[ Cassandra stops for a moment, to articulate her position. She's sure this explanation is especially weird coming from her, someone who never embraced divinity in the same way as others. ]

I never thought I was a literal deity, but...I still believed I could prove shit to people with my powers. That somehow that made me more worth listening to. That was enough to believe in those powers. Once I knew better? That I may as well be like everyone else with some extra cigarette-lighting powers?

[ Speaking of which- she snaps her fingers. The tip of her thumb goes alight for a second, and then goes out. ]

Then it was gone. And none of us knew we could get out of it because everything Ananke had done made us think we couldn't.