[Michael brushes off the opinions of most of Eos with a snort.]

If they've never actually met them, then their opinions don't count. Just means the gods have good PR.

[He folds his arms, tilting back in his chair a little.]

I made friends with some humans I was torturing. Supposed to be torturing - I was trying out this whole new thing, didn't really work. Anyway. One of them was a professor of ethics and moral philosophy when he was alive, so we all ended up taking classes from him a few times a week. Then I tried to smuggle them out of the torture zone, kinda didn't work the way I wanted, and things just kept escalating from there. [.....] Things usually keep escalating, for us...