It came to me one day that he might do the impossible sin of killing, or at least trying to kill, The Seer because he couldn’t bear to feel that someone was laughing at him or didn’t believe this idea that he might be divine.
He persuades himself that he is a god, although I’ve never assured myself that he totally believes that.
But once I’d established that idea I had to imagine the kinds of things he might do if he believed himself to be totally different from other men and possibly a god.