No, I didn't, but that is exactly the way others of my kind treated humans three hundred years ago, and I've done my best to work to undo their mistakes. Maybe I don't ask permission from my food when I eat it, but perhaps I should.

I do hope that the backlash that Deryni suffered when everything finally came to head is not what will happen here to these small gods.

[Kelson has a thought, and murmurs softly.]

Or perhaps it already has. And they never learned their lesson.