Now Theo looks extremely uncomfortable. It's not the idea of killing someone for being a monster. He's helped taken monsters down before, human and not. The problem is in his own blood, so to speak.

"First of all, let me preface this by I understand what you're saying. Completely," he begins carefully, picking out his words. "But... I ... there's things that come with being a god in my world, restrictions. And while I'm not a full god yet, I'm inching my way over there. One of those things is that I can't make binding promises. And I won't make a binding promise here, in this place, where there's so much unknown. There might be something here that neither of us know about that could pull you back from that, but if you were to make me promise that, I wouldn't be able to let them do that.

"The second of those things is that gods in my world can't directly take a life. They have to use intermediaries, champions, mortals to do things like that. I'm not really sure what happens if a god were to directly kill someone, but that restriction has been in place for thousands upon thousands of years, so I'm assuming it's for a good reason."