Page 68 of The Gods Order

“Sorry.” She chuckles and I hip-bump her.

“How about emotional barriers?”

Yemi falls quiet, and I’m tempted to groan. Of course she doesn’t jump all over this one. I clear my throat.

“Emotion from its influence.”

“Correct,” he says, flicking his gaze from mine for a moment. “Concealing power is no different. What am I separating?”

“Power and perception,” Yemi says with far more enthusiasm in her answer than I had in mine.

“Perfect. Now that we understand that, I need you to understand this.” He focuses on me intently and I raise a brow.

“Just me?”

“Yes. Yemi has one domain. You have seven.”

Yeah…I’m well aware.

“Obliteration removes. Creation adds. Accord reveals. Chaos accelerates—”

“Consequence enforces, and…” Meridamus trails off before clearing his throat. The tight look on his face screams he wishes he had just kept his mouth shut. “Seduction attracts.”

I hold in the grunt that wants to slip free.

No part of my mind has wrapped around the fact he not only was attracted to that disgusting woman but somehow made a child with her.

After what she did to Derivius…nope, can’t go there.

I tear my gaze from him before he somehow reads my thoughts by the scrunch on my nose.

“You may struggle with this domain, or better yet, this particular ability. Not because you’re weak or can’t control your powers, but because six of your domains encourage you to act upon the realm and think about the outcome of using that power.”

“Well, yeah. The outcome matters. Gods forbid I just whip out my Obliteration and not give a shit what gets turned to ash.”

“Right. The outcome matters. It always matters. The difference is how you reach it.” He breathes a small laugh as my mouth opens and closes. “When you use your Obliteration, you decide what you want gone and your power removes it.”

I nod.

“When you use Creation, you decide what should exist and your power creates it.”

“Recreates it,” I correct. It’s my turn to smirk at his and Meridamus’s confusion. “My power of Creation can’t make just anything out of thin air. I can reshape something that already exists or recreate something that was from the leftover fragments.”

“Huh,” Val grunts. “That limitation was put on the wrong goddess.”

“Yeah, it was,” Kyzen and Meridamus say, then scowl at one another.

Yemi and I bite back our laughs at the awkward standoff.

“Regardless of that, those six domains begin with the same question. What outcome do I want?”

“Pretty reasonable question,” I say.

“It is, but the power of Boundaries asks a different question.”

Great. Of course it does.

“What question?” I ask.