...I'm not entirely sure ( But he stops, at least, to raise his glance and study the boy-child before him. Considering him, pained and long. )

Nor can I vouch there is a serpent god. I don't — hold the faith, as it were. If we had a certainty, I would have sent an army. But... drug-led hallucinations that spawned the world and somehow still troubles himself with his old haunts? I wonder.

( Still, an idle, careful shrug. ) My uncles are willing to surrender their claim, if the serpent chooses me over them. So, it will.