The Historian has inspired a young professor to search for her own truths, while trying to understand the way fiction creates fact and how sometimes the past can only be understood by filling in holes with a new narrative. Together the protégé and the Historian find comfort in each other. Part of their homeland's myth tells of four gods who squabbled and argued and destroyed and rebuilt time and again. By fabricating the exploits of the gods, he could have set a course for certain events to unfold and a particular story to survive today.
|