Alabaster continued to sip his tea, frown deepening as he thought. He'd been referred to as many things, but "anomaly" was completely different territory. Though, he visibly perked when she said the magical g-word: Gods. Maybe Grandfather Clock and Mama Engine still held sway over their kingdom, even in this day and age. They were Gods, after all, and he'd been too quick to assume that the rebellion had succeeded in his absence. "I don't mean to backtrack, but which 'gods' would you be referring to?"