Make your request as you please, if only to satisfy your own ear. I will heed it when I feel like it, but understand this—I already know you. I know you wish to return to your sister. I understand what you've done to keep her safe. I am aware it is destroying you from the inside. I do not condemn you for it.

[ scien's voice, as always, is not gentle. but it is even. assured. steady and stable, against the crashing waves of lucas's own distress.

what is it like, to have the one you call a demon already know so much about your life? your hopes? your dreams? despite everything, scien wouldn't even say that he and his lucas have an especially close relationship... but he knows lucas wants to go back to teaching. he knows that he wants a simple, quiet life with his sister. he knows the lengths lucas will go to in order to reach for that dream.

for so long, he thought that those things had nothing to do with him. (nevermind that he was the one sent lucas to therapy, who healed nadia, who healed lucas.) ]

Take your life into your own hands. And for everything that remains that you cannot accomplish yourself, I will answer your every prayer. Even those that this you finds too selfish to speak aloud.

That is my own decision, as your god.