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This does cause some ire from the populace, although as usual it's mainly the nobles who continue to feel you are not behaving properly as a leader and certainly not as a goddess, potentially in opposition to their God. In some ways you win favor by your deeds yet in other ways you lose it by your actions. Darry at least can speak privately, that overall favor of you by the nobility is fairly low, and rather they favor it when you are simply gone and leadership is left among them to manage the town. Although this doesn't particularly bother you, in keeping to the old Menaji ways, you've increasingly questioned the value the nobles bring to the table. You agreed to play their game and follow their rules when it suits you, but how simple it would be if they just... went away. No more nobles, no more trouble, just you and the love of your people.
Well one such cause of contention among the court, is the matter of family. They cannot seem to wrap their heads around the idea that, as a goddess, you aren't just going to up and die like some mortal ruler. You may not dwell in Bexley forever but as their leader, you very well could sit the throne with consistency till the world stopped turning and all passed into night. No, like they expect you to behave in some ways, so too do they expect a family rather than just a lone regent. Though you sense among them, much of the desire is their hope that a mortal partner would balance, temper your divinity. If not get you to behave better, then at least be a more reliable line of appeal to your heart. At the very least, a man wouldn't permit you to wander around in scanty revealing clothes that are most unbecoming of a royal lady!
Maybe they're not wrong to want this, and you suppose if you desire to unite the land then you probably won't be able to do it alone. Maybe you could, but how difficult that would be, when instead you could have an extended family to help you. Another sacrifice of yours for the sake of humanity, in the big picture, although love and family could never be called a sacrifice. Ah but once again you run up against difficulty with these people, in the way of social and cultural norms of these "modern" humans. If you had it your way, you might imagine that you could end up having a different family to each of the remaining towns; what better way to ensure their prosperity and survival than your own blood, for when you can't be everywhere at once? Or at the very least you feel you shouldn't be constrained to any one mortal, when your potential is so much more. But these nobles, and to an extent the populace wouldn't have it, as far as you can tell. As benevolent as you are and what they might excuse of you, some lines may be too difficult for you to cross... unless you incite radical change.
