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That pain was in her heart.

Instead, Corella shakes her head. "Sorry, I just was thinking about the past."

"You don't have to apologize to me," Gabriela tells her. "You're the Hero who saved our country. It's my honor to look after you like this." Sometimes it was hard to say if Gabriela's sincere and almost too innocent personality was a flaw or a positive trait. Anyone could see that Corella was no longer a Hero and yet... Gabriela, the one person who still saw her as one... had to be her caretaker.

That almost felt too cruel. It didn't make her feel good at all.

"Have you heard about the Divine Intervention," Corella inquires. She turns away and frowns, or, at least, she turns away from the direction where she thinks Gabriela is probably standing right now.

"Do you mean when the Gods spoke to you?" Gabriela responds.

What else would she mean? Of course that was it.

Corella sighs. "It wasn't Gods, it was just one God."

"Most people don't really believe that it's true, but everyone knows that I was contacted by a divine presence when I was young," Corella tells her, as if Gabriela wouldn't already know that story. "Well, what do you think about that story? Do you think it's true?"

"Hm... Well..." Gabriela isn't sure how to respond at first. "Wouldn't it be nice if it was true?"

"How so?" Corella asks.

"That means the Gods are looking after us," Gabriela replies. She is probably smiling an all too sweet smile right now. That's the kind of person Gabriela was. Or, at least, that's how Corella imagined she probably was. "They must have known that you had the ability to make a great impact on this war."

"Looking after us? Hah..." Corella thinks about it for a bit. It hadn't seemed that way at the time.

The God she met had seemed flighty, immature, impulsive, and not particularly concerned about the lives of mortals. There were bad things happening all over the world, right, so why did Pelengreer matter any more or less than any other place? Actually, it didn't. Sometimes the Gods just show up somewhere by coincidence, with no particular deciding factor aside from luck.

Or maybe it's for reasons that are above the comprehension of mortals like Corella. But she knew, for sure, that thing hadn't seemed to care that much about the lives of humans. It hadn't come here because it heard her prayers, that her father might be spared. That meeting didn't inspire Corella with faith; Rather the opposite. It had dashed her faith in the Gods and inspired her to start a new campaign where she relied on her own strength and the strength of humanity to push forward.

It was only because the Gods were so fickle, only because Corella learned that she couldn't trust the Gods, that she finally realized the ability to do things on her own without waiting on the Gods to solve all of her problems. That was the only way in which it could say the Divine Intervention had benefited humanity. If that had been done on purpose it was a confusing, convoluted plan, but maybe it did suggest that the Gods were looking out for them.

People like Gabriela, at least, might find comfort in such thoughts.

"Gabriela, you know where the Shrine of Storms is, yes?" Corella asks. She looks back and gives what she thinks is a hopeful look. It was something that she had to put her trust in. Again, relying on herself only, and the strength of humanity. Corella couldn't see what kind of face Gabriela was making, but she had to trust that it was the right kind of face. "Have you been there before?"

"I know where it is," Gabriela says. "But I haven't been there. Why...-"
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