[There is only one God where Ortus comes from, which may be part of the trouble. The other is a litany of acts too dark and terrible to recount to a child in the midst of a lighthearted adventure, of cruelties that God has barely deigned to acknowledge, let alone repent for.

He still snorts at the remark about the net, a surprisingly sound of levity that leaves him blinking at himself. He shuffles aside to allow the boy room to bait the arrangement.]

I think that, whatever the case may be, it should not fall to children to bestow that help upon him - nor to catch him in a net, however clever that child may be.

[Billie is nothing at all like Harrowhark, but there is another clever child he is thinking of.]

There are those who are seeking to help him already. Ones who have chosen to do so of their own will. They may yet find success.