"That's all sort of an 'extenuating circumstances' thing, that all plays out eventually. I'm talking about just doing soft and kind things because they're soft and kind."

Remarkably, Zetta didn't make a crack about 'soft' in any other way. "You're a goddess, though, not a demon. You ever decide to go for the ruling biz, you'd be fine doing it your way. So long as no one took it for weakness that you couldn't handle..."

Uh-oh. He trailed off like he'd thought of something.