[What, indeed.

It's like he feels it instead of seeing, or remembering, a hitch in a sense given by a god, a stumble-step through universes, like his soul went somewhere his body didn't. What just... happened, what was that--

He takes a breath, tries again.]

Must you hold it together alone? Is there anything we can do to lift the burden? There are even fellow gods on other islands, or magic we have found-- surely, there is something.