"Oh, you," she says, and she kisses him on the temple. "I love you. Without you I could do nothing at all and I'd still be crying if I'd found out anyway."

"Appearing to worship Isabella doesn't make you look pious, it makes you look idolatrous," Alleluia says. "There are a dozen slips it's easy to make that I've had to cover for - Jehovah instead of Jovah, ship instead of god, calling the songs commands instead of prayers, covering for the ignorance and the cryptic phrasing that comes out of the interface with exactly the right amount of deference so I don't look impudent or as though I serve no function beyond translation."