"Don't you know anything, then? I'll tell you who you are, Aurelia!" the Supreme God boomed, his anger palpable as he stalked forward.
"The rules are inflexible. They cannot be broken," the Library Guardian insisted. "Her punishment remains incomplete, and no one can disregard that."
"Rules? Do you think they still hold sway after she returned to the Heavenly Realm? No! I believe you all played her again, easing her punishment, hoping to dethrone me. I know your petty tricks, and you only exploit them because I lack the power to erase your memories. If I could smite you like others, you wouldn't dare lecture me about rules." He glared at the Guardian, venom spitting from his words.
"Ha! I know you're powerless. That's why she can reappear with the unsettling memory of her first death, even though she forgot it before. But you're right. The gods yearn for her return, for you have become...this thing after she left. Slaughtering gods like they're beasts."