When Sotha Sil left his legs

They looked at the stumps where whole legs had once been. They looked at him, and his unblinking, carefully calm eyes.

"Why?" demanded Almalexia.

"I have walked every path and every way," replied Sotha Sil, "and have left my legs on the threshold of every door so that others may walk on them."

Vivec was almost half startled, but only a quick dart of his left eye betrayed this. Snake-Faced Almalexia was too focused on Sotha Sil to notice anything, but the Observer missed nothing about his pupil turned God; Sotha Sil was silent however. He turned his red eyes toward Almalexia's golden ones. They stared silently at each other, and Sotha Sil eventually relented to the silent command.

"I am no longer amazed at the maze," Sotha Sil continued, "having walked through all the paths of the maze. I am amazed that the maze is a maze, and am amazed that others are not aware of the maze, but wish to help them become amazed at the maze and then transcend their amazement."

"What is at the end of the maze?" Vivec asked, though he fully knew well the answer.

"Divinity," Sotha Sil said, and Almalexia hummed to herself in thought.