“He roasted a god?” Baraka laughs. “Word? I’d have to see it to believe it.”
“And he said that no one believes in him, so ‘he’s hard to see.’ It pissed Arctarogus off at first, but the self-proclaimed King of Comedy continued. He continued until Arctarogus looked as though he was ready to bring down the entire stadium, and then…”
“And then?”
We move below an abyss of black that turns bright blue again as we reach the lowest floor, and she says, “He started laughing. Matteus told the most offensive jokes that a man could in front of someone more powerful than anyone else in the city. He made a god laugh at himself, and he got to walk away with his life. More than that, actually; now he’s famous. Arctarogus promised him a wife and a place at his side, and old Matteus asked to keep doing w
