“Unlike your word game, the gods aren’t so obvious, which makes their games a lot more interesting to play. I mean, if Elan came right out and said tomorrow you’ll take a walk and be ripped apart by badgers, you’d be terrified and wouldn’t go out, right? So she wouldn’t tell you that. She might drop some hints, but if you didn’t pick up on the clues or couldn’t figure them out…well, that’s not her fault. Anyway, you go, walking into a horrible badger-ripping death because you didn’t know any better. That’s the way gods play their games and why I think we need to talk to the trees. So we aren’t all ripped apart by badgers.”
So far Suri is my favourite character, I think. She talks to trees.