[The last dieties that Hermes expects to show up at his door are the Judeo-Christians. They've never quite gotten along for the most obvious of reasons, and one never really gets over the desecration of a temple or sixty. That had been the last time he felt this gross, actually, now that he thinks about it, and he is thinking about it when he says that the door is open and sees who it is. With a roll of his eyes he leans his head back against the armrest of the sofa.]

If this is one big Judeo-Christian pagan genocide, you probably should have picked a better place to start than with the messenger.