He straightened his shoulders, meeting the god's hollow gaze with a defiance born of absolute desperation. If he were to be a weapon, he would at least know the target.
"If you're going to use me, tell me what you want."
"I want Rex Rexilion addressed," Kaeleth stated. "He has become a disruption in the timeline of this world, a cancer that has exceeded the threshold that the timeline's natural self-correction mechanisms can manage."
"He is an anomaly that refuses to be smoothed away."
"You can't kill him yourself?" Theo asked, knowing the answer but needing to hear it.
"I cannot touch him directly," Kaeleth explained. "He has a patron deity."
"That divine protection creates a barrier I cannot breach without violating the operational code that governs divine activity in the mortal sphere."
"To interfere directly would trigger a celestial conflict that would unravel the very fabric I seek to preserve."
