[Duo's mouth quirks up at the question, still not meeting Dee's eyes as they flick up towards some point between them. Some kind, huh.]
No. [Not like me, he thinks.] Not some sort.
Death. The one and only. And yet even She was subject to the whims of the Porter. To Lachesis...
[He draws a pattern over the pizza box with one finger.] Atropos. You know what she represents, right? The End... The End of everything... just like what happened with the City.
Don't you suppose, if Lachesis is even at her mercy, that Death too is only an aspect of Atropos, in the way gods of death are merely the fingers of Death?
[And if that was the case, then the only God that mattered was...]
no subject
No. [Not like me, he thinks.] Not some sort.
Death. The one and only. And yet even She was subject to the whims of the Porter. To Lachesis...
[He draws a pattern over the pizza box with one finger.] Atropos. You know what she represents, right? The End... The End of everything... just like what happened with the City.
Don't you suppose, if Lachesis is even at her mercy, that Death too is only an aspect of Atropos, in the way gods of death are merely the fingers of Death?
[And if that was the case, then the only God that mattered was...]