The Sentinels And if the house just keeps on winning

He knew something of tales.  He pretended like he didn't, but if that was true, he was at least a natural!  Maia was visibly impressed by the question.

I think how things are, she decided.  Good and evil is fun, but it can get old sometimes.  There wasn't a lot of middle ground to the old divide.  You could still introduce fantastical elements behind the question of "why".  She'd already gone that route, when she'd created the story of storms and rough water, and it seemed fitting to continue the theme.

She waited eagerly to see what he came up with, but put her own mind to work too.  She wasn't going to make him do it all on his own.