The Outsider would know, wouldn’t he? Know all about how people work. How they talk. How they hide secrets and skeletons and sins in their back closets and never open them for anyone. After all, wasn’t that the Outsider’s whole game? Watching with those void filled eyes, speaking riddles, like he always knew something that no one else did--that you were simply not strong enough to ever understand?
How long had humans been on in this world, since they had crawled from the sea foam? Corvo didn’t know. But, somewhere, Corvo cared. After all, was he not madly searching for a way to find all the ways a human could live, die, and then live again?
A part of the Emperor despised the Outsider for it. The deity seemed to hold everything just two steps in front of him, always out of reach. A snobbish tone that gave the inclination that the fallen tyrant would never fully understand and it ate at the back of Corvo’s mind like his rats feasted on a body.
The Emperor’s mind was rotting.
The stinking pitch that was dripping from the orifices of his grey matter could more than likely be laid bare to the all-seeing eyes of the god before him.
Corvo continued to pick at the rat skull that was in his hands, carving in the runes that he had studied from ancient tomes drawn in from far off Tyvian shores. Finally, he stopped and glanced upwards to the ancient deity that hovered so close by.
“Must be in their nature. Change is frightening so they just let it sit in squalor and rot, never wondering why they’re in a sinking boat.”