‘I will take folly,’ I said when my turn finally came. ‘I lay claim to the fruits of human frailty.’ They laughed at me, every one of them. What sustenance could I draw from that? Memno mocked me. ‘Thin gruel! A minor god you will be, despised, reviled,’ he said. And he was right, for a time. But I knew. If one draws nourishment from human folly, one will never go hungry.