"Yes, I think they were. But that's just from my head, and who knows if it's true." But she feels confident about it. She remembers very old conversations with people, as they transitioned into something different. She talked them through it, hundreds of years ago. The lack of knowing though, that's the real confusing part.

"Okay, I think to get to the bottom of this, we might want to talk to the others. Maybe they remember what they were before." Julia is coming from a different place, but surely the other gods would recall their lives better than she can for them. "I don't know what that will mean, if we find out they were, but it's better than this ... weird not knowing."