Gerard had to give a laugh, because he couldn't even argue with that. He hadn't read them in a while but it seemed like that was a plot point during some part of it.

"Same, really. Stuck with me, though. Parts of it anyway. Guess I also liked the idea that there was some kind of cosmic entity out there that wasn't entirely malicious in nature," Gerard admitted. He couldn't believe in fully benign ones - after everything he'd seen, it simply Wasn't Possible, to the point that he had been taking lessons with Ish for some time and still firmly disbelieved in angels. Something cosmically powerful that was in it's own way petty and selfish but was capable of being kind? That was ... nice. A nice dream.

It didn't exist either, but it didn't stretch his ability to believe like most religions did.