[what was that?????]

...I... can't.

I guess if I lose, I might. But if I get my wish...

[...]

I made some promises, and I want to keep them. Even Piety wouldn't want me to stay if I didn't have to. And... well, he's a god, now. He can't come back home with us. He's got his own promises to keep here.

[not that they'd talked about it. not that they had to.]