"I’d like to buy a memory," he said. "The one where a god learns to be just a man." Gorusn still carries the nine scars on his left hand. Each one is a trapped shard of Korv’s original power. He uses them sparingly — to heal leviathan-flesh fissures in the Spine, to calm nightmares, to turn aside falling rubble.
He assumed it was his. One evening, a blind woman named Mirelle Skop hired him. She paid with a tooth made of frozen starlight. Gorusn Glin Nomrlri
"You knew," he said.