>>5480173>>5480141>>5479961>>5479907>>5479717>>5479710>>5479707>This is the matter of a goddess! Mortals had best not concern themselves, and if you catch them whispering you'll see them punished!What a bother to be dragged down by these mortal concerns, really you'd prefer if they were still just blissful and lazy. Easier to manage at least, and do whatever you want, as should be the case. Still, it seems the need to keep being reminded of the way things are, and what the new dynamic of power is. The only reason they are all alive in the first place is because you saved them, you provide (and well) for them and the populace, and you accepted to stoop down to their level of governance and bothered to keep them around.
Still their entitlement, stemming from the ego of their own privileged existence, but the greater your divine power grows the more the people fall into line. Before they objected and complained openly to you about the way you dressed, now they only whisper and gossip over something so scandalous as a 'bastard lovechild', by their standards. More and more they cannot refuse what you are, and less and less can they find the will to oppose you.
Not when it seems increasingly hopeless, that you would even consider anything they say. After all, what can they really do to you? You could jump off the throne right now and start killing them all with your own hands, or get bastards with all the husbands of the court and force the noble families to raise your children and take your name, and <span class="mu-i">all</span> they could do is complain. These mortals need to get it through their heads by now, that they are dealing with a divine being, and mortal is all they are.
<span class="mu-r">"Let me say something... I like you Darry so this isn't personal, but you speak for all the others, and I'm not going to repeat myself... to those who ask, this is the matter of a goddess. It is no concern of any mortal how I behave personally or privately, or whom I see fit to spend time with and how. I know some still have their doubts of me, question my divinity... if they can find another being in this land that beheading cannot kill, who can steer the rivers by will, then let them. Otherwise, it is not the place of you or any other person to ask why of me, or dare to suggest else."</span>
You speak to your Lord vizier rather more firmly and harshly than is your custom, like a stern mother disciplining her child.
<span class="mu-b">"...forgive me Sedjet but this personal, private matter of yours does affect the realm."</span>
<span class="mu-r">"Worry not, you shall have your heir of me. Whatever I choose to do in the future, Bexley will be honored by my lineage. And without a father you have no fear of an undesirable coming to rule or sharing power. Have faith in me to this, that there could be no threat or challenge to me or this child from the father, as humble as he is. I hope that you would join me in such laughter, if any fool would think to support the man as a rival."</span>
