When the comment that he expected didn't come, Alec started to relax. Risking a glance over at Adam, he was surprised that there wasn't a look of disdain aimed at him. His mother would have criticized him for not being more clever even if she never would have understood electricity or the internet. "Because I'm human? Or was." Maybe Adam hadn't realized that Alec wasn't the avatar that he'd assumed. "I don't know what I am now."

Maybe Adam might eventually have an answer for that, but Alec wasn't sure that he wanted one. He preferred to think of himself as human even if he was immortal. "I think it's because of that." As he spoke he relaxed more, slowly moving toward the shelf that held the books he'd read the first few years he'd been at the temple. "I assumed that the mind can only take so much information and so much change before it causes harm. Or the information on those pages were things that humans weren't meant to know yet."

He pulled one of the older books from the shelf, realizing that it was probably in a long dead language. Maybe Adam would be able to read it because he was the priestess. "Even without the books I can't read, there's lifetimes' worth of knowledge here."