“What? How?”
“Like anytime I calm you down without my Harmony, it fuels that power. If I were to trip you up and you went tumbling, it’d charge my Chaos.”
She hums and I give her my own responding sound.
“How do you think mine will recharge?”
“Honestly?”
“Well, yeah. Please don’t convince me to do some shit that doesn’t even work.”
Like I’d ever do that…
“I believe yours is going to recharge by the opposite of external Chaos. Internal peace. I think you’ll need stillness, space to separate what everyone else is feeling, and to feel your own feelings, without interference.”
I peek out the corner of my eye and watch as she nods mindlessly as though what I said triggered a memory or something for her.
Her head twitches as she catches me staring at her, and she offers me a small smile.
“Well, if we’re going to discuss your power when we get to the farm, do you mind if we keep discussing mine?”
“Are you trying to get me to feel you up again? If that’s the case, you don’t have to make an excuse for that.”
“Shut up.” She laughs a sweet little sound and cuddles closer to me. “No, I really have a question.”
“Fine, but the offer is on the table.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.” Her wink makes my dick switch. “What’s the difference between Harmony and Accord.”
And there went my semi-hard-on.
My nose scrunches and no doubt my shoulders tense. She doesn’t miss a thing either as she cocks her head to the side.
“I get the sense you don’t care for the Goddess of Accord either?”
“I don’t care for any of the Beginning Gods, angel. Aside from Derivius and even sometimes he’s on my shit list.”
She grunts in agreement and I sigh.
Who better to explain this difference than me, I suppose.
“Harmony is the coexistence of keeping contrasting forces balanced—light and dark, chaos and order, life and death. So on and so forth. It can and sometimes will eliminate conflict between those forces to protect that balance. Mine does a mixture of that.
“Like I explained before, if I’m in a situation like in the Abandon, my Harmony will break free and take over. Balancing everyone else around me to protect me. When it isn’t like that, though, its goal and my goal for it is to balance what’s unbalanced. Accord would do no such thing.”
“What do you mean?”
“Accord isn’t emotional, but logical. It’s agreement, alignment, and clarity. It thrives on knowledge, understanding truth, motive, logic, forward direction, and mutual comprehension. The Guider Designation stems from that domain.”
Her eyebrows rise.
“I didn’t know that, but I can see some of those attributes in Amick.”
Yeah, so can I.
“Think of Accord as the power that oversees interactions between people, objects, and even systems. It’s not aboutmaking things balanced or even nice. It’s about making things consistent. It’s the exact opposite of Chaos. It’s the ability to make things fit into a pretty little logical box.
“It cares about everyone being on the same page. For example, the Attendants. They’ve been deemed the lowest of society, and the vast majority of the population agrees. Therefore, their opinions on the matter are in alignment. Even the Attendants themselves nowadays agree with it. Some don’t. You can’t take bestie’s opinion in the matter, though. She, I swear, is the minority.”
