And if we refuse to feed them -- well, we can't cut out our hearts. We can't stop feeling just because we want to. If we could, then it still might not help, because if the Null do come, I can't imagine that weak gods are what we want.

Do you know anything about what happened to the killers who were here before? I'm not sure anyone is really mortal so long as Hope is bringing them back. [And he's not sure he should be speaking on mortality anymore anyway, though being killed once and inexplicably brought back is only proof that you can be killed, not that you'll always return.] In Caedra's case, it's a matter of her power.

But the fact that someone has been able to stop her twice means that she's not unbeatable, and there has to be a reason that she hasn't really tried again. Maybe because she knows she can be beaten. She went out hunting for parts of the Door because there was something in it for her: she's trapped here as much as anyone else. So there are limits to her power, and in most ways, her lot is the same as ours. Thinking of that may help in coming up with a plan. Her seeing that people spoke for her may help too, but I don't know how she thinks, I don't know if that matters to her.