[God Quest] see what's inside

Her fingers are like liquid lightning, the touch shooting across Isla's sensors like something more alive than she will ever be. Looking up at her goddess, she tries and fails for a smile, as if not being able to shoulder the weight of what the Voice asks is as shameful as it is true. "Perhaps it if were anyone else, I could," she murmurs. "But not Remi. We were closer than lovers, once." And even now after all that has happened and all the war that looms in the vague middle distance, she can't shake that feeling. "Besides" she murmurs, "it would only be if it was a guarantee. And it isn't." It would never be a guarantee, that the life of the Lullaby would ensure that not one Ascended would die. ISLA pray for me pray to me