“Physically, I'm fine,” she said, probably a little more curtly than she meant to. So, she amended. “Or, I will be. I'd like to cuff Taweret in the jaw for her smart mouth and I know Enlil would far from stop me, don't even know when or why she showed up -was none of her damn business and I'm sure as shit Bast didn't call for her, but that is what it is.” She sighed and opened the crackers.
Alright, that probably was not reassuring in terms of her temper, so Kasi shoved a cracker in her mouth and took a few deep, calming breaths. She wasn't going to speak again until she'd fully eaten at least three of them.
“Did I ever tell you that I started life as a plant?” She looked away for a moment, out toward the window. “The eight of us were planted there, along the banks where fresh and salt water met... my mother, being the creator of all... took my father's discarded semen from my heartbroken half-sister and all her creatrix energy... and created the eight of us there. To grow. To tempt him. As a vengeful curse because my mother was angry, and you do not anger the creator of all.”
Ninkasi sighed again, ate another cracker, and continued. “So, greedy Enki ate us all, and as the story says... we germinated inside him. That's literal. But man is not built to gestate and give birth. We were killing him, from the inside, as mother planned... until she was commanded to release the curse... at which point we became who we are now... and... my parents got their shit together.” She rolled her eyes.
“But still, at my core, that's what I am. I bend with the wind, I reach to the sun, I weather every storm... and if part of me should break... it will grow back stronger than before. As long as I have my roots and the basic needs for survival, nothing can stand in my way.” It was an oddly philosophical statement from her, an odd moment of showing her years. “Other than being a bit wound up, which is not your doing, I'm alright.” She smiled a bit. “I will weather this... as I did every other one. At least this time there was no command to completely wipe out mankind, right?” This time.
In hindsight, probably the worst joke to try to make.