[ it's ironic in the way that it's so ironic that he doesn't seem entirely sold. it had been his inclination to believe that there were some gods in this world, but this degree of interference hits a chord for him. this is about the gift of divinity, rather than the direct involvement with mortal lives. ]

Hidden or napping is what I've heard through the grapevine, though these sorts of specifics are difficult discern without a valid source, of course. Even the divine has a few of those. [ there's a draw up of his shoulders and a sigh. ] If it is true, it puts us into quite a different position than first thought, and it puts mortals in the dabbling of the divine.

[ to clarify, he says: ]

Those pharmaceuticals that we were given before we were so graciously dropped off, those were not the work of any god from my own experience.

[ what's worse than the divine? the mortals dabbling in the divine, of course. ]