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he were dog shit and Anubis were a shoe.
“Agreed. I do seek information. But I’m willing to
share equally.” This was one occasion where the truth
would serve him better than a lie. “The flow of knowledge will benefit us both. There’s a group that calls
itself the Setnakhts. And they may be a threat to us all.”
He trod carefully, choosing each word, because Anubis
was waiting to pounce on anything he might construe
as an insult.
“The Setnakhts are Sutekh’s minions.”
Yeah…how to parry that?
“They worship Sutekh,” Dagan agreed. “Bytheir
choice. He did not recruit them or invite their worship.”
“He does not discourage it.”
Sutekh? Discourage adoration? Not fucking likely.
“He allows them their free will. It is their mortal right,”
Dagan hedged.
“You cloud the topic, soul reaper, arguing both
sides. Do you defend them or condemn them?”
“Their motives are unknown. Quite possibly impure.”
“You condemn them.”
“No.” He sucked at this. Give him a darksoul to
reap and he was good to go. But this doublespeak
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wasn’t for him. “They are mortals who dabble in
things they do not understand, and those dabblings are
creating…imbalances.”
“We have felt that.” Anubis’s obsidian eyes glittered
in the eerie light. “What do you want of Osiris?”
“I seek information and wish for an ally in my
