Ashencloake… what a name. I wonder about the taste of god-soul and the final conclusion. You have kind of a schizophrenic character here, so I doubt that his voice at the end is all his own. It just seems like feeling the aura of the gods, or tasting the broken god-soul remains as it were, makes an argument against the godlessness one. Your character is still figurine-ing it all out in his somewhat squirrely thoughts. Couldn’t resist a pun.

Some of the most fun I have in writing is coming up with creative names. :)

I expect I’ll be following up on this one, and Germaine’s use of Voices is going to be important. His is an interesting ability, and I think I’m going to have fun figuring out how it affects the world around him.

I found the last line especially interesting. I initially assumed that " never with us" meant that they were against us and had been destroyed for their defiance. Then I thought that “never with us” could have meant that they were prevented from being “with” us by the destruction in the room. Intriguing. I’m still up in the air about what was meant.

It’s neither of those things, actually. This one’s on my docket to further expand.