"We have a word for it. Chosen. Means a god's singled you out, for one reason or another. Decided to favor you, and everything that ends up meaning when you get tethered. Changing you with their power."

Not that all of them were malevolent, or fear related in her world. Some gods had leagues fight for that glory and honor, to be blessed. Set apart from the rest, wielding the divine and executing their will upon the land. But that's hardly a point to be making right now.

"Not like you can go and tell them no, when they make that choice."

She's. Working up to the most tangled part of it. The question Daisy asked and did not ask. What are you?