
I don't know. I… couldn't begin to guess about such things. The gods rarely intervened in their Creation in dramatic ways, but I was taught this was by agreement with each other, to avoid conflict — not because of an inability to do so.
[How did one calculate the toll required to revive scores of doomed existences and all their inhabitants? And how could he really guess what the limits of the Oracles' power were? All he really knows is that Zenith claims one thing and Meridian claims another. He is just a mortal man, and despite a knowledge of religion that would be considered extensive by probably anyone in his own country, he doesn't remotely have answers to the questions of what might truly be possible in the hands of the gods.]
Miss Akua said something similar to me once — that the toll for resurrecting every single world would be astronomical. [She had said it confidently, and just as confidently asserted that she was eminently qualified to make such judgements.] Still, that didn't stop her from pursuing Meridian's promise. She is an intelligent and learned woman; I don't believe she would make such a decision baselessly.
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I don't know. I… couldn't begin to guess about such things. The gods rarely intervened in their Creation in dramatic ways, but I was taught this was by agreement with each other, to avoid conflict — not because of an inability to do so.
[How did one calculate the toll required to revive scores of doomed existences and all their inhabitants? And how could he really guess what the limits of the Oracles' power were? All he really knows is that Zenith claims one thing and Meridian claims another. He is just a mortal man, and despite a knowledge of religion that would be considered extensive by probably anyone in his own country, he doesn't remotely have answers to the questions of what might truly be possible in the hands of the gods.]
Miss Akua said something similar to me once — that the toll for resurrecting every single world would be astronomical. [She had said it confidently, and just as confidently asserted that she was eminently qualified to make such judgements.] Still, that didn't stop her from pursuing Meridian's promise. She is an intelligent and learned woman; I don't believe she would make such a decision baselessly.