What was your inspiration for that?

Yeah, you know, especially the one chapter where the protagonist is initiated and there's this whole initiation of getting buried, and I won't say too much about it, just in case people want to read it, but he basically gets buried.

Yes, yes.

That was the very last chapter I wrote in the book.

Although it's not the chapter...

And the inspiration, funnily enough, was after I went on a trip, and this was after my short trip, went on a trip to Samothrace, the island of Samothrace, which also has deep spiritual connections and mythological connections and, you know, connections with Aristotle, Alexander the Great, and his parents, and there are these rituals there.

And I was reading about an initiation ritual that happened there.

is really interesting her name is calyx i think i'm getting her name properly and she has some really interesting insights like she just says these really cool things and um what was your inspiration for that character