preceptive | tamamo.

tamamo.

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... And yet, here we are.

-- Are you mocking me?

No. Just noting that you seem capable of sorrow for those you've lost.

A tragedy, isn't it?

[She's being petty. Her tails whip back and forth over her waist]

Not to say being a goddess was particularly interesting, but nothing ever hurt me, either.

Pain is a part of life.

... Though that might be a human sentiment, and there are plenty who'd disagree with me.

I know plenty of gods who would disagree, yes, and say that the pain humans experience is their own infliction.

[Heh]

... But to be honest, my time as a goddess... I do not remember much of it, outside of watching humans and wondering what it was like to feel as they did. If I had a purpose beyond that, it eludes me now.

It is. But it's part of what makes them alive.

[he has opinions on this for reasons, but.]

Well, what matters is the now, and what you want in the present.