Sol grunted, accepting the turn of phrase without argument mostly because argument wouldn’t solve anything. God had little enough to do with all of this but Ky was also right, neither did logic.

They both knew what was really up, but that didn’t make it alright.

“Could try other things.” That was probably obvious enough to make it clear that Sol wasn’t waiting for Ky to beg, but he also wasn’t going to say they had to. Ky could try as many other ways as he wanted, since he was the one in a bind.