Ninsianna did not meet his gaze.
"She-who-is abandoned me because I disappointed her."
"Did you ever consider She-who-is might not know where you are?"
"But the goddess is all-knowing," Ninsianna said.
"Is that really true?"
Ninsianna remembered the game she'd begun to play when she'd travel into the dreamtime, to gather information without the goddess knowing about it.
"No," Ninsianna said. "The dreamtime is huge. If you are clever, sometimes you can sneak around without her finding out."
"Then perhaps that is what happened to you," Apausha said. "I'm not gifted as you are, but when Lucifer's chief-of-staff captured me, he told me he had made it so Shay'tan wouldn't know I was still alive. There's not much you can hide from the old dragon. If the Evil One can fool Shay'tan, than pe
