Chapter 92: Friend
Tulland found that all he had to do was to want to ask a question during the share, and he could.
It can’t be that simple. Men bound you? Simple men?
And women. And some children. It should not surprise you. Humans have accomplished great things since long before your time. Since long before mine.
But why? They said you were a tyrant. They still do, really. Nothing in the memories you’ve shown me is supposed to be false, right? I can feel you knowing it’s a lie when they call you that.
It is a lie in a sense. I had a tyrant’s power. I ruled in a way. And without their consent. I made decisions without their vote or input. I did all those things.
So does The Infinite, right? Is it abnormal?
It is not. Every system operates in that way. I believe the boy knew that, in some ways. That I was not so evil as he came to believe. But I had tried to fool him, once. To lie to him about what a choice would do. He sensed the lie, and never trusted me after that. It left him vulnerable to other sorts of lies.
I mean, you say lies. But why not power? He unseated a god. That sounds tempting enough.
If he had desired the throne, certainly. But he neither wanted it nor got it.