To be fair, Sieh's statement is not without-it becomes apparent-a hefty dose of irony, given the story he is preparing to tell, about which more below. Yet on the evidence of the Inheritance Trilogy, gods just can't help falling into bed with little ol' human us. They're more-or-less immortal beings with countless centuries of life experience, who view people-in the words of godling of childhood Sieh, at the start of The Kingdom of Gods (2011)-"like pets . . . to be indulged and disciplined and loved and kept safe in the finest of cages, on the gentlest of leashes. Nora Jemisin's gods have a complicated relationship with humankind, in both the usual sense and the Facebook "It's Complicated" one.
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