men“Oron, can you begin to see? I do not hate you. I can love you—try to understand you—believe in you because I can believe in these things. And I say they are the things of the gods. If there are no gods, then even that doesn’t change these things. But we meet here now for the only time in this life— And I am talking, talking, talking because it lessens the anxiety of death. I’m only a man, after all. There is always concern over death because we don’t know death as we know life. But soon I’ll laugh at philosophers and men of books. If nothing else, then death erases the fears of death—and life.”
“I—I’m not afraid, Semranus.”
“Then you are not human. You are steel, water, stone…and we know that you are not. You have doubts, don’t you? And that is good. Tomorrow, perhaps, you will have
