Look on the bright side, Persephone: a Zetta who was never a book would be terrible at all those things. Every bit of it. No matter how much he refused to admit or acknowledge it, his time as a book had changed him. For the better.

"Yeah, but I like the missions. They're a fun chance to run around and level-grind. Better than sitting around here all day arguing with the rest of the dumbasses on this train about how I can't charge tolls to go through the carriage."