It was disconcerting, with Set, at first, I think. I didn't put up with it in the beginning.

[ Set had touched him, something Silco had recoiled at violently. He'd reached out for his scar upon first meeting. ]

But the place we were in before had a way of...evening the playing field. We were the only ones willing to make deals, and that... well. I became used to him.

[ He doesn't share the deepest truth, that in Kenos, they were the same in a way that could not be described. Their shards had begun to resonate with one another. ]

Tezcatlipoca was easier. He hated Quetzalcoatl as I did. [ A shrug. ] So when I killed her, it was as if I'd summoned him there personally.