This isn't about my goddamn pain. [ The snarl is back, but his tone is more annoyed than anything. ] This is about fixing a problem I didn't even know existed until just now.

[ It must be his most important memory, he thinks. Why else would it have been the one thing to break through whatever blocks the higher-up gods put in place inside his head? ]

If you're so concerned about pain then take your name off me, so you don't have to feel it anymore.