Au where everythings the same but all the lyctors call each other bestie instead of brother and sister
“Why would the emperors own lyctors hate him?”
“Augustine the First,” said the man who was God, and the God who was man. “My first saint. My first hand, and fist, and gesture. Will you swear your loyalty to me again, clean slate, fresh start? Or not?”
He murmured, “You said there was no forgiveness.”
“‘I pardon him, as God shall pardon me,’” said the Emperor. “Come, swear your loyalty, my son—my brother—beloved—Lyctor—Bestie.”
