A gruff, dissatisfied sound comes out of her.
“I don’t like that very much.”
I bite my tongue and pause my words.
Way to go, dickhead.
You let your feelings about it slip right on in there.
I won’t be the reason she dislikes another one of her powers.
“Accord is the most difficult and confusing of the big seven in my opinion, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. There are some favorable abilities that can be used from that power.”
“From the way you were just gritting the words through your teeth a second ago, I find that hard to believe.”
“That was in direct correlation with the Goddess of Accord. Take her out of the equation and consider the power. Then it isn’t hard to believe.”
“Okay then,” she says with way less enthusiasm than a second ago.
“Let’s start with an exciting and irritating ability. The power is like a built-in lie finder.”
“What?”
“Uh-huh. Like I said, Accord cares about agreement and alignment. You can’t truly achieve either of those if your words are built on a lie. Over time, the fibber will slip up, and their facts will no longer align. The power can sense fractures, orwell, contradictions in a statement. Then you’ll know without a shadow of doubt you’re being lied to.”
She hums and nods. “You know, I feel like I’ve always kind of sensed when I’m being lied to.”
“Now that you say that, you do have an annoying sense of knowing when someone’s keeping something from you or shielding some of the truth.”
Her saucy, evil little grin causes me to chuckle.
“Okay, so I like that I could possibly use this power to tell if someone’s lying to me. Can I make them tell the truth?”
“Not as far as I know. It’s more so about having the ability to know that, then adjusting or adapting your next move from there.”
“Huh. I can live with that. What else?”
I tap my lips and think about another ability that’s pretty cool. As long as the shit is used right.
“Oh, so you know Ellian is the God of Structure, a Domain under Accord, right?”
“Uh, no, I didn’t know that and I never in my life would’ve guessed that. It makes sense his domain is under Accord and he’s a Guider, though.”
“Well, now you do. So, in my opinion, his power is pretty sweet. In the sense of his abilities, structure doesn’t mean like order or laws, but legitimately like the structure of something. A book, a building, a statue, you get what I’m saying.”
“Yes, go on.”
“He’s the Chancellor over the Plentifuls because they’re responsible for building, growing, yada-yada, and he can see if there’s a break in the logic of the structure of something. If there’s a crack in the foundation of a building, a spine in a book is split, or something’s wrong with the roots of a tree, and so on.”
“Oh my gods, so that’s why he was in charge of overseeing the construction of our carriage.”
“Yep.”
“That’s actually fascinating. Do you think I’ll be able to do something like that?”
“I haven’t the first clue. We’ll have to test it out.”
“Yeah, I guess so. Anything else or any other abilities you think I might be able to do?”
